JOINT BASE ANACOSTIA-BOLLING — The Defense Intelligence Agency received the 2024 Product of the Year Award from the OSINT Foundation for the Indo-Pacific Regional Center-led publication, “North Korea: Enabling Russian Missile Strikes Against Ukraine,” during the foundation’s annual OSINT Award reception Nov. 22 in Falls Church, Virginia.
The OSINT Foundation honors intelligence community organizations and individuals who champion open-source tools and tradecraft in support of national security. Senior leaders from the FBI, CIA and U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command attended the ceremony.
The Product of the Year Award recognizes a finished, unclassified and publicly available open-source intelligence product that demonstrated exceptional value to the nation, provided substantial impact to the organization’s mission and benefited the public good by increasing the public’s understanding of the value of OSINT.
The foundation was especially impressed with how the product’s “compelling narrative” broke down a complex, highly technical issue with exhaustive footnotes into an intuitive product that speaks to all readers regardless of intelligence community affiliation.
The unclassified booklet includes a timeline of the growing relationship between Russia and North Korea, background on the North Korean missile program and highlighted systems Pyongyang provided to Russia. It also visually compares missiles depicted in North Korean state media with missile debris from Ukraine, making the case that Russia is using North Korean missiles.
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