The article continues the author’s series on applied analytics in publicadministration and law.Due to the objectivelydetermined complexityof the subject-object areas of state regulation and publicadministration, as well as the resulting complexity of state regulation and administration itself, the author argues for the necessity of using situational analytics and situation centers in public administration.The paper presents the author’s concept for explaining the technology to achieve predictive situational awareness through describing a sequence of complex active cognitive actions: 1) visualization of the future; 2) scenarios of the future; 3) predictive situational-scenario modeling and predictive-projective representation of the future events in their diverse possible variations.The study provides a detailed description of the positions that represent the functional-target load of a situation analysis center.The author presents the theoretical basis for understanding and interpreting the theories of distributed cognition, distributed situational awareness, and distributed situation centers and shows their significance. The research is based on applying the research methods of analysis and synthesis, induction, deduction and abduction, generalization, classification and modeling, approximation,and formalization.After conducting the research,the author was able to uncover the meaning and fundamental descriptive qualities of situation analytics and evaluate its potential.
