# Commercial Technology and Intelligence **Entity class:** Technology-transfer architecture ## Definition **Commercial technology and intelligence** describes the continuing transfer of computing, cloud, sensing, analytics, cybersecurity, biotechnology, and AI capabilities between commercial markets and intelligence missions. The relationship includes procurement, venture investment, research partnerships, contracts, and movement of technical personnel. ## Relevance to this collection It is an operating layer of [[wiki/Public-Private Intelligence Ecosystem|Public-Private Intelligence Ecosystem]], [[wiki/In-Q-Tel|In-Q-Tel]], [[wiki/Dual-Use Technology|Dual-Use Technology]], and [[wiki/Intelligence Technology Acquisition|Intelligence Technology Acquisition]]. ## Relationships - **master collection:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. - **intellectual neighborhood:** [[wiki/Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection|Intellectual Neighborhood of the Counterterrorism Collection]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [U.S. House of Representatives, hearing on the CIA's In-Q-Tel venture, June 14, 2000](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-106hhrg70548/pdf/CHRG-106hhrg70548.pdf). **As of:** 2026-09-23