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National Intelligence Estimate

With the NIE that came out today, the media followed McConnell over the DNI Open Source Conference 2007. There was definitely a larger presences. Here are some of the related stories I found.

WTOP:Analysts Scour ‘Net for Signs of Emerging Threats
AP: al – Qaida Plots New Attacks on U.S. Soil
ABC: (AP copy) NIE Video
Yahoo: Photos/Video

Mrs. Mary Margaret Graham, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Collection

Mrs. Graham is introduced by Mr. Jardines.
Mrs. Graham states that everyone, all of the players (media, analysts,academics, etc) have a role in Open Source. She wants to know about the capabilities of Open Sources that may not have previously identified.
Open Source gives a viewpoint that is not secret. If we can do Open Source right, [...]

Press Coverage

The following media outlets (among others) have covered portions or all of the conference and more information can be found on their websites, publications and newscasts:

The New York Times
CSPAN
FOX News
CNN
ABC News
The New Yorker
The Washington Post
US News and World Report
NBC

Dr. Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis

Mr. Jardines introduces Dr. Fingar.

Dr. Fingar states that intelligence today is a lot harder to be an analyst today than in the Cold War. The two sides were defined. Today the number of countries and local level politics and many other examples need to be identified in order to answer questions by policy makers in [...]

Beyond Simple Searching

The moderator for this panel is Eric Haseltine, Associate Director of National Intelligence for Science and Technology, ODNI
The panel:

John Howard, Deputy Associate Director of Enterprise Solutions (Intelink), Office of the Chief Information Officer, ODNI
James Mulvenon, Director, Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis, Defense Group Inc.
Francis Kubala, Scientist, BBN Technologies
Jason Hines, Principal Search Engineer, Google

Dr. Haseltine [...]

Libraries of the Future

The moderator for this session is Dan Carrigan, Chair of the IC Librarian’s Consortium.
The panel consists of:

Chuck Henry, President, Council on Library and Information Resources
David L. Osbourne, Head, Research Section, Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
Richard James King, Chief Librarian of the Ruth H. Hooker Research Library, Naval Research Laboratory
Diane J. White, NSA Librarian, National [...]

Director of National Intelligence, J. M. McConnell

Open Source – The Source of First Resort
Mrs. Mary Margaret Graham introduces Mr. McConnell.

Mr. McConnell states that this speech is from the heart. He gives an overview of the community. He wants to leave the community with a much higher level of collaboration. We achieve considerably more when we work together. He describes the tension [...]

Alex Halavais

Alex has good coverage of the event on his blog.
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Academia Outreach

Agenda
Karl stared off with a joke about how where he’s from they have some of the best gated communities around. (He the Director, Foreign Military Studies Office, Ft. Leavenworth).
From this session and the Academia Panel session, seems more universities are creating more programs geared toward a ‘Intelligence Analyst-type degree’.
Ron Sanders, Chief Human Capital Officer, defines [...]