"The company's friendly, if stagnant, website (www.in-q-tel.org) attempts to reinforce that image--at least it did until recently, when it was redesigned and it dropped the stylish group photo of In-Q-Tel's largely Gen-Xish staff clad in all-black slacks and turtlenecks.
"One of the young, hip people is 40-year-old Gilman Louie, whom the CIA recruited to serve as In-Q-Tel's president and CEO. Louie made his mark and presumably his fortune in the valley as the creator of the "flight simulator" video game Falcon. [emphasis mine]
In-Q-Tel’s Structure and Staffing
Central to the In-Q-Tel business model are speed, agility, market positioning, and leveraging. These attributes, taken together, have helped shape the evolving structure of the Corporation. It is one that intends to emphasize the "virtual" nature of the Corporation while minimizing "brick and mortar" costs -- i.e., it will operate by facilitating data sharing, and decisionmaking via seamless communications using a private network with broadband connectivity to the Agency and its partners, while limiting direct infrastructure investments in laboratories and related facilities by leveraging the facilities of others.
option contracts - an endeavor that meets all the objectives, or simply "put":
1. mimimzes "brick & mortar".
2. facilitated data sharing
3. using private network
4. limiting infrastructure investments
5. leverages the facilities of others.