Quote Originally Posted by KenDawe
Re-inventing the Early Bird? Or institutionalizing it?
(And is it true that the Early Bird has been politicized in the last 5 years?)
A bit more than the Early Bird.
Quote Originally Posted by DNI
In executing the National Strategy for Open Source, the Center will be a comprehensive Intelligence Community Center focused on all open sources, to include the Internet, databases, press, radio, television, video, geospatial data, photos, and commercial imagery. The Center's functions will include collection/acquisition; open source analysis and research; centralized training; and facilitation of government-wide access and exploitation.
Extensive details are available in a couple of documents that have been uploaded to AKO KC Intelligence Reference Files, for those with an account.