Many often joke about the amount of information a teenager can gather if you give them a phone, a piece of ambiguous information, and 20 minutes. But the premise is very real. The act of gathering information from commercially and publicly available data by the intelligence community—known as Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)—is vital to maintaining a strong national security posture. In fact, 20 percent of the president's daily brief is derived from OSINT.

Congress recognizes the integral role OSINT plays in an information age where data means everything. This year, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence stood up the Open-Source Intelligence Subcommittee, the first ever congressional body devoted specifically to an intelligence discipline . As the first chairman of this

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