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A-Space (est. 1991) is a collectively run anarchist community center and art gallery located at 47th St & Baltimore Avenue in Philadelphia.
Located in the Cedar Park neighborhood, the building is part of the Life Center Association (LCA), a land trust that owns several houses in West Philadelphia. Residents contribute to a common maintenance fund, which is disbursed in accordance with decisions made at a monthly meeting of representatives from the buildings.
A-Space hosts a Books Through Bars program, the Philadelphia Anti-War Forum, and meetings of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML).
The United States Intelligence Community A-Space, or Analytic Space, is a project from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's (ODNI) Office of Analytic Transformation and Technology to develop a common collaborative workspace for all analysts from the USIC. It is accessible from common workstations and provides unprecedented access to interagency databases, a capability to search classified and unclassified sources simultaneously, web-based messaging, and collaboration tools. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is the executive agent for building the first phase of A-Space. Initial operational capability was scheduled for December 2007. A-Space went live on the government's classified Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System 22 September 2008. A-Space is built on Jive Software's Clearspace application (which has been superseded by Jive's Social Business Software).
A-Space is part of what the Director of National Intelligence has identified as a critical piece of "Analytic Transformation":
Within the analytic transformation program, there are several initiatives under way in three areas:
1) enhancing the quality of analytic products, 2) managing the mission more effectively at a Community level, and 3) building more integrated analytic operations across the Intelligence Community (IC).For contrast, see perceived limitations of CIA information technology at CIA Information Technology.