AFCEA Intelligence - The Association for Intelligence Professionals

Purpose
The AFCEA Intelligence Committee is a volunteer group of public and private sector intelligence professionals that oversees AFCEA's Intelligence outreach.

The Committee provides an active focal point within AFCEA for encouraging the exchange of ideas and coordinating AFCEA’s intelligence-related activities.

Specifically, the Committee:

Strengthens AFCEA Intelligence’s role as the Association’s principal intelligence advocate and resource, making available to the AFCEA membership worldwide its understanding of intelligence – and making available to the Community the interests and capabilities of AFCEA’s individual and corporate members.
Supports AFCEA and its membership by preparing, reviewing, approving and/or making recommendations for intelligence symposia, intelligence-related course material for use in the AFCEA Professional Development Program, projects, white papers, etc.
Conducts at least two classified intelligence symposia annually.
Promotes AFCEA membership and support within the Community.
Supports SIGNAL Magazine by encouraging and contributing ideas for intelligence-related articles and interviews.
Oversees AFCEA’s annual intelligence recognition programs (e.g., intelligence awards and an essay contest).

Chairman's News

Intelligence Committee Chairman's Greeting

Committee News

Press Release: Committee Deputy Chairman

Press Release: Committee Chairman and New Members

Notes on Intelligence

Notes on Intelligence is series of occasional opinion pieces on intelligence-related issues written by a member of the AFCEA Intelligence Committee.

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Committee Membership
Chairman:

Dr. Bill Nolte

Research Professor

Director, Center for Intelligence Research and Education

School of Public Policy

University of Maryland

Deputy Chairman:

Ms. Maureen Baginski

President

National Security Systems Sector

SPARTA, Inc.

Chairmen Emeriti:
Lt Gen C. Norman Wood, USAF (Ret.) (1992 - 1995)
Brig Gen Billy Bingham, USAF (Ret.) (1995 - 1998)
Maj Gen Rich O'Lear, USAF (Ret.) (1998 - 2001)
Dr. Mark Lowenthal (2001 - 2004)
Mr. Timothy Sample (2004 - 2005)
Mr. John (Jay) Rixse (2005 - 2006)

Mr. Chris Haakon (2006 - 2009)

Member Roster

Committee Membership Application
Once a year, in the April - July timeframe, the AFCEA Intelligence Committee solicits new private sector members to fill slots of retiring members.

Government Committee members do not stand for election, but are appointed by their organizations in a separate process.

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Events
AFCEA Intelligence is perhaps best known for its annual fall and spring classified symposia for U.S. intelligence professionals in government and industry. For the last fifteen years, these events have sold out every time they have been held.

Current Events:

The next AFCEA Intelligence events will be NGA Industry Day on April 1, 2010; followed by the Spring Intelligence Symposium taking place on April 21-22, 2010.

Past Events:

2009 Fall Intelligence Symposium

2009 Spring Intelligence Symposium

2008 Fall Intelligence Symposium

2008 NGA Industry Day

2008 Spring Intelligence Symposium

2007 Counterintelligence Conference

White Papers
As part of its ongoing outreach to the Intelligence Community, the AFCEA Intelligence Committee has prepared a series of white papers intended to contribute to a national discussion about ways to strengthen the contribution intelligence makes to our nation's security and to address the growing need for intelligence to function within the evolving operational concepts of defense, homeland security and the other components of national security.

We encourage you to provide feedback regarding our published white papers. At the end of each paper, you will find an online survey.

Latest:

The Intelligence Community: New Challenges, Sources, and Methods

Fall 2009

Congress and the Intelligence Community: Rebuilding Trust

Spring 2009

Intelligence Support to Critical Infrastructure Protection

Fall 2008

Enabling a Responsive and Agile Intelligence Enterprise

Spring 2008

Information Sharing and Collaboration: Planning, Budgeting, and Execution
Fall 2007

The Need to Share: The U.S. Intelligence Community and Law Enforcement

Spring 2007 - 834 KB