Technology and Know-how Management in and for Intelligence Services
William E. Odom
TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWHOW MANAGEMENT IN AND FOR THE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
To deal with technology and know-how management in the intelligence services, I will build my lecture around three and a half stories, stories about how dramatic changes in technology were managed and mismanaged. The first is about communications, the second about intelligence collection from space, and the third about computers. The half-story is about cryptography making of codes and cryptanalysis the breaking of codes. The whole story on codes is beyond one lecture, but part of it is essential to my other stories, beginning in World War II and coming right down to the present time. Code making and breaking were the critical, although not the only, causes of the explosion of new technologies that gave us modern communications, computers, many uses of satellites in space.
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Ph.D. William E. ODOM
Director, National Security Studies Senior Fellow
| Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a senior fellow and director of National Security Studies at Hudson Institute's Washington, D.C. office. He is also an adjunct professor at Yale University. | |
| As director of the National Security Agency from 1985 to 1988, he was responsible for the nation's signals intelligence and communications security. From 1981 to 1985, he served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, the Army's senior intelligence officer. | |
| From 1977 to 1981, General Odom was military assistant to the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs, Zbigniew Brzezinski. As a member of the National Security Council staff, he worked on strategic planning, Soviet affairs, nuclear weapons policy, telecommunications policy, and Persian Gulf security issues. | |
| Odom graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1954, and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1970. |
Dr. Peter F. KROGH
Dean emeritus and distinguished Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
| Studied Arts in Law and Diplomacy and Philosophy at Tufts University | |
| 1958-1960 | Trainee and Acting Assistant Branch Manager, The New England Merchants Bank, Boston |
| 1961-1962 | Instructor in Government, Tufts University |
| 1962-1967 | Assistant Dean, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University |
| 1963-1967 | Host, television interview program, "Backgrounds" - WGBH-TV, Boston |
| 1965 | Visiting Scholar, The Brookings Institute |
| 1967-1968 | White House Fellow, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State |
| 1968-1970 | Associate Dean, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University |
| 1970-1995 | Dean and Professor of International Affairs, School of Foreign Service |
| 1982-1988 | Moderator, weekly PBS television program on foreign affairs "American Interests" |
| 1988-2005 | Moderator, PBS television foreign affairs series: "Great Decisions" |
| since 1995 | Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. |
