A Day in the Life of a Search and Discovery Analyst (when working on a crisis situation)
Surge Team Participation: Nyah is a senior SDA on a Surge Team, working on crisis situations where priorities change very quickly. She stays updated with the latest analytic techniques and collaborates with the Agency's extended enterprise.
Situational Awareness: During a surge, Nyah maintains situational awareness by understanding ongoing events, customer needs, intelligence gaps, required resources, and analyst responsibilities while producing reports and managing customer feedback.
Search and Discovery: Nyah employs various search tools and datasets to answer customer questions. She analyzes questions, identifies intelligence gaps, selects appropriate search tools, and iteratively crafts queries to find answers or relevant information.
Data Analysis: Nyah examines query results, finding key elements, identifying trends, anomalies, baselines, and connections to the bigger picture. This helps her understand unfamiliar data and better serve customers' needs.
Reporting and Dissemination: When encountering unfamiliar data, Nyah looks it up in past reports or technical reference databases. She then bundles the information in a digital workflow tool and sends it for translation, reporting, and dissemination to customers.
Intelligence Analyst(IA)
