Blogs
To nurture discussion among and for intelligence professionals, AFCEA Intelligence sponsors two Blogs. In the MAZZ-INT Blog, career intelligence professional Joe Mazzafro provides opinion pieces designed to stimulate discussion about issues of importance to the Intelligence Community.
Read the MAZZ-INT Blog
The Small Business Intelligence Blog is written by small business consultant Dan Callahan and provides tips, insights, and recommendations for small businesses wanting to break into or expand business with the Intelligence Community.
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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 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
Previous:
Congress and the Intelligence Community: Rebuilding Trust
Intelligence Support to Critical Infrastructure Protection
Enabling a Responsive and Agile Intelligence Enterprise
Information Sharing and Collaboration: Planning, Budgeting, and Execution
The Need to Share: The U.S. Intelligence Community and Law Enforcement
The Last Tactical Mile...and the First
Lessons Learned: Building a New National Intelligence Partnership
Intelligence: The Way Forward
Making Analysis Relevant: It's More than Connecting the Dots
Intelligence and the New National Security Environment
National Security and Horizontal Integration
Writing Contest
AFCEA Intelligence and the Naval Intelligence Professionals/Naval Intelligence Foundation (NIP/NIF) have joined forces to sponsor two annual writing contests!
The contests provide intelligence professionals with opportunities to express themselves on topics of importance to the Intelligence Community and national security.
2008 Winning Essay
The 2008 AFCEA Intelligence winning essay was submitted by Mr. Christopher Zinner and is entitled “Developing Tomorrow’s Intelligence Analyst: A New Plan for High Performance in the Intelligence Community.” For his paper, Mr. Zinner received $2,000 and a two-year AFCEA membership. His essay also will be published in SIGNAL Magazine, AFCEA’s monthly journal.
Read the 2008 winning essay
Read previous winning essays
Small Business Outreach
Over 70% of AFCEA’s almost 1,800 corporate members are small businesses. That makes assisting small businesses a top priority for the Association.
On June 17, 2009, the AFCEA Intelligence and Small Business Committees hosted a morning session on doing business with the Intelligence Community. It was a sold-out event and featured key Agency CIOs and Small Business Advocates.
Review the agenda
Watch a video of the session
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Articles
In partnership with SIGNAL Magazine, the award winning monthly journal of AFCEA International, AFCEA Intelligence provides a compendium of intelligence-related articles and features.
RSS Feed
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Courses
In addition to its annual classified symposia and in conjunction with the AFCEA Education Foundation, AFCEA Intelligence offers a number of intelligence and intelligence-related courses.
One in particular is very popular and provides an introduction to intelligence and the Intelligence Community. This course is lead by Dr. Mark Lowenthal, known to many in the Intelligence Community and a past chairman of the AFCEA Intelligence Committee.
Scholarships
With generous financial support from Terremark Worldwide Inc., Mosaic Inc., Computer Sciences Corporation, and Sparta Inc. AFCEA Intelligence and the AFCEA Educational Foundation have five scholarships aimed at undergraduate and graduate students pursuing academic degrees in global security, intelligence studies, and/or foreign languages. The undgraduate scholarships are worth $2,250 each and the graduate scholarships are worth $5,000 each.
These intelligence scholarships complement the AFCEA Educational Foundation’s existing academic outreach in the hard sciences. In conjunction with AFCEA chapters worldwide, the AFCEA Educational Foundation annually distributes over $1.5 million dollars in grants and scholarships!
INTELLIGENCE SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION DEADLINE: 1 DEC 09
Learn more about applying for the AFCEA Intelligence scholarships
Read the bios of the 2009 scholarship winners:
Undergraduate Recipients
Graduate Recipients
NightWatch
NightWatch is an executive level intelligence recap drawn from domestic and international reporting and is provided as a service by AFCEA Intelligence.
Mr. John McCreary is the NightWatch editor. John spent 38 years serving the Department of Defense Intelligence as a strategic analyst, most of that time in the Directorate of Intelligence (J2) office of the Joint Staff serving the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and the Secretary of Defense.
Click here to read the latest issue of NightWatch.
AFCEA Intelligence's Newsletter
Intelligence Watch is an online newsletter is designed to keep you informed of activities and services supporting Intelligence Professionals. A new newsletter is released quarterly.
Fall 2009 Intelligence Watch Newsletter
Related Websites
AFCEA Intelligence maintains a compendium of intelligence-related links.
