Currently president of the Analysis Corporation, an intelligence contracting firm.
Currently president of the Analysis Corporation, an intelligence contracting company.
"Communications (primarily e-mail), research and development (R&D), intellectual property (IP), and business intelligence (contracts, negotiations, etc).
In 2005, experts estimated that 30% of the US intelligence budget was being outsourced, and this intelligence contracting industry has grown markedly since.
James Marks, a retired Army general and analyst for CNN from 2004 to 2007, pursued military and intelligence contracts as a senior executive with McNeil Technologies.
General Marks was hired by CNN in 2004, about the time he took a management position at McNeil Technologies, where his job was to pursue military and intelligence contracts.
Mr. Snowden prepared the résumé shortly before applying for that job, while he was working in Hawaii for the N.S.A. with Dell, the computer maker, which has intelligence contracts.
Crawford now serves on the board of Archimedes Global – one of countless intelligence contracting firms that provide a range of little-known "information operations" services to the intelligence community.
"Without even that basic information, you can't render judgment about the risks associated with their growing role" in spy agencies, said Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, an expert on intelligence contracting.
Julie Tate has a piece in the Washington Post on how private intelligence firms and security consultants have peeled away veterans from the top reaches of the CIA, hiring scores of longtime officers in large part to gain access to the burgeoning world of intelligence contracting.
