DISCIPLE‐LTA: ANALYST’S COGNITIVE ASSISTANT Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Cindy Ayers, Dorin Marcu, Vu Le, Cristina Boicu, Marcel Barbulescu Disciple‐LTA is a personal cognitive assistant to an intelligence analyst that addresses several systemic problems associated with the current analytic process related to effective analytic assistance, capturing of analytic expertise, and tutoring new analysts. Disciple‐LTA can rapidly acquire and maintain analytic expertise which currently takes years to establish, is lost when analysts separate from service, and is costly to replace. It can help an analyst to rapidly find solutions to complex analytical problems, share intelligence, collaborate with complementary experts and their agents, and report results of research. It can also help new intelligence analysts learn the reasoning processes involved in making intelligence judgments and solving intelligence analysis problems. While presenting an overview of all these capabilities of Disciple‐LTA, this paper concentrates on the analytic assistance provided to an end‐user. RESEARCH REPORT 1 VOLUME 2007