On December 14, members of the Chanticleer Intelligence Brief (CIB) met at the Coastal Science Center Complex for yet another CIB Awards Ceremony and celebration. This is a longstanding CIB tradition that marks the culmination of the semester. The event aims to recognize the hard work of CIB recruits, members, analysts, and senior analysts, and to renew everyone’s pledge to make the organization even stronger in the coming academic semester.

This semester’s celebration marked the 18th CIB Awards Ceremony, in the tradition of the group’s first-ever ceremony, which was held in May 2016. The membership of the CIB remained very prolific throughout this semester, and much solid work was completed by members at all levels of the organization. The Awards Ceremony provided the CIB with an opportunity to recognize a number of individuals and groups, who did outstanding work in the past several months.

During the ceremony, the CIB recognized its most promising members based on the consistency of their work this semester. The head of each membership desk nominated a member for the Regional Expert Award, which is given for distinguished semester-long performance as a CIB member. The award winners were: Luke Miller (Americas); Kevin Taber (Europe); Brendan Minett (Russia); Jack Goldberg (Africa); Alex Wiggins (Asia); Aaron Roecklein (Middle East); Emily Falcon (China); and Ryan Campbell (Cyber/ Transnational).

Additionally, the editors of the CIB’s Weekly Intelligence Brief publication recognized one of the contributors this semester whose work for the publication represents the highest standards of content selection, analysis and written delivery. The award recipient was Ryan Campbell (Cyber/Transnational).

The organization recognized its five Critical Mission Center (CMC) directors, who served as Applied Intelligence Project Interns this semester. These were: Brandon Macallair (CMC SIERRA), Nevaeh Deichert (CMC QUEBEC), Lilyanne Sweat (CMC WHISKEY), Christopher C. Brophy (CMC GOLF), and Samuel Luckett (CMC ROMEO). These Directors were surrounded by 18 Critical Mission Center Support Officers, who are now eligible to complete this internship in a subsequent semester.

The following awards were presented to the following Applied Intelligence Project participants: The Highest Quality Oral Intelligence Product Award, presented to the CMC Director with the best overall delivery of oral intelligence briefs, went to Brandon Macallair (SIERRA). The Written Intelligence Product Award, presented to the CMC Director with the best overall delivery of written intelligence briefs, went to Christopher J. Brophy (GOLF). The Support Excellence Award, presented to the Senior Analysts with the most dedicated overall contribution to the project, went to Ryan Kelly (WHISKEY) and Emma Plutnicki (SIERRA).

The CIB’s Chief Operations Officer, Richard Limon, (pictured) was presented with the CIB Achievement Award. This recognition is offered by the CIB Executive Team to an individual member of the organization who has gone above and beyond the call of duty in contributing to the CIB’s efforts.

The final recognition of the evening went to the CIB Africa Desk, headed by Aubrey Belanger. For the first time in many years, the Africa Desk won this semester’s CIB Weekly News Trivia Quiz. Africa placed just a few points ahead of the Europe Desk, which came in second. The Russia Desk narrowly won this semester’s Cool List Award, just a point ahead from the Middle East, China, and Cyber/Transnational Desks.

The CIB wishes to thank all of its Executive Team officers, its senior analysts and analysts, as well as its recruits, for a highly successful semester. Our organization looks forward to continuing to strengthen our work and output in coming semesters. We also want to congratulate our graduating members and wish them our very best as they embark on their next steps in life.