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| genre = [[Technology]] research, [[Venture capital]]
| genre = [[Technology]] research, [[Venture capital]]
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1999|9|29}} (as Peleus)
| foundation = {{Start date and age|1999|9|29}} (as Peleus)
| founder = [[Norm Augustine]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications//inqtel/|title=A new partnership between the CIA and the private sector|publisher=|accessdate=16 July 2017}}</ref>
| founder = [[Norm Augustine]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications//inqtel/|title=A new partnership between the CIA and the private sector|publisher=|accessdate=16 July 2017}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
| location = [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington]], [[Virginia]], [[United States|U.S.]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iqt.org/contact-us/|title=Contact Us|publisher=|accessdate=16 July 2017}}</ref>
| location = [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington]], [[Virginia]], [[United States|U.S.]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iqt.org/contact-us/|title=Contact Us|publisher=|accessdate=16 July 2017}}</ref>
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| key_people = [[Christopher Darby]] ([[CEO]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications//inqtel/#notes|title=List of the Board of Trustees|publisher=|accessdate=16 July 2017}}</ref>
| key_people = [[Christopher Darby]] ([[CEO]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications//inqtel/#notes|title=List of the Board of Trustees|publisher=|accessdate=16 July 2017}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of [[Google Inc.|Google]], worth over $2.2 million, on November 15, 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://google.blognewschannel.com/archives/2005/11/15/cia-sells-google-shares/|title=CIA sells Google shares|date=November 15, 2005}}</ref> The stocks were a result of [[Google|Google’s]] acquisition of [[Keyhole, Inc|Keyhole]], the [[CIA]] funded [[satellite]] [[map]]ping software now known as [[Google Earth]].
In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of [[Google Inc.|Google]], worth over $2.2 million, on November 15, 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://google.blognewschannel.com/archives/2005/11/15/cia-sells-google-shares/|title=CIA sells Google shares|date=November 15, 2005|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091217175159/http://google.blognewschannel.com/archives/2005/11/15/cia-sells-google-shares/|archivedate=December 17, 2009|df=}}</ref> The stocks were a result of [[Google|Google’s]] acquisition of [[Keyhole, Inc|Keyhole]], the [[CIA]] funded [[satellite]] [[map]]ping software now known as [[Google Earth]].


As of August 2006,{{update after|2012|12|10}} In-Q-Tel had reviewed more than 5,800 business plans, invested some $150 million in more than 90 companies, and delivered more than 130 technology solutions to the intelligence community.<ref name="Hoover's"/><ref>[http://www.iqt.org/invest/index.htm In-Q-Tel website: Investing in our National Security.] Obtained August 2006.</ref> In 2005 it was said to be funded with about $37 million a year from the CIA.<ref name = 'In'>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/14/AR2005081401108.html|title=In-Q-Tel, CIA's Venture Arm, Invests in Secrets|first=Terence|last=O'Hara|date=15 August 2005|publisher=|accessdate=16 July 2017|via=washingtonpost.com}}</ref>{{update after|2011|11|13}}
As of August 2006,{{update after|2012|12|10}} In-Q-Tel had reviewed more than 5,800 business plans, invested some $150 million in more than 90 companies, and delivered more than 130 technology solutions to the intelligence community.<ref name="Hoover's"/><ref>[http://www.iqt.org/invest/index.htm In-Q-Tel website: Investing in our National Security.] Obtained August 2006.</ref> In 2005 it was said to be funded with about $37 million a year from the CIA.<ref name = 'In'>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/14/AR2005081401108.html|title=In-Q-Tel, CIA's Venture Arm, Invests in Secrets|first=Terence|last=O'Hara|date=15 August 2005|publisher=|accessdate=16 July 2017|via=washingtonpost.com}}</ref>{{update after|2011|11|13}}
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.iqt.org/ Official website]
* [http://www.iqt.org/ Official website]
* [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/additional-publications/in-q-tel/index.html White Paper on the In-Q-Tel concept] from the CIA's website
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080311223852/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/additional-publications/in-q-tel/index.html White Paper on the In-Q-Tel concept] from the CIA's website
* [http://www.fcw.com/article94135-04-24-06-Print In-Q-Tel] from ''[[Federal Computer Week]]''
* [http://www.fcw.com/article94135-04-24-06-Print In-Q-Tel] from ''[[Federal Computer Week]]''
* [http://www.govexec.com/features/0506-15/0506-15na1.htm In-Q-Tel] from govexec.com
* [http://www.govexec.com/features/0506-15/0506-15na1.htm In-Q-Tel] from govexec.com

Revision as of 14:25, 12 November 2017

In-Q-Tel
ServicesInvestment in information technology supporting U.S. intelligence capability
Websiteiqt.org

In-Q-Tel (IQT), formerly Peleus and known as In-Q-It, is an American not-for-profit

intelligence capability.[4] The name, "In-Q-Tel" is an intentional reference to Q, the fictional inventor who supplies technology to James Bond.[5]

The firm is seen as a trend-setter in the information technology industry, with the average dollar invested by In-Q-Tel in 2012 attracting nine dollars of investment from other companies.[5]

History

Originally named

entrepreneurs, growth companies, researchers, and venture capitalists to deliver technologies that provide superior capabilities for the CIA, DIA, NGA, and the wider intelligence community.[7] In-Q-Tel concentrates on three broad commercial technology areas: software, infrastructure and materials sciences
.

Former CIA director George Tenet says,

We [the CIA] decided to use our limited dollars to leverage technology developed elsewhere. In 1999 we chartered ... In-Q-Tel. ... While we pay the bills, In-Q-Tel is independent of CIA. CIA identifies pressing problems, and In-Q-Tel provides the technology to address them. The In-Q-Tel alliance has put the Agency back at the leading edge of technology ... This ... collaboration ... enabled CIA to take advantage of the technology that Las Vegas uses to identify corrupt card players and apply it to link analysis for terrorists [cf. the parallel

data-mining effort by the SOCOM-DIA operation Able Danger ], and to adapt the technology that online booksellers use and convert it to scour millions of pages of documents looking for unexpected results.[8]

In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of

CIA funded satellite mapping software now known as Google Earth
.

As of August 2006,[needs update] In-Q-Tel had reviewed more than 5,800 business plans, invested some $150 million in more than 90 companies, and delivered more than 130 technology solutions to the intelligence community.[4][10] In 2005 it was said to be funded with about $37 million a year from the CIA.[11][needs update]

Governance

In-Q-Tel is a Virginia-registered corporation,

IARPA
and other models in that its employees can profit from its investments. According to public records, In-Q-Tel's principals include or have included:

Investments

Many companies listed on In-Q-Tel's investment website page[17] are secret. In-Q-Tel functions partially in public; however, what products it has and how they are used is strictly secret.

Washington Post, "virtually any U.S. entrepreneur, inventor or research scientist working on ways to analyze data has probably received a phone call from In-Q-Tel or at least been Googled by its staff of technology-watchers."[11]

Software

Material science

Biotech
Electricity
  • Electro Energy
    – nickel-metal hydride batteries for satellites & aircraft
  • Qynergy Corporation – long-lived batteries, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
  • Infinite Power Solutions – micro-batteries
  • Skybuilt Power – solar, wind, fuel cells, batteries, fossil fuels, telecommunications – Mobile Power Station(MPS) 3.5 kW to 150 kW
  • Semprius – solar energy
  • AdaptivEnergy – miniature piezo generators
  • Power Assure – managing power consumption
  • MiserWare – reduces energy
Electronics
Video

Infrastructure

Hardware
Sensor networks
  • ThingMagic – RFID
  • Dust Networks – low-power wireless mesh networking systems
  • Ember Corporation
    – ZigBee – wireless semiconductor
  • Gainspan – low power Wi-Fi
  • Tendril Networks – software for wireless sensor and control networks
  • TenXsys – telemetry systems for remote monitoring, NASA
  • StreamBase – real-time data in government/military, RFID/sensor networks
  • Thetus – software for remote sensing instruments
  • Soflinx defender – a Wireless Sensor Network for fences
  • PlateScan – automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) sensor network
Data centers
  • Bay Microsystems – packet processing and data traffic
  • Cleversafe
    – data storage clouds and massive digital archives
  • Cloudera – data storage and analysis
  • Asankya
    – Hypermesh data streams
  • CopperEye – data retention
  • Systems Research and Development – real-time data warehousing
  • Network Appliance
    – Decru (networked data storage)
Security testing

Other related personnel

Numerous noteworthy business and intelligence community professionals have been involved with In-Q-Tel at various times, including the following:[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "A new partnership between the CIA and the private sector". Retrieved 16 July 2017.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Contact Us". Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  3. ^ "List of the Board of Trustees". Retrieved 16 July 2017.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^
    Hoover's
    . Retrieved March 26, 2013.
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0-252-09710-2
    .
  6. ^ Yannuzzi, Rick E. (2007). "In-Q-Tel: A new partnership between the CIA and the private sector". Central Intelligence Agency.
  7. ^ "Technology Focus". In-Q-Tel. Retrieved 14 August 2014. IQT is focused on new and emerging commercial technologies that have the potential to give the CIA and broader U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) mission-advantage today and in the future. As a strategic partner, we work with the IC...
  8. ^ George Tenet (1997), At The Center Of The Storm: My Years at the CIA, Harper Press, p. 26
  9. ^ "CIA sells Google shares". November 15, 2005. Archived from the original on December 17, 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ In-Q-Tel website: Investing in our National Security. Obtained August 2006.
  11. ^ a b c O'Hara, Terence (15 August 2005). "In-Q-Tel, CIA's Venture Arm, Invests in Secrets". Retrieved 16 July 2017 – via washingtonpost.com.
  12. ^ "In-Q-Tel Bloomberg Company Overview". Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  13. ^ "In-Q-Tel: A New Partnership Between the CIA and the Private Sector". Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  14. ^ a b c "In-Q-Tel About - Team". Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  15. ^ "Paul G. Kaminski Bloomberg Profile". Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  16. ^ "Jeong H. Kim Bloomberg Profile". Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  17. ^ In-Q-Tel website. In-Q-Tel — Portfolio.
  18. ^ [1] Magnet Forensics Press Release Dec 8 2015
  19. ^ https://www.iqt.org/in-q-tel-invests-in-user-behavior-analytics-leader-interset-to-stay-ahead-of-cyber-attacks-on-sensitive-data/
  20. ^ Dan Geer leaves Verdasys for In-Q-Tel, by Ryan Naraine, ZDNet, May 28, 2008. Accessed 2008-07-09.

External links

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