The OSINT Foundation, which serves as an U.S. Intelligence Community open-source intelligence (OSINT) and as an educational resource for the general public, announced the inaugural award of the Markowitz Intelligence Community OSINT Advocate Award to Lt. Gen. Laura Potter, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, United States Army.
The award recognizes the U.S. intelligence community senior leader who has advanced the OSINT discipline, demonstrated advocacy of the OSINT practitioner profession, and has taken steps to establish or strengthen a program of record for the discipline in their agency.
According to the OSINT Foundation, Lt. Gen. Potter, aided by her OSINT leadership, led the professionalization and maturation of OSINT in the Army Intelligence and security Enterprise by directing the creation of an Army OSINT Strategy. Furthermore, Lt. Gen. Potter reestablished an active role with the Department of Defence’s American, British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand (ABCANZ) SENSE OSINT Project Team to develop an interoperability report , requiring baseline OSINT training across all military intelligence occupational specialties for enlisted, warrant and commissioned officers.
Lt. Gen. Potter effectively advocated for the OSINT practitioner profession within the Army by shepherding the creation of more than 200 military OSINT positions over a five- year program build, and advocated for an Additional Skill Identifier (ASI) for OSINT, according to the foundation.
Joseph Markovitz served as the first Director of the Community Open Source Program Office (COSPO), whose mission is to facilitate more effective use of open sources in the intelligence community, according to his obituary. Markovitz dramatically advanced the Intelligence Community’s OSINT capabilities, the foundation added.
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