In the ever-evolving foreign intelligence threat landscape, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) stands as a gatekeeper against foreign intelligence threats that transcend borders and use diverse, novel collection means. Foreign intelligence collectors apply a wide array of methods across a growing spectrum of means to access information. "To combat this complex, interconnected, and coordinated intelligence threat, we must be aware of current collection methods and adversaries' avenues to access information to enact stout security protocols," stated DCSA Director David Cattler in the preface for the latest edition of the "Targeting U.S. Technologies: A Report of Threats to Cleared Industry." To provide a better understanding of the threats facing the cleared defense industrial base, this document outlines the depth and breadth of the most virulent collectors targeting U.S. technologies. You'll find the
2024 edition online here.