Ian Fitzgerald is an M.A. student in International Security at George Mason University with research interests in Great Power Competition, Cyber Warfare, Emerging Technologies, Russia and China. ACADEMIC INCUBATOR -- The explosion of data available to today's analysts creates a compelling need to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into intelligence work. The objective of the Intelligence Community (IC) is to analyze, connect, apply context, infer meaning, and ultimately, make analytical judgments based on that data. The data explosion offers an incredible source of potential information, but it also creates issues for the IC. Today's intelligence analysts find themselves working from an information-scarce environment to one with an information surplus.

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In a world where globalization makes it possible for adversaries to compete with American technologies, the United States must consistently innovate and adopt new tools and methods to stay ahead in the national security space. That was the message at a special panel held at Georgetown University on Monday, called "The Future of Innovation in National Security." It featured five panelists across the security space from the Pentagon, the Intelligence Community, and the private sector. The panel discussion was an extension of a course at Georgetown University called "Hacking 4 Defense" – for which The Cipher Brief is a media sponsor – which aims to use new methodology to find solutions to real national security challenges identified by U.S. government agencies. The key question of this endeavor was: "how we do gain advantage by not playing the same game that has been played before" and "force [the enemy] to engage with a different set of rules," said Milo Medin, Vice President of Access Services at Google and a member of the Defense Innovation Board, an initiative set up by former Defense Secretary Ash Carter in 2016.