Andrew Borene

Andrew M. Borene is Executive Director of Robotics Alley, and Director for Government & Industry Affairs and Assistant General Counsel at ReconRobotics. He is an attorney with experience in business, law, and government.

Mr. Borene is a former Associate Deputy General Counsel with the U.S. Department of Defense and has taught as adjunct faculty at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. He was a program manager with LexisNexis where he supported U.S. defense and intelligence agencies with open source intelligence (OSINT) solutions for analysts and specialized legal workflow solutions for national security attorneys. He began his professional career as a Public Finance Associate at Wells Fargo & Co. He also served on active duty as a U.S. Marine intelligence officer with the 1st Marine Division, including combat service in Iraq and time as the executive officer for its Headquarters & Service Company at Camp Pendleton.

Borene holds a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School and a B.A. in Economics from Macalester College. He completed an executive education program at Harvard University’s Institute for International Development. He was a judicial extern in the chambers of Judge John Tunheim, U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota. In 2009, he was awarded a U.S. Department of State funded fellowship for the study of post-conflict peacebuilding in Northern Ireland.

Mr. Borene has published Op-Ed pieces in The New York Times, The Hill, The Washington Times and other publications. He has been a contributor to The Star-Tribune’s Commentary page and MPR’s NewsQ. He has also appeared live on CNN, ABC News, Fox News, CBS, National Public Radio and BBC. He is the founding editor of the ABA’s U.S. Intelligence Community Law Sourcebook.

Mr. Borene is licensed to practice law in Minnesota and the District of Columbia, and admitted to the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

• The U.S. Intelligence Community Law Sourcebook

  • American Bar Association
  • June 10, 2010
  Authors: Andrew Borene

  For the first time under one cover, The U.S Intelligence Community Law Sourcebook is your complete guide to U.S intelligence community source material, including relevant federal statutes, intelligence authorization acts, executive orders, attorney general and the director of national intelligence guidelines, and proposed significant legislation in the U.S. intelligence community.
  
  This exhaustive collection of the laws, rules and regulations that govern the United States Intelligence Community will prove invaluable to lawyers, academics, journalists and corporate officers alike.

• The U.S Intelligence Community Law Sourcebook, 2011 Edition

  • American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security
  • July 23, 2011
  Authors: Andrew Borene

  Now updated, expanded and revised, The U.S Intelligence Community Law Sourcebook, 2011 Edition, is your complete guide to U.S intelligence community source material, including relevant federal statutes, intelligence authorization acts, executive orders, attorney general and the director of national intelligence guidelines, and proposed significant legislation in the U.S. intelligence community. The 2011 edition now also includes expert legal commentary on Cybersecurity Law, Counterintelligence, Domestic Intelligence, and National Security Investigations in the Private Sector. Contributing authors include the former General Counsel for the National Security Agency (NSA), the former U.S. National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX), the first General Counsel of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and a former Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council (ATAC) Federal Prosecutor who was assigned to a Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). This exhaustive collection of the laws, rules and regulations that govern the United States Intelligence Community, and the added commentary will prove invaluable to lawyers, academics, journalists and corporate officers alike.