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ODNI Plans New Investment Plan To Reach Wider Audience, S&T Chief Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 5th, 2021

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ODNI Plans New Investment Plan To Reach Wider Audience, S&T Chief Says

Dr. John Beieler, director of science and technology, Office of the Director of National Intelligence. LinkedIn photo.

ST. LOUIS—To better communicate its needs and enable partnerships across government, academia and the private sector the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is creating a new “investment landscape” that shows the needs of the intelligence community at a level that is less classified in the past, the director of Science and Technology for the ODNI said on Tuesday. The intelligence community was reorganized in the post-9/11 period to focus on competition but a new era of strategic…

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