One of the subtle, yet constant needs people have always had has been the need to know. Historically, that need has given rise to the birth of intelligence as a discipline; all the way from Sun Tzu and the Roman frumentarii to the romantic James Bond and high-tech satellites, we still have that need to [...]

This article was written by Garrett Trent, Class of 2015, for Professor Mulligan as part of a series focusing on the importance of the various INTs to the Intelligence Community. The Importance of OSINT To The Intelligence Community Introduction The U.S. government has always been fond of open source intelligence (OSINT) (Johnson, 2010, p. 2). It has been around [...]

A Global Intelligence Alliance (GIA) White Paper on the future of market intelligence has highlighted growth regions in the field, emphasizing that “processing and translating local language business information will most likely consume more resources in the future.” The regions with most likely CI growth were Greater China, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. For the [...]

The Global Intelligence Alliance (GIA), a global strategic market intelligence and advisory group, has experienced especially strong growth for new CI software installations since 2010 and anticipates this trend to continue through 2012 and 2013. GIA attributes increasing sales of CI software to demand from the manufacturing, financial, energy, and retail sectors in North America. [...]

October 20, 2011 The Cyber Threat Some of the  most critical threats facing our nation today emanate from the cyber realm. We’ve  got hackers out to take our personal information and money, spies who want to  steal our nation’s secrets, and terrorists who are looking for novel ways to  attack our critical infrastructure. President  Obama [...]

Thomson Reuters on October 29, 2011, announced the launch of Thomson Reuters CortellisTM, the next generation solution for the life sciences industry that brings together the company’s best-in-class drug research and development data and the latest information management technology, to transform the way pharma and biotech professionals access and use data across the entire drug research and [...]

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies have increased their competitive intelligence (CI) budgets in the U.S. by an average 62 percent over the last four budget cycles, according to a new study conducted by Cutting Edge Information. The study, “Strategic Pharmaceutical Competitive Intelligence,” found that competitive intelligence       budgets rose from just under $1.07 million [...]