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Syntelligent believes in providing the best prepared workers possible to the Intelligence Community and other Government Agencies- which will reduce workforce turbulence, enhance retention and provide a “true best value” that is a win-win for the Government and Syntelligent Analytic Solutions.


To demonstrate Syntelligent's commitment to the Intelligence industry, we have enlisted the assistance of Academic Professionals to first survey the literature and summarize what we will increasingly be dealing with in the intelligence community across the generations and to report this information. In fact, one of Syntelligent's Research Analyst was recently published in the Global Intelligence Studies Journal and in SIGNAL magazine as well as presented at the Global Intelligence conference. The links to these publications are below.

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Margaret Marangione


The article details the history of the National Security Act (NSA), the National Security Council (NSC), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the newly created Space Force (SF) in correlation to a changing political and international landscape from the 1940s to 2021. Primary and secondary sources were reviewed and included military and intelligence experts, interviews, as well as the foundation documents and laws for the NSA.


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Margaret Marangione


In "Trifecta of Cyberwarfare," Margaret Marangione reviews Elizabeth Van Wie Davis' book "Shadow Warfare: Cyberwar Policy in the United States, Russia and China."


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In "Words as Weapons: The 21st Century Information War," Margaret Marangione discusses the information war in context with social media and "fake news." This critical analysis was published in the Global Security and Intelligence Studies Volume 6, Issue 1 on August 2, 2021.


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Margaret Marangione


In "What's Thinking Got To Do With It? The Challenge of Evaluating and Testing Critical Thinking in Potential Intelligence Analysts," Ms. Marangione examines the need for critical thinking skills in intelligence analysts (IA) in the twenty-first century. In this paper, she addresses concerns regarding testing, training, and many other modern day issues that affect this relevant topic. This paper was published in the Global Security and Intelligence Studies, Volume 5, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2020 issue. 


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Margaret Marangione


Margaret Marangione's recent review of Patrick F. Walsh's book "Intelligence, Biosecurity, and Bioterrorism" was published online in the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence on December 10, 2019.


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Margaret Marangione


In the Global Security and Intelligence Studies Volume 4, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2019, Ms. Maragione reviews Noel Hendrickson's book "Reasoning for Intelligence Analysts: A Multidimensional Approach of Traits, Techniques and Targets."


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Margaret Maragione


The Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence has published the full detailed researched report which has previously appeared in shorter articles. The full paper, "Millennials: Truthtellers or Threats?," examines the history of leaking, whistle blowing and espionage, reviews the insider threat model, investigates Winner, Manning and Snowden's actions in comparison to the millennial and Z generation, looks at data on government employees and student attitudes towards these topics.


Click here to view the paper in the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Volume 32, 2019 - Issue 2 on pages 354-378, published online May 9, 2019. 

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Margaret Marangione


As a featured article in the Global Security and Intelligence Studies Volume 2, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2018 of the Policy Studies Organization, "Leakers: Truth-teller, Threat, or Fake News?" explores opposing viewpoints on the subject of leakers within the Intelligence Community and offers recommendations to thwart the potential of insider threats.


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Margaret Marangione


On July 1, 2018, AFCEA's Signal magazine published an article in The Cyber Edge section, entitled "Latest Leakers Are Canaries in Coal Mine,"  by Maggie Marangione which addresses the issue of organizations need to improve information management to adjust to the millennial mindset.


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Margaret Marangione


As a featured article in the Global Security and Intelligence Studies Volume 2, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2017 of the Policy Studies Organization, "Teaching the Millennial Intelligence Analyst" examines the conclusions of researchers regarding the millennial generation and their unique challenges as students and intelligence analysts (IAs), and determines that a carefully crafted framework of coursework can be correlated and a curriculum built to the core competencies of ICD 610, as well as take into account the unique variables of millennial intelligence analysts and the needs of the intelligence community.


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Margaret Marangione


In "Mind the Millennial Training Gap" which was published in AFCEA's December 2017 issue of Signal, Maggie Marangione explores how preparing this generation of intelligence analysts requires a new approach.


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