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INSA's Councils and Task Forces

INSA’s Councils and Task Forces reflect INSA’s mission to facilitate collaboration between the public and private sectors for non-partisan, practical solutions to our national security challenges. INSA’s Councils and Task Forces produce white papers, testimony and expert level answers to policy requests from the White House, the National Security Council, the ODNI, the Pentagon and various Executive Branch agencies and Congressional Committees.


As of April 2012, INSA Councils and Task Forces included:

  • Cyber Security Council
    • Addressing Cyber Security Through Public-Private Partnership: An Analysis of Existing Models A .pdf version of this white paper produce in November 2009
    • Critical Issues for Cyber Assurance Policy Reform: An Industry Assessment A .pdf version of this white paper produced in March 2009
    • Cyber Intelligence: Setting the Landscape for an Emerging Discipline A .pdf version of this white paper produced in September 2011
    • Cloud Computing: Risks, Benefits, and Mission Enhancement for the Intelligence Community A .pdf version of this white paper produced in March 2012
  • Homeland Security Intelligence Council
    • Intelligence to Protect the Homeland: Taking stock ten years later and looking ahead A .pdf version of this white paper produced in September 2011
  • Council on Technology and Innovativation
    • Intelligence Community Acqusition & Development A .pdf version of this white paper jointly produced with The Intelligence Committee of AFCEA International in Fall 2010
  • SMART Change Task Force
    • SMART Change: Lessons of the Past, Direction for the Future A .pdf version of this white paper produced in May 2011
  • National Security Studies Council
  • Security Policy Reform Council
    • Improving Security While Managing Risk A .pdf version of this white paper produced in October 2007
    • Next Steps for Security Reform: Industry Proposals to Enhance Efficiency and Reduce Costs in National Security Contracts A .pdf version of this white paper produced in December 2011
  • Strategy Pivot Task Force

White papers produced by earlier Councils and Task Forces include:

  • Organizational Conflict of Interest Task Force
    • Organizational Conflicts of Interest and the Intelligence Community: An Analysis of Public and Private Perspectives A .pdf version of this white paper produced in March 2011
  • Counterintelligence for the 21st Century A .pdf version of this white paper produced in September 2009
  • Critical Issues for Intelligence Acquisition Reform A .pdf version of this white paper produced in October 2008

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