Blog
Leidos Becomes Gold Level Sponsor
11/26/2025 8:00:00 AM
The OSINT Foundation is pleased to announce that Leidos has partnered with us as a Gold Level Sponsor.
Our Sincere Thanks to the Hon. Ann Wagner for Her Message at the OSINT Awards Reception
11/24/2025 8:00:00 AM
Rep. Wagner was kind enough to congratulate the awardees and also spoke of the importance of OSINT across the U.S. Intelligence Community.
OSINT Education Spotlight: OSINT Collection Methodologies
11/20/2025 8:00:00 AM
Collection is one part of the overall Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) process within the OSINT discipline.
IC OSINT Innovation of the Year Award presented to the US Army Asian Studies Detachment, for the CITROS platform
11/18/2025 8:00:00 AM
The Innovation Award is presented 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 US.
Congratulations to the OSINT Branch EUCOM J2 / NATO Intelligence Fusion Centre which received the 2025 IC OSINT Unit of the Year award
11/17/2025 8:00:00 AM
The award recognizes the IC unit that has demonstrated exceptional impact to national security and materially contributed to the OSINT discipline.
Congratulations to Rebecca Boone who was named the OSINT Foundation Volunteer of the Year
11/14/2025 8:00:00 AM
Rebecca, our incoming Chair of the Events and Awards Committee was named the OSINT Foundation Volunteer of the Year in recognition of her outstanding service to the OSINT Foundation and the OSINT discipline.
Congratulations to Bob Wilkinson who received the inaugural IC OSINT Educator of the Year award
11/13/2025 8:00:00 AM
The award 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, and who significantly contributes to the discipline by developing new approved courses or curricula, training materials, training methodology, or publishing on OSINT broadly or OSINT training specifically.
Congratulations to April Brzuchalski of the US Army OSINT Office, the recipient of the IC OSINT Catalyst of the Year award
11/12/2025 8:00:00 AM
The IC OSINT Catalyst of the Year award recognizes OSINT professionals other than collectors or analysts who enable practitioners, demonstrate exceptional service to the Nation, and materially contribute to the discipline.
Congratulations to Connor Hoffman who received the LTC Ed Waller IC OSINT Practitioner of the Year award
11/11/2025 8:00:00 AM
The Practitioner Award recognizes the IC OSINT professional who has demonstrated exceptional service to the nation, materially contributing to the discipline and mentoring other OSINT practitioners.
OSINT Foundation Announces 2025 Awards Recipients
11/10/2025 8:00:00 AM
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.
OSINT Education Spotlight: Observation vs. Elicitation
11/5/2025 8:00:00 AM
The ability to observe information is part of the definition of publicly available information, and therefore clearly permitted for OSINT activities. Elicitation is more closely associated with human intelligence (HUMINT) collection.
OSINT Education Spotlight: Digital
11/3/2025 8:00:00 AM
Any data accessible to the public that can be stored and retrieved on a computer whether text, images, sounds or video, as well as immersive virtual environments.
Registration for the OSINT Foundation Awards Reception Ends Today!
10/31/2025 8:00:00 AM
REGISTRATION ENDS TODAY: Secure your ticket to the IC's premier OSINT event! This year we will be awarding in seven categories including the new OSINT Educator of the Year award.
Fivecast Renews OSINT Foundation Gold Level Sponsorship
10/29/2025 8:00:00 AM
The OSINT Foundation is pleased to announce that Fivecast continued its partnership with us by renewing its Gold Level Sponsorship.
OSINT Education Spotlight: Broadcast
10/27/2025 8:00:00 AM
In the context of OSINT, non-internet-based signal or loudspeaker transmission intended for a general audience that must be accessed at the time of transmission using specialized signal reception equipment, or which is audible to the human ear.