Cipher Brief: IC Needs Structural Overhaul — Open Source Center and Technology Hub to Replace Cold War Architecture

Former CIA Deputy Director for Digital Innovation Jennifer Ewbank argues the IC's 1947 organizational architecture is fundamentally unfit for the AI and OSINT era, proposing two new organizations: a centralized Open Source Center to curate all publicly available intelligence, and a technology hub to develop and deploy capabilities across the entire community. The proposal directly challenges the current model where each agency maintains siloed technical infrastructure and duplicative OSINT programs.