Intelligence organizations around the world are undergoing significant changes, shifting in accordance with the sea changes in the environment in which they operate, and one of the most important changes concerns the unprecedented openness to the civilian shpere. However, this paradigmatic change lacks a systematic and holistic presence in professional and academic writing on intelligence.

The objective of this article is to propose an integrative conceptual framework for what can be called "openintelligence." It has five interactive components: intelligence dealing with issues of national security that concerns global civilian threats which go beyond the security-military sphere (such as climate change and public health); intelligence-civilian partnerships in collection activities, analysis and operations conducted in the digital realm, necessitated by the OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) revolution (prominently displayed in the war in Ukraine); need for intelligence organizations to embed themselves within the civilian STEM-ecosystem in order to preserve technological superiority; obligation to share information and intelligence assessments with the public in an era of fake news and truth decay; and movement towardshuman-capital strategies more symbiotic with the public sector and the private labor market.

The process of opening up to the civilian sphere must continue and deepen to provide a vital growth engine for intelligence organizations, but to succeed it must cope with its inherent challenges: developing a more sophisticated secrecy culture and moving the needle in sources and methods risk management; internalizing the loss of monopoly on intelligence and the need to turn to external partnerships to maintainrelevance; managing possible tension with the political decision makers, who are liable to view intelligence sharing with the public as a violation of their monopoly on the consumption of intelligence information;clarifying ethical and democratic dilemmas arising from relations with the civilian sphere; and coping with the possible reservations of civilian parties regarding  working with the intelligence organizations.