TY - JOUR
T1 - Analytic Outreach for Intelligence
T2 - Insights from a Workshop on Emerging Biotechnology Threats
AU - Vogel, Kathleen M.
AU - Knight, Christine
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the US National Science Foundation [grant number 1229919] and by the UK Economic and Social Research Council [grant number RES-145-28-0005].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2015/9/3
Y1 - 2015/9/3
N2 - This article describes a new effort to engage in analytic outreach between academic scholars and intelligence analysts on the issue of emerging biotechnology threats to US national security. The context of this outreach was a September 2012 meeting in London to explore possibilities for enhanced analytic outreach in relation to emerging biotechnology threats, supported by the UK Genomics Policy and Research Forum. This meeting consisted of a mix of current and former intelligence practitioners and policy officials, and social science and scientific experts, from both the UK and the US. As will be described below, this unique pairing of experts and subjects revealed new insights into how to improve intelligence assessments on biotechnology and bioweapons threats. It also revealed continuing challenges in reforming assessments within existing intelligence work routines.
AB - This article describes a new effort to engage in analytic outreach between academic scholars and intelligence analysts on the issue of emerging biotechnology threats to US national security. The context of this outreach was a September 2012 meeting in London to explore possibilities for enhanced analytic outreach in relation to emerging biotechnology threats, supported by the UK Genomics Policy and Research Forum. This meeting consisted of a mix of current and former intelligence practitioners and policy officials, and social science and scientific experts, from both the UK and the US. As will be described below, this unique pairing of experts and subjects revealed new insights into how to improve intelligence assessments on biotechnology and bioweapons threats. It also revealed continuing challenges in reforming assessments within existing intelligence work routines.
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U2 - 10.1080/02684527.2014.887633
DO - 10.1080/02684527.2014.887633
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84938415278
SN - 0268-4527
VL - 30
SP - 686
EP - 703
JO - Intelligence and National Security
JF - Intelligence and National Security
IS - 5
ER -