Luncheon on Agentic AI: Redefining Warfare and Intelligence
August 15, 2025 @ 11:30 am - 1:30 pm EDT
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Join us for a BENS luncheon with Aaron Brown, CEO of Lumbra, a national security-focused company working to operationalize agentic AI.
During the lunch, Aaron will share his insights on AI as well as discuss how:
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the convergence of AI, automation, and global sensor proliferation is not just accelerating warfare and intelligence; it’s redefining them entirely.
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agentic AI (still an emerging term) is already reshaping how we collect, organize, and act on intelligence. It’s transforming decision advantage from a human-limited process into a machine-speed reality; national security won’t just evolve in the next 24 months, it will be rearchitected.
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while the U.S. adapts, so will our adversaries; potentially faster and with fewer constraints.
Speaker Background:
Aaron Brown has spent over two decades on the front lines of U.S. national security—as an Army Ranger in Special Operations, a deputy sheriff, and a CIA operations officer. Over 15 years at the CIA, he led or contributed to many of the Agency’s most consequential missions, including supporting the response to the Khowst bombing, serving for the leadership team behind the Bin Ladin operation, and ultimately serving as Deputy Chief of Operations for Southeast Asia.
A pioneer in understanding how emerging technologies threaten clandestine operations, Aaron helped build the CIA’s premier Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance (UTS) Center and has briefed hundreds of senior officials on these risks. He earned numerous honors, including 15 CIA awards, including the CIA Director’s Award for Mission Impact in Arabic.
Today, he is the founder and CEO of Lumbra, a national security-focused company working to operationalize agentic AI. Previously, he co-founded an open-source intelligence firm that supported missions across SOCOM and the IC. He advises U.S. government agencies, private industry, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, and academic institutions on the evolving landscape of intelligence and national defense. Aaron also recently conducted an interview with David Ignatius from The Washington Post.
This promises to be yet another thought-provoking and educational event.
Feel free to register and bring a friend who may have an interest in this topic.
Cost: $40
Organizer:
STalley@bens.org
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