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Virtual Panel Discussion with Congressman Jim Himes on Investment and Innovation in the Intelligence Community

Nov 18, 2020
11:00am to 12:00pm ET


On Wednesday, November 18, 2020, CNAS hosted a virtual discussion featuring Congressman Jim Himes and other panelists about the future of innovation and investment in the intelligence community (IC). Congressman Himes, Chairman of the Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research (STAR) Subcommittee of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, discussed the Subcommittee's new report, Rightly Scaled, Carefully Open, Indefinitely Agile: Reconfiguring to Win the Innovation Race in the Intelligence Community. This report details the need for investment and innovation in the intelligence community in order to retain America's global competitiveness.

Watch:

Featuring:

Congressman Jim Himes (D-CT)
Chair
Strategic Technologies and Advanced Research Subcommittee
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
U.S. House of Representatives

Michael Brown
Director of the Defense Innovation Unit
U.S. Department of Defense

Corin Stone
Scholar-in-Residence, Washington College of Law
American University
Former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Strategy & Engagement
Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Moderated by:

Martijn Rasser
Senior Fellow, Technology and National Security
Center for a New American Security

With introductory remarks from:

Carrie Cordero
Robert M. Gates Senior Fellow
Center for a New American Security