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    CIA's Former Head of Science and Tech: In New Space Race, U.S. is Falling Behind

    CIA's Former Head of Science and Tech: In New Space Race, U.S. is Falling Behind

    FromIntelligence Matters

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    CIA's Former Head of Science and Tech: In New Space Race, U.S. is Falling Behind

    FromIntelligence Matters

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    Length:
    38 minutes
    Released:
    Dec 11, 2018
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    In this week's episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Glenn Gaffney, current Executive Vice President of strategic intelligence investor In-Q-Tel and former head of the CIA's Science and Technology Directorate. Morell and Gaffney discuss space as an area of strategic, scientific, intelligence and military competition with Russia and China, and assess the United States' current positioning. They also review existing and future cyber threats to the U.S., which Gaffney explains are expanding and evolving with alarming rapidity.
    Released:
    Dec 11, 2018
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (100)

    In Intelligence Matters, former acting Director of the CIA Michael Morell, speaks with top leaders of the U.S. intelligence community as they reflect on their life, career and the critical roles they play in shaping national security policies. (154991) As a central figure in the most significant U.S. counter-terror efforts of the past two decades and a former CIA intelligence analyst, Morell is uniquely skilled at taking industry leading knowledge to make connections that provide deep insight into complex security events – helping decode intelligence officials’ key priorities and providing perspectives on how to achieve national security objectives. Morell is the author of “The Great War of Our Time” and a vivid account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life in secrets, and a war in the shadows.