OSINT Foundation Announces 2025 Awards Recipients

OSINT Foundation Announces 2025 Awards Recipients. The OSINT Foundation, the professional association of Intelligence Community (IC) open-source intelligence (OSINT) professionals, hosted its annual awards reception on November 7. The event celebrated the achievements of OSINT practitioners and IC organizations whose work has enhanced the national security of the United States.

The following recipients of the OSINT Foundation’s 2025 Awards were recognized:

Connor Hoffman received the IC OSINT Practitioner of the Year award, which recognizes the IC OSINT professional who has demonstrated exceptional service to the nation.

OSINT Branch, EUCOM J2/NATO Intelligence Fusion Centre received the IC OSINT Unit of the Year award, recognizing the IC unit that has demonstrated exceptional impact to national security and materially contributed to the OSINT discipline.

April Brzuchalski, Head of Training, Tradecraft and Exercises, U.S. Army OSINT Office received the IC OSINT Catalyst of the Year, which recognizes OSINT professionals such as librarians, data scientists, auditors, trainers, linguists, operational support, COTRs, policy analysts, program managers, and OSINT managers who enable practitioners, demonstrate exceptional service, and materially contribute to the OSINT discipline.

Bob Wilkinson received the inaugural IC OSINT Educator of the Year, which recognizes recognizes an OSINT education professional who enables practitioners by providing high quality and innovative training, demonstrating principles of adult learning as well as sound IC OSINT fundamentals and tradecraft.

Asian Studies Detachment, US Army, for the CITROS platform, was recognized with the IC OSINT Innovation of the Year Award, given for the novel technique, process, or platform that is at the unclassified level, derived from U.S. Government technology, and which has demonstrably improved the effectiveness of the OSINT discipline and significantly impacted the national security of the United States.

Rebecca Boone, incoming Chair, OSINT Foundation Events & Awards Committee, was named the OSINT Foundation Volunteer of the Year Award in recognition of her outstanding service to the OSINT Foundation and the discipline.

Congresswoman Ann Wagner of Missouri, Chair of the OSINT Subcommittee of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, gave a video address to the almost 100 attendees, congratulating the honorees and the OSINT Foundation for their continued work to professionalize the discipline and contributions to national security. Due to the lapse in government funding, several awardees were not able to travel but the Foundation was grateful that local senior leaders accepted the awards on behalf of the overseas elements. BAE Systems, Inc. Systems hosted the event at its Falls Church, Virginia facility.