To compete and thrive in the 21st century, democracies, and the United States in particular, must develop new national security and economic strategies that address the geopolitics of information. In the 20th century, market capitalist democracies geared infrastructure, energy, trade, and even social policy to protect and advance that era’s key source of power—manufacturing. In this century, democracies must better account for information geopolitics across all dimensions of domestic policy and national strategy.
Biography
Mr. Isaac Lowe is an intelligence officer with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and recently served as the Director of the Technical Analysis Center (TAC), sponsored by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In this position, he led specialized technical collection and analysis efforts to enable U.S. space operations across the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD).
Isaac began his intelligence career in the U.S. Air Force in 1995. While assigned to the U.S. Space Command and National Security Agency (NSA), he led multiple intelligence missions in direct support to Operations Northern Watch, Southern Watch, and Desert Fox. After leaving active duty, he supported the Global War on Terrorism as an intelligence analyst within the NSA, then served as a systems engineer and principal investigator for national systems for the National Reconnaissance Office. He joined the TAC in 2002 as a technical intelligence analyst, leading studies in support of IC and DoD space acquisitions. Isaac was selected by NGA as the Deputy Director of the TAC in August 2010, then as the Director in April 2012.
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