Boston, MA (November 3, 2026) - Girl Security Launches All Secure, a National Security Design Lab for the AI Era

‍Supported in part by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Lab democratizes intelligence tradecraft to strengthen human judgment and expand civic and economic mobility.

Technology is making complex analysis more powerful. All Secure is making rigorous analytic practice more accessible to everyone.

Girl Security announced the launch of All Secure, a National Security Design Lab built around Participatory Intelligence™, an analytic practice designed to strengthen critical thinking as technologies, including AI, become more powerful.  Through applied research, real-world partnerships, and new analytic tools, All Secure will develop and scale the use of this practice across civil society, institutions, and academia. 

As AI takes on more analytic work, strengthening human decision-making becomes more consequential. All Secure makes intelligence tradecraft accessible so people can exercise sound judgment when the past offers an incomplete guide to what comes next.

All Secure’s analytic practice combines proven intelligence analysis methods with knowledge and perspectives that conventional analysis may overlook. It draws on decades of intelligence tradecraft and nearly a decade of work adapting and strengthening those methods with youth, educators, and practitioners. 

Supported in part by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, All Secure is already putting the practice into use through a foundational partnership with Arizona State University’s Center for Intelligence and National Security. Its work also includes professional learning for educators across four U.S. regions working with students in grades 6–12, as well as partnerships with industry and state and local government.

As increasingly powerful technologies are built to take on more analytic work, the disciplines underlying good analysis should not disappear into machines or remain confined to specialized institutions. All Secure makes those disciplines more broadly accessible.

“Good analysis requires us to question how we know what we think we know and to recognize whose knowledge we have left out,” said Gina M. Bennett, Director of All Secure. “All Secure brings that discipline to people and institutions facing consequential decisions, while opening the analytic process to knowledge that can fundamentally change how a problem is understood.”

A Proven Foundation

Bennett is a retired CIA senior analyst whose early warnings in the 1990s identified Osama bin Laden and his network as a growing threat to the United States. Over a 35-year Intelligence Community career, she contributed to the effort that ultimately located bin Laden. In 2015, she was selected to lead the CIA’s inaugural Analytic Tradecraft Program, helping institutionalize rigorous methods for challenging assumptions, reducing bias, and strengthening analysis for senior U.S. policymakers.

All Secure also grew from seven years of Girl Security’s work preparing more than 10,000 participants to analyze complex security challenges. That work demonstrated that young people brought knowledge from their families, communities, technologies, and everyday environments that could change how a security problem was understood.

How the Lab Works

All Secure develops and applies Participatory Intelligence™ through research, real-world partnerships, and professional learning. The Lab works with organizations to investigate complex problems and identify emerging risks. Its work produces analytic assessments, scenario models, decision frameworks, and tools.

The Lab tests and refines its approaches through research and independent challenge. It also prepares students, educators, practitioners, and institutions to apply rigorous analytic methods themselves.

Participants and institutions develop skills and practices they can apply to future challenges without relying on the Lab to conduct every analysis.

All Secure in Practice

Higher education: Through a foundational partnership with Arizona State University’s Center for Intelligence and National Security, an undergraduate course is applying Participatory Intelligence™ to emerging national security challenges, bringing together traditional-age students and community members age 55 and older.

Grades 6–12: Strengthening Student Thinking in the Age of AI is being piloted with more than 25 educators across four U.S. regions. The professional-learning series equips educators with strategies for analyzing information and drawing on their own reasoning to strengthen critical thinking as AI becomes more prevalent in learning.

Industry and government: All Secure is working with partners in industry and state and local government to apply Participatory Intelligence™ to emerging risks and other complex challenges where evidence may be incomplete and assumptions need to be tested.

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About Girl Security

Founded in 2019, Girl Security is a national nonprofit organization preparing girls, young women, and youth with the knowledge, skills, networks, and confidence for pathways shaped by national security and technology. With an emphasis on analytic rigor, our programs strengthen the human judgment and reasoning essential to economic mobility in an increasingly AI-mediated world. As emerging technologies such as AI and quantum computing reshape how people learn, work, and make decisions, Girl Security takes an ecosystem approach to strengthening human agency. By engaging young people alongside parents, educators, and employers, we build the skills and environments that support independent thinking, sound judgment, and meaningful participation in shaping the future. To learn more, visit www.girlsecurity.org

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