ODNI to Hold Conference on Open Source Intelligence
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is sponsoring a public conference on open source intelligence in Washington, DC on July 16-17.
“The conference will raise awareness about open source and encourage information sharing among the Intelligence Community and its partners in academia, think tanks, private industry, and with federal, state, local and tribal entities and international partners.”
“The two-day conference will host participants from local, national, and international organizations from both the public and private sector.”
“The conference is free and open to the public.”
“There will be free food,” added organizer Theresa Sciacchetano seductively.
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