# Automated Decision Support
**Entity class:** Legal, Policy, Privacy, And Analytic-Limits Layer concept
**Automated Decision Support** is a decision-and-collection concept used to select actions or observations that improve a consequential judgment. Used correctly, Automated Decision Support supports conditional inference and collection planning without promoting proximity, exposure, or model output into proof.
## Counterterrorism predictive-graph role
Its controls are part of the computational trust fabric, not peripheral paperwork: permissions, provenance, purpose, and auditability must remain machine-enforceable across systems. The analytic state should distinguish ground truth, observed evidence, inferred state, and predicted state.
## Relationships
- **domain router:** [[wiki/Intelligence Oversight|Intelligence Oversight]].
- **ontology neighbors:** [[wiki/Algorithmic Bias|Algorithmic Bias]] and [[wiki/Human-in-the-Loop|Human-in-the-Loop]].
- **synthesis:** [[wiki/Counterterrorism Predictive Graph|Counterterrorism Predictive Graph]] and [[wiki/Predictive Intelligence Loop|Predictive Intelligence Loop]].
## Sources
- [NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, Release 5.2.0, August 27, 2025](https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/final)
- [ODNI — ICD 503, Intelligence Community Information Technology Systems Security Risk Management, September 15, 2008](https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICD/ICD_503.pdf)
**As of:** 2026-09-23