Intel at the Edge

From Light Tables to AI: Shelby Pierson on the Future of Imagery Analysis

In this episode of Intel at the Edge, host Chip Usher sits down with Shelby Pierson, former Director for Analysis at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). S

Beyond LLMs: How Jumptuit's Don Leka Is Building AI for the Physical World

In this episode of Intel at the Edge, host Chip Usher sits down with Don Leka, Founder and CEO of Jumptuit, to explore a different kind of artificial intelligence — one b

Narrative Intelligence: How Adversaries Weaponize Stories with Joe Stradinger

Narrative intelligence is emerging as one of the intelligence community's most important new disciplines — and few people understand it better than Joe Stradinger.  In t

Iran's Nuclear Program: "Down But Not Out" with Amy McAuliffe

Four and a half months into the Iran war, what's actually left of Iran's nuclear program — and what would it take to keep it that way? In this episode of Intel at the Ed

Kimi K3: What China's Latest Model Means for the US with David Lin

Kimi K3, China's largest open-weight AI model yet, just hit the public — and it's rewriting the terms of the US-China AI race. In this emergency episode, host Chip Usher

How Agentic AI is Enabling A New Industry: Intelligence-As-A-Service with Ansel Stein

In this episode of “Intel at the Edge”, Chip Usher sits down with Ansel Stein, Vice President of Operations at Crisis24 and a former CIA analyst, to explore how artificia

Why America Stopped Thinking About the Future with Ari Wallach

Futurist Ari Wallach joins Intel at the Edge to discuss why the U.S. government canceled its long-range forecasting program — and what it costs us. From scenario planning

Inside the US-UK Intelligence Partnership with Gen. Tim Haugh & Sir Jeremy Fleming

In this episode of “Intel at the Edge”, former NSA Director General Tim Haugh and former GCHQ Director Sir Jeremy Fleming sit down for a rare, candid conversation about o

Why Supply Chain Blind Spots Are a National Security Problem with Brandon Daniels

From rare earth minerals to nitrocellulose, Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels warns that invisible vulnerabilities in America's supply chains pose serious national security risk

How Israel uses AI for Intelligence & Why It's Not Enough with Amos Lahav

In this episode of "Intel at the Edge", host Chip Usher is joined by Amos Lahav, founder of Airis Labs, to examine one of the most consequential questions in modern defen

Is AI Actually Useful for Intelligence Analysis? with Wayne McCool & Bruce Frost

Two senior CIA veterans — Wayne McCool, former Associate Deputy Director for Analysis, and Bruce Frost of "Rhombus Power" — cut through the hype. They discuss how AI is b

FISA Section 702 with Brett Freeman

FISA Section 702 is one of the most powerful — and controversial — surveillance laws in the United States. It allows the U.S. intelligence community to collect electronic

Inside Beijing's Strategy: The Trump-Xi Summit, Taiwan & the Tech War with Chris Johnson

With the Trump-Xi summit approaching, former CIA senior China analyst Chris Johnson joins “Intel at the Edge” to give an unvarnished assessment of Beijing's priorities, X

China’s Greatest Heist: How Beijing Stole America’s Technology with Andrew Badger

China didn’t just compete with the United States — it harvested America’s innovation. In this episode of “Intel at the Edge” Andrew Badger joins Chip Usher to discuss The

How U.S. Intelligence Views China’s Military Power with Admiral Michael Studeman

Admiral Michael Studeman joins "Intel at the Edge " to discuss the shifting landscape of Indo-Pacific security. Drawing from his decades of experience in the U.S. Intelli

Emergency Update on Iran with Norman Roule

With two U.S. carrier strike groups converging on Iran and a presidential deadline looming, the clock is ticking. In this urgent episode of Intel at the Edge, host Chip U

The "High Ground" of the North Atlantic: Why Greenland is the Next Frontier of Global Competition with Heather Conley

In this episode of Intel at the Edge, host Chip Usher is joined by Heather Conley, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a leading expert o

How the CIA Launched the Predator Program with Alec Bierbauer

In this episode of Intel at the Edge, host Chip Usher sits down with retired CIA officer Alec Bierbauer, a core founder of the team that launched the agency’s revolutiona

Emergency Update on the Iran Crisis with Jonathan Panikoff

In this emergency episode of Intelligence at the Edge, host Chip Usher is joined by Jonathan Panikoff, Director of the Near East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Counc

Congressional Perspectives on Technology and Intelligence with Representative Pat Fallon of Texas

On this episode of Intel at the Edge, host Chip Usher is joined by U.S. Congressman Pat Fallon (TX-04) to discuss the evolving landscape of national security and his firs