A Pinnacle Series Event Advancing Cognitive Security Through Education, Research, and Professional Practice 8–9 September 2026 | Reston, Virginia The information environment has become an increasingly contested domain. Foreign information manipulation and interference, malign influence activities, the rise of  cognitive warfare, and the exploitation of emerging technologies have created new challenges for governments, institutions, communities,...Read More

Introduction Conflicts since the World Wars (WW1, WW2) have increasingly demonstrated that civilian populations are capable and willing to function as a massive, distributed sensor network. Technology has significantly increased latent capacity, with populations increasingly willing and able to contribute both inside the area of operations and outside it. Further, as data is increasingly available...Read More