The CIAs IQT mission

[ND-Dem]

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The IQT Mission

We identify, adapt, and deliver innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the Central Intelligence Agency and broader U.S. Intelligence Community.

https://www.iqt.org/

https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/


https://www.iqt.org/google-acquires-last-software/



GOOGLE ACQUIRES @LAST SOFTWARE

In-Q-Tel portfolio company, @Last Software, the developer of the award-winning 3-D design product (SketchUp), today announced its acquisition by Google, Inc.


GOOGLE ACQUIRES KEYHOLE CORPORATION

Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) today announced it acquired Keyhole Corp., a Mountain View, Calif.-based digital mapping company.


In-Q-Tel and Basis Technology Sign Strategic Investment and Development Agreement for Linguistics Software

Agreement Accelerates Development of Key Multilingual Information Retrieval Technologies for Defense and Intelligence Communities

In-Q-Tel, a private not-for-profit venture group funded by the Central Intelligence Agency, and Basis Technology (www.basistech.com), a leading provider of software solutions for multilingual text mining and information retrieval applications, today announced they signed a strategic investment and development agreement, including licensing... Basis Technology and In-Q-Tel will work together to provide key multilingual information management solutions to the Intelligence Community...

Top-tier software vendors, content providers, multinational enterprises, and government agencies rely on Basis Technology’s solutions for Unicode compliance, language identification, multilingual search, normalization, transliteration, and entity extraction. Clients include industry leaders Amazon.com, America Online, Blueshoe Technologies, Convera, Endeca, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Inktomi, L.L Bean, Northrop Grumman, PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, and Verity...


SpotterRF Secures Investment Deal with IQT to Support U.S. Intelligence Community

SpotterRF LLC, the industry leader in a new class of radar called Micro Surveillance Radar (MSR), today announced a strategic investment and development agreement with In-Q-Tel (IQT), the independent, strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technologies to support the mission of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

SpotterRF is bringing radar from the age of the mainframe into the age of personal computers by applying commercial wireless RF components and digital signal processing to achieve a revolutionary decrease in size, weight, and power consumption for a wide area Ground Surveillance Radar (GSR) unit. The product also incorporates a miniature web server directly in the radar unit itself to make the product as simple as opening a web page for security personnel.

.... “IQT’s strategic investment in SpotterRF reflects the opportunities we see for this ready-soon innovation to make a difference in both the government and commercial sectors. We were particularly impressed to see the company integrate its product with Google Earth (formerly IQT portfolio company Keyhole) for real-time display of radar targets.”


Cloudera Secures Investment and Technology Development Agreement From IQT to Support U.S. Intelligence Community

Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software and services, today announced a strategic investment and development agreement from In-Q-Tel (IQT), the strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the U.S. Intelligence Community...

Cloudera Enterprise is the most cost-effective way to perform large-scale data storage and analysis ... Cloudera provides professional services, technical support and training to help any business use the software created by Google, Facebook and Yahoo! Founded by pioneers in large-scale data and home of the original Apache Hadoop creator, Cloudera is a private company backed by venture investors Accel Partners, Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital Partners with headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif.

https://www.iqt.org/cloudera-secures-investment-and-technology-development-agreement-from-iqt-to-support-u-s-intelligence-community/

In-Q-Tel: A New Partnership
Between the CIA and the Private Sector

On 29 September 1999, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was treated to something different. In many of the nation’s leading newspapers and television news programs a story line had appeared that complimented the Agency for its creativity and openness. The media was drawn to a small corporation in Washington, DC that had just unveiled its existence and the hiring of its first CEO, Gilman Louie. Mr. Louie described the Corporation, called In-Q-It, as having been formed "...to ensure that the CIA remains at the cutting edge of information technology advances and capabilities." 1 With that statement the Agency launched a new era in how it obtains cutting edge technologies. In early January 2000, the name of the corporation was changed to In-Q-Tel.

Imperatives: Why was In-Q-Tel Created?

As an information-based agency, the CIA must be at the cutting edge of information technology in order to maintain its competitive edge and provide its customers with intelligence that is both timely and relevant.


https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/additional-publications/in-q-tel

[NuclearDem]

1. Still creative speculation material.

[ND-Dem]

2. Sourced from the horse's mouth. As is this:

The CIA's In-Q-Tel, started in 1999, is the longest-running federally funded venture capital fund.

http://www.govexec.com/magazine/magazine-news-and-analysis/2006/05/venture-capital/21878/

just so the haters who want to shut down the information can't claim it's sourced from infowars.

[ND-Dem]

3. 106 Startups Who Received Investment from the C.I.A.

+ Most Frequent In-Q-Tel Co-Investors

Since 1999 In-Q-Tel has been strategically investing in startup companies that are used by the intelligence community. These investments are primarily enterprise software companies. The CIA Library has an in-depth overview of why and how the public/private partnership came to be in the late 1990s. Today, these companies have amassed more than $3.2 Billion in venture funding, and employ more than 7,000 people.

https://mattermark.com/106-startups-who-received-investment-from-the-c-i-a-most-frequent-in-q-tel-co-investors/

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/additional-publications/in-q-tel

[Overseas]

9. K&R.

[Octafish]

4. Privatizing Intel gathering and anaylsis.

Like Carlyle Group buying Booze Allen Hamilton, it's more than an investment in the future. It's making the future happen by knowing what is needed to make it happen. Works great on Wall Street, too.

[libodem]

10. Yikes!

[Octafish]

11. CARLYLE Group 'bound by the thread of turning government secrets into profits'

Behind the Curtain: Booz Allen Hamilton and its Owner, The Carlyle Group

Written by Bob Adelmann
The New American; June 13, 2013

According to writers Thomas Heath and Marjorie Censer at the Washington Post, The Carlyle Group and its errant child, Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), have a public relations problem, thanks to NSA leaker and former BAH employee Edward Snowden. By the time top management at BAH learned that one of their top level agents had gone rogue, and terminated his employment, it was too late.

For years Carlyle had, according to the Post, “nurtured a reputation as a financially sophisticated asset manager that buys and sells everything from railroads to oil refineries”; but now the light from the Snowden revelations has revealed nothing more than two companies, parent and child, “bound by the thread of turning government secrets into profits.”

And have they ever. When The Carlyle Group bought BAH back in 2008, it was totally dependent upon government contracts in the fields of information technology (IT) and systems engineering for its bread and butter. But there wasn't much butter: After two years the company’s gross revenues were $5.1 billion but net profits were a minuscule $25 million, close to a rounding error on the company’s financial statement. In 2012, however, BAH grossed $5.8 billion and showed earnings of $219 million, nearly a nine-fold increase in net revenues and a nice gain in value for Carlyle.

Unwittingly, the Post authors exposed the real reason for the jump in profitability: close ties and interconnected relationships between top people at Carlyle and BAH, and the agencies with which they are working. The authors quoted George Price, an equity analyst at BB&T Capital: "[Booz Allen has] got a great brand, they've focused over time on hiring top people, including bringing on people who have a lot of senior government experience."

CONTINUED w Links n Privatized INTEL...

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/15696-behind-the-curtain-booz-allen-hamilton-and-its-owner-the-carlyle-group

Carlyle, I've since learned, don't own ALL of Booz Allen--just a healthy fraction between 20- and 30-percent. Still, wouldn't it be great to live in a democracy, a republic built on equal justice for all? That way, traitors, warmongers and banksters would be in jail instead of printing money.

[ND-Dem]

5. kick

[SidDithers]

6. ...

Sid

[ND-Dem]

7. sources = cia + .gov

so no "belongs in creative speculation" and "alex jones material" this time

[Octafish]

8. It seems you always side with the national security state.

From Canada, too. Amazing.

[Octafish]

12. Who benefits from all this secret technology?

Besides the American people, I mean. I want to know who uses these taxpayer financed secret projects in the private sector.

Obviously, one group are the warmongers who profit from wars without end. I say nationalize their private operations, created through public office. Mineral extraction industries are where to find one large group of financial beneficiaries of war.