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  Webinars     Apps AFCEA logo   Monday, November 10, 2008 Joe
Mazzafro   Since joining the "for profit" private sector of the
industrial base associated with the Intelligence Community (IC)
in June of 2006 I have found it necessary to go various agency
industry days on a regular basis, and to be blunt with the
exception of NSA events and the ODNI's second one I am tired of
being fed manure in a sugar cone and being told its chocolate
ice cream!  Worse, I get the feeling that those intelligence
agency officials organizing these industry days actually believe
that they are delivering chocolate ice cream, i.e. what the
private sector wants to learn at an industry day.  With 70% of
the National Intelligence Program (NIP) out sourced to
contractors, industry days are not just nice to haves and
contractors really are IC partners.  Done well, industry days
give IC agencies a controlled venue in which to communicate in a
fair and open way what products