Industry groups push to keep open-source measures in annual intelligence bill

A coalition of industry groups and former officials is asking Congress to preserve measures in the annual intelligence-community authorization bill that support the use of open-source intelligence by U.S. spy agencies, according to letters first seen by Nextgov/FCW.The missives are undersigned by firms such as Babel Street and ANDECO, which sell risk and threat intelligence services derived from commercially or publicly available information that’s not necessarily gathered through mor