Mission
INSA is the premier intelligence and national security organization that provides a unique venue for collaboration, networking and examination of policy issues and solutions. Representing an unprecedented alliance among senior leaders from the public, private and academic sectors, INSA members form an unparalleled community of experts that collaborate to develop creative, innovative and timely solutions to the intelligence and national security issues facing the United States.
INSA is a non-profit, non-partisan, public-private organization that works to promote and recognize the highest standards within the national security and intelligence communities. INSA members include current and former high-ranking intelligence, military and government agency leaders, analysts, and experts from industry and academia. Drawing on the experience and expertise of this membership, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance provides the thought leadership that identifies crucial intelligence topics, completes strategic research and promotes innovative solutions.
INSA has 162 corporate members, as well as over six hundred individual members, who are industry leaders within the government, private sector, and academia.
The current President is Ellen McCarthy, who has served as Director of the Human Capital Management Office and Acting Director of Security within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Director of Intelligence Operations, Strategy and Policy for the United States Coast Guard.
Former Homeland Security Advisor to President George W. Bush, Frances Townsend, serves as Chairwoman of INSA's Board of Directors. She follows John O. Brennan who left INSA in 2008 to become Deputy National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama. In 2007, INSA’s Board of Directors elected Brennan to replace Vice-Admiral John Michael McConnell upon his confirmation as the nation's second Director of National Intelligence.
INSA's internal operational structure consists of the main office and its personnel, along with several member-driven, volunteer Councils and Task Forces that examine specific areas of study within the IC.
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