Panel warns that US spy R&D isn’t keeping pace
From the post:
U.S. technological superiority in areas like cyber security and cryptography are eroding along with other segments of that nation’s R&D base, a new report warns.
In its study released on Nov. 5, the National Commission for the Review of the Research and Development of program of the U.S. Intelligence Community found that unnamed adversaries are leveraging their science and technology R&D in areas critical to intelligence gathering and cyber security. Among the areas identified in an unclassified report were cryptography, cyber attack and defense along with “all-source data analytics,” or data mining.
“Exacerbating these challenges are U.S. policies that weaken the U.S. R&D talent base,” the report warned. “As scientific and technical knowledge and the resulting economic growth spread around the world, the competition for R&D talent is increasingly global.”
Among the panel’s recommendations were shoring up the U.S. R&D base through focused investment while improving coordination of R&D activities within the U.S. intelligence community.The panel also found that U.S. spy agencies are failing to exploit non-military R&D that could be used to discern enemy capabilities and intentions as well as to counter the theft of American intellectual property.
Honest:
National Commission for the Review of the Research and Development of program of the U.S. Intelligence Community
is the name on the cover of the report.
The entire file is forty-five (45) pages but only fifteen (15) have any new and/or substantive content.
Use this report for buzz words or phrases to use in proposals or comments.
The oddest point made by the commission reads:
The global spread of scientific and technical knowledge challenges U.S. national security. It threatens to erode essential capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and the strength of the U.S. R&D base. (emphasis added)
A very sad view of the world.
Country N can’t be secure if scientific and technical knowledge spreads.
Greater equality in knowledge and technology could slow some of the adventurism that threatens the world as a whole.