The game is changing for the Intelligence Community (IC) and for businesses and academia that support it. Transformations in global political, economic, social, and technological spheres are occurring with unprecedented speed and complexity. Many carry ramifications of strategic importance. The nation’s intelligence community and its industrial base are charged with observing, understanding and assessing the emerging world so that decisi...

During the first decade of the 21st century, threats to U.S. national security have changed dramatically while the volume, variety and availability of information concerning these threats has grown at an unprecedented rate. These changes have presented extraordinary challenges for the Intelligence Community (IC) analytic effort and have greatly increased the importance of timely and coherent cross-agency collaboration. The 31st annual AFCEA Sp...