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(U) Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) & Innovation

in the Intelligence Community
Andrew Roberts
Senior Defense Intelligence Analyst for Open Source Strategies, PDD/II
24 JUNE 2014

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(U) The Emerging Security Environment

(U) Pace and nature of security events increasingly

difficult to assess

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images

AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER KHUDOTEPLY

(U) Governments no longer have decisive

information edge AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER KHUDOTEPLY

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(U) The Emerging Security Environment

e-consulta.com

(U) Potential adversaries,

terrorists and international
criminals taking full advantage
of globalization benefits
(U) Insufficient surveillance
and inadequate access to
trouble spots a growing
Cartel narco
concern submarine & design

(U) Information environment

is shades of gray
Difficult to discern
friendly, neutral, and
adversary Photo from Insight Crime

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(U) Information Technologies & the Internet

(U) Rapid advances in communications, transportation, and

information set the stage
Information

Storage, Interface Ingest, Storage,

Storage & & Analysis Interface, Analysis,
Storage Interface & Share

70s 80s 80s 90s 90s 00s 00s 10s

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(U) Information Technologies & the Internet

(U) The internet and IT tools revolutionizing open source

intelligence
Access
(U) The Internet in 60 Seconds
Content
200+ e-mails sent
Flow
nearly 600 websites created
Quality
50-75K+ social networking
Automation posts
75-100hrs of video uploaded
Nearly 300K social networking
microblogs/texts

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(U) Priorities, Focus, & Collaboration

(U) Goal: Weather the data storm and keep DIA on the right course

(U) Innovation is vital to harnessing the deluge of

information and taking advantage of new technologies

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(U) Priorities, Focus, & Collaboration

(U) Public and private partnerships critical to focusing

intelligence efforts
Increase capacity of analysis & efficiency of OSINT
Enable force multipliers
Take advantage of other boots on the ground

(U) Always vigilant on security & mindful of authorities

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(U) Priorities, Focus, & Collaboration

(U) IARPA Open Source Indicators (OSI) Program

Promoting information discovery
Managing information inundation

(U) The OSI Program aims to develop methods for

continuous, automated analysis of publicly available data
Anticipating and/or detecting significant events
Fusing early warning indicators of events from multiple
publicly available data sources

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