atic was formed in 2006 by a confederation of dayton-area government, industry and academic organizations with congressionally directed funding to help solve the shortage of technical intelligence expertise. growth in the use of technical intelligence, e.g., measurement and signature intelligence (masint)/advanced geospatial intelligence (agi), geospatial intelligence (geoint) and signals intelligence (sigint)—combined with the increased application of human intelligence (humint) and open source intelligence (osint)—by the intelligence community (ic) and warfighters are straining the technical intelligence workforce. this is leading to a nationwide shortage of expertise with appropriate clearances. growth in this workforce from within civilian u.s. graduate schools is hindered by the increasing numbers of foreign national faculty and students enrolled in engineering and science programs. atic intends to be the only not-for-profit organization of its kind, to offer the ic specialized, technical, in-residence and distance learning, short courses, certificate programs, accredited associate and bachelor programs, along with the ability to host conferences and events in a secure auditorium, video teleconferencing (vtc) and/or meeting room capability, all delivered from a single, secure location.