Who’s Who in Commercial Intelligence: Jan Herring

Jan Herring is President of Herring & Associates LLC, a management consultancy, specializing in intelligence matters, and a fouinding principal at the Academy of Competitive Intelligence, the gold standard for commercial intelligence training at all levels, entry, mid-career, and capstone. He is unique in the world of commercial intelligence for having been the first modern …

Who’s Who in Commercial Intelligence: Ran Hock

PLATINUM LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Dr. Ran Hock Dr. Ran Hock has done more than any single individual to educate both government and private sector parties with respect to the value of the deep web.  He has single-handedly trained hundreds of individuals in the nuances of this major new intelligence resource base.  Emphasizing individual analytic skills …

2005 Simmons (US) Puts Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) into Intelligence Reform Legislation

Representative Rob Simmons (R-CT-02) Obtains 417 House Votes In Favor of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) as Essential Part of Reform Effort WASHINGTON, June 26 /PRNewswire/ — According to Robert David Steele Vivas, CEO of OSS.Net, Inc., a global commercial intelligence corporation,  “Representative Rob Simmons is going to be a vital contributor to Congressional deliberations on …

2004 Mazzafro (US) Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Global Issues

GOLDEN CANDLE AWARD: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory OSS ’04: To the JHU-APL, and especially to Capt Joseph Mazzafro, USN (Ret) and Dr. Michael Vlahos, for sustained excellence in the integration of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) into their complex all-source analytic efforts in support of the Department of Defense.  Aided by the Gibson Library, …