Corporate Sponsorship

Corporate sponsors are important partners of the OSINT Foundation and vital supporters of our mission to advance the OSINT discipline, educate the general public, and lessen the burdens of government. We welcome your application and are happy to answer any questions about sponsorship.

Sponsorship of the OSINT Foundation supports the professionalization of the workforce through common standards and certification. As a corporate sponsor, companies stay abreast of the latest innovations and best practices while providing professional development opportunities for their staff members.

Corporate sponsors are vital to the Foundation's mission of advancing the OSINT discipline. Sponsorship provides companies with a number of individual memberships for their employees, the ability to post job vacancies, and advertising in the Foundation's newsletter and journal (when launched), as well as their logo on our website. The Foundation committees and subcommittees include practitioners and subject matter experts from industry (limited to a total of two members per company across all committees and as openings occur), and industry participation is encouraged on task-focused working groups when established. Sponsorship does not give a company a guarantee of committee membership, but the work of the Foundation's committees benefits industry, as well as the government as OSINT practitioners enhance their professional skills and qualifications.

Since the Foundation is not an industry advocacy organization, but a professional association, industry participants on the committees will be practitioners or subject matter experts, not business development or corporate professionals. Industry members bring valued insight into new technologies, processes, and tools, as well as best practices, and are true partners across the IC.

Sponsorship Levels

*Sponsorships at all levels are for 12 months.

Current Sponsors

Platinum

Gnosis Solutions is a veteran and minority-owned small business specializing in open source intelligence support, continuity consultancy, training, and strategic planning. Eliot Jardines, president of Gnosis stated, “We are exceedingly proud of being able to provide early funding to the OSINT Foundation by way of sponsorship. Gnosis has a goal of investing 1% of gross revenue in charitable causes, and I can think of no better cause than supporting the OSINT community and our national security. Given my volunteer role in the OSINT Foundation, it was particularly important to demonstrate a strong commitment to the goals of the Foundation, before I asked others in our industry to consider sponsorship.”

“Booz Allen is heavily invested in advancing open-source intelligence exploitation and expanding its integration into multi-domain intelligence analysis for decision advantage,” says Jeff Kimmons, Senior Vice President at Booz Allen. “With decades of all-source intelligence experience in support of our warfighters and Intelligence Community, we understand the powerful mission impact that open source information can provide. Strategic competitors are heavily leveraging OSINT insights today- industry partners need to work closely with government mission owners to accelerate OSINT innovation and analytic application to benefit U.S. national security.”

Gold

Recorded Future is an intelligence company that supports public and private sector clients with OSINT for some of the most complex cyber and physical security missions. Recorded Future’s Intelligence Cloud provides complete coverage across adversaries, infrastructure, and targets. By combining persistent and pervasive automated data collection and analytics with human analysis, Recorded Future provides real-time visibility into the digital landscape and empowers clients to take proactive action to disrupt adversaries and keep their people, systems, and infrastructure safe. “We are very excited to announce our support of the OSINT Foundation,” said Dr. Christopher Ahlberg, Recorded Future Co-Founder and CEO. “As threats converge across the cyber, physical, and influence domains, OSINT is more important now than ever before. Investing in open-source intelligence through the great work being done by the OSINT Foundation will help elevate the discipline and broaden its awareness across the national security community as a whole.”

Silver

Flashpoint helps organizations protect their most critical assets, infrastructure, and stakeholders from security risks such as cyber threats, ransomware, fraud, physical threats, and more. Leading security practitioners—including physical and corporate security, cyber threat intelligence (CTI), vulnerability management, and vendor risk management teams—rely on the Flashpoint Intelligence Platform, comprising open-source (OSINT) and closed intelligence, to proactively identify and mitigate risk and stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape. “Flashpoint is thrilled to support the OSINT Foundation and its mission of developing community and tradecraft around open-source intelligence, and to advance U.S. national security,” said Flashpoint CEO Josh Lefkowitz. “OSINT has never been more mission-critical than it is today. It powerfully supports the missions of security and intelligence practitioners across government and the private sector, helping them navigate an ever-growing array of cyber and physical threats. The OSINT revolution is here, and we’re proud to support the Foundation in helping to evangelize the power of OSINT."

Bronze

Guidehouse is a next generation consultancy serving both public and commercial sectors with a mission to solve big problems, build trust in society, and empower our clients to shape the future. In addition to mission transformation, financial management, and technical consulting services, Guidehouse provides strategy, community building, and compliance services for the OSINT community and leverages open source information for supply chain risk management. “We are very pleased to announce our support of the OSINT Foundation” said John Saad, Guidehouse’s Defense and National Security Segment Leader. “We have seen first-hand the impact that can be made by creating an OSINT community capable of responding to our most serious national security threats and crises. We believe an investment in OSINT and improving our national capacity for this growing intelligence source is an investment in the future and one I’m excited to back.”

ManpowerGroup Public Sector specializes in linguistic, technical, and data management solutions to address the dramatic rise in the volume, variety, and complexity of open-source data. "MGPS is excited to partner with the OSINT Foundation as part of its quest to bring efficacy to OSINT collection and exploitation," says MGPS Vice President Erika Nobel Hendzel. "We look forward to collaborating with the other Foundation members to advance all aspects of OSINT tradecraft to support our mission partners and their efforts to protect our country's national security."

Nisos is The Managed Intelligence Company^TM. Their analyst-led intel investigations, assessments, and monitoring services empower security, intelligence, and trust and safety teams. Nisos provides accurate, customized intelligence that guides security and risk decisions to protect organizations, assets, and people. “Nisos is proud to support the OSINT Foundation, the members of their community, and our national security,” commented David Etue, CEO of Nisos. “As both private and public sector organizations face increasing and more sophisticated cyber and physical threats, OSINT plays a critical role in protecting organizations and people from adversaries seeking to harm them.. The OSINT Foundation plays a vital role in elevating and advancing the OSINT discipline and we are proud to join them in that endeavor.”

Why Partner with the OSINT Foundation?

Reason One

Sponsorship enhances the nation's security and advances the OSINT discipline.

The Foundation's work drives towards consistent standards, innovative tradecraft, and a program of record for OSINT.

Reason Two

Sponsorship supports the professionalization of the workforce, establishment of common standards, and certification.

Independent certification will minimize delays in onboarding contract personnel, while minimizing operational risks.

Reason Three

Sponsorship reaches OSINT professionals and the government with your message.

Targeted advertising to OSINT practitioners simplifies means of reaching, identifying, and successfully recruiting talent, while getting your message out to government OSINT managers.