1 October 2024

‘Everyone Is Using OSINT’—That’s Why There Shouldn’t Be an IC Agency for It, Experts Argu

Charles Lyons-Burt

As is evident from the modern way battles have been waged in Ukraine and elsewhere, warfare and military relations are becoming increasingly driven by technology and data. If we engage in a conflict with near-peer or peer adversaries like China down the line, “data is going to be key to that” too, predicted Brad Ahlskog, chief of the Open-Source Intelligence Integration Center within the Defense Intelligence Agency. 

“From where I sit, in 10 years, the [Intelligence Community] will be much more focused on the data, more so than the actual source of the data,” Ahlskog continued. He was musing on how the perception of open-source intelligence — a.k.a. OSINT, information extracted from readily available sources like the internet or any public domain — is evolving at a fast clip. The federal executive participated in a panel discussion about OSINT and artificial intelligence as industry enablers at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 Intel Summit on Thursday.

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