For the study of intelligence where he was the deputy director. He began his career in the cia, it age s you if i say in 192772. After two years in the United States army, also with the u. S. Military command in vietnam. Since his retirement from cia he was also National Security and teaches at Georgetown School for service. He is also a founding Advisory Board member at the International Spy museum, here since the beginning. Hes the author of a new book, the foundation of the cia harry truman, the missouri gang and the origins of the cold war. Youre not here to listen to me talk, so, thanks, rick, for coming out. [ applause ] and thank you all for coming out when you could be over at the Christmas Market across the street. I appreciate that. As vince said, ive been a cia officer for running on to 50 years now. And for the last 20 years i taught intelligence courses at Georgetown School of foreign service. And in teaching there at georgetown, ive discovered as well as from participatin
Continue those discussions as well. Inwhat was your experience the cloud sector and smart grid sector tell you that will end up looking like . Probably the most maturing right now is the discussions the smart grid, just because it is a little bit older than the cloud side. It was focused on the government adoption side. The smart grid, a smart grid interoperability panel, which is an actual 501 c 3 organization , was put together because the Stakeholder Group felt there was not an existing organization that could facilitate that process. They establish one of their own. This has provided funding for the operation of the organization. We remained working with them routinely today where you now have a living cycle of, ok, here are the changing issues, here the top ones, here are the ones to fix. The top panel does the triage. And in many cases, now works with all of the different standard organizations that are hey,rting that, saying, here are key areas to improve. And making sure the ad
Job and arguably they have been able to outmaneuver the dni in a number of cases. Was the National Counterterrorism center of part of this, or was a sort of evolving separately . It evolve separately but the yen with president bushs idea of a terrorist run integration center. The story of 9 11 of how do we fuse information collected abroad collected domestically . How do we make sure we reach this domestic divide. President bush created an entity and the 9 11 commission did him one better and suggested he expand its mission in khalid a National Terrorism Counterterrorism Center. This is an example of an institution which actually i think has accreted to use your term power and influence over time and more than perhaps the dni. You have the successful Coordination Center for terrorism. I think that is everyones view. The analytical function, the Fusion Center the ability to pull together the counterterrorism analyst and the fbi and the nsa and of course the Central Intelligence agency.
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History, technology and society at the Georgia Institute of technology where she teaches courses in the history of science, nazi germany and the history of espionage. Prior to georgia tech, she was a professor at Michigan State university, a chancellors scholar at the Alexander Von Humboldt foundation and a lecturer at harvard university. Dr. Macrakis has written aauj books including her most recent publication, prisoners, lovers and spies the story of invisible inks. Her other books are surviving the swas ca Scientific Research in nazi germany, science under socialism east germany in comparative perspective, east German Foreign intelligence and seduced by secrets inside the stasi spy tech world. In addition, she is author of over 30 articles. Her awards include fellowships from the institute for advanced study in princeton, fulbright as well as grants from the National Science foundation and the humboldt foundation. Dr. Macrakis received her bachelors in history from ownerland college