Saturday, November 26, 2005

DNI Open Source Center Established

In case you missed the press release from earlier this month, the IC has opened the doors of the new national OSINT center:
Based at the CIA, the Center will advance the Intelligence Community’s exploitation of openly available information to include the Internet, databases, press, radio, television, video, geospatial data, photos and commercial imagery. The Center’s functions will include collection, analysis and research, training and information technology management to facilitate government-wide access and use. The Center will build on the established expertise of the CIA’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), which has provided the U.S. Government a broad range of highly valued products and services since 1941. The Director of the CIA will administer the Center on behalf of the DNI.

2 Comments:

At 10:47 AM, December 12, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where is this new Center located? Do they have a website?

 
At 11:39 AM, December 12, 2005, Blogger redline said...

Their website is the former FBIS site, but as far as I can tell it's not open to the public. (I guess you might qualify for an account if you have OSIS access -- I don't.) Physically I would imagine that it lives at CIA in the FBIS spaces, though who knows.

Last week they appointed a new Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open Source, who comes from the private sector, so things may change as they get off the ground.

 

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