Membership

Why an Advanced Technical Intelligence Association?

A number of association’s already exist with wide-ranging interests in the defense and intelligence industries.  However, none of these associations have advanced technical intelligence based measurement and signature technologies as their central focus.  In our view, the interests of this increasingly vital field can easily take a back seat to larger, more established constituencies of the more traditional disciplines.  Further, military and intelligence applications have overshadowed the significant commercial applications of these technologies.  ATIA seeks to provide a strong and clear voice to advanced technical intelligence applications, creating an important center of professional momentum and advocacy on behalf of the entire industry. 

 Advanced Technical Intelligence Association Precepts: 

• Measurement and signature-based technologies hold great promise in addressing critical needs in national and civil defense.
• Focused professional attention is necessary to adequately define, develop and integrate these technologies with other, more traditional intelligence disciplines.
• We must work together as an industry/Government partnership for the benefit of the entire Advanced Technical Intelligence community. 

Member Benefits

ATIA is a non-profit, 501(c)(6), professional association consisting of the over two dozen companies that perform most of the classified measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT), advanced geo-spatial intelligence (AGI) and other technical intelligence-related work for the federal government. Membership benefits include:

 Monthly speakers (typically on the 4th Tuesday of each month), where member companies can hear the latest developments on specific MASINT programs or issues from Government and industry representatives.

• Monthly speakers (typically on the 4th Tuesday of each month), where member companies can hear the latest developments on specific MASINT programs or issues from Government and industry representatives.
• Annual TECHINT Conference (typically in December) and the opportunity to work closely with government and industry peers to develop programs and agendas; we also sponsor exhibit opportunities in connection with this conference with priority given to members.
• Workshops designed to provide a fora for multiple Government agencies and Industry to gather for focused discussions of issues important to the Nation.
• Visits to centers of interest in various geographic areas with tours of company facilities as well as hosted sessions at nearby Government facilities.
• Co-sponsorship, participation and support of relevant conferences hosted by other community organizations.
• Briefings and interactions with Congressional Intelligence committee staffs, including Congressional receptions to bring together senior leaders of Government with leaders in industry.
• Distribution of information pertaining to Association activities as well as 'open-source', policy-oriented information of general value to the technical intelligence community.
• Annual awards program for members of the technical intelligence community – government and industry.
• Opportunities for members to interact with key players within the advanced technical intelligence community through roundtable discussions at sites throughout the DC-Metropolitan area.