Managing Policy Risk: Oversight of Defense HUMINT and Sensitive Activities

Name: Managing Policy Risk: Oversight of Defense HUMINT and Sensitive Activities
Start: 2024-10-22T15:00:00-0400
End: 2024-10-22T16:00:00-0400

RSVP Required Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Please join the Belfer Center’s Defense, Emerging Technology, and Strategy (DETS) Program for “Managing Policy Risk: Oversight of Defense HUMINT and Sensitive Activities” on Tuesday, October 22nd at 3:00 PM in Wexner 434AB.

Refreshments will be served. This event is open to Harvard ID holders; please RSVP here.

Date: Tue, Oct 22, 2024 Time: 03:00pm - 04:00pm Location: Wexner Building - Wexner 434AB

Event Description

China's emergence as a peer competitor and the evolution of ubiquitous technical surveillance have forever changed the operating environment in which competition occurs. As DoD pivots to strategic competition, the Office of the Secretary of Defense must enable the creative employment of unique capabilities while balancing policy risk. "Left of bang", strategic competition will involve a broad category of sensitive activities.

This unclassified session explores the process (and challenges) by which the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security oversees HUMINT and Sensitive Activities while exploring policy solutions to better enable DoD competitiveness.