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Methods for Facilitating Greater Access by Intelligence Agencies to S&T Expertise

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The Intelligence Community Studies Board will conduct two workshops with presenters across a wide range of technical disciplines aimed toward increasing government awareness of technologies that might pose threats of disruptive strategic surprise. The presentations will focus on areas where the convergence of two or more sciences or technologies have a reasonable potential to result in capabilities that might threaten US national security.

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The National Academies will form a committee of technical experts from across a wide range of technical disciplines in academia, industry, and government to organize at least two workshops to discuss developments in science and technology (S&T) that might lead to, or help to mitigate the risk of, strategic surprise in the area of national security. The workshops will also facilitate giving the agencies of the federal Intelligence Community (IC) S&T expertise that will help the IC avoid strategic surprise resulting from advances in S&T. The unclassified portions of the task will consider experience from government and the private sector; both domestic and foreign. Classified activities would require participants to be US citizens and holders of valid security clearances.

This task will focus on:

  1. Facilitating insights from academic and industrial communities

Helping to develop insights into global research to include nations of interest and nonstate actors

Contributors

Committee

Chair

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Caryn Leslie

Staff Officer

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Other, Federal

Staff

Caryn Leslie

Lead

Dionna Ali

Cherie Chauvin

Nathaniel DeBevoise

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