The recent appointment of General Andrzej Kowalski as head of the newly created Department of Disruptive Technologies at Poland's National Security Bureau (BBN) is no small matter. An influential figure in the military intelligence apparatus and former head of the military intelligence service (Sluzba Wywiadu Wojskowego or SWW), Kowalski is one of the silent architects of the country's techno-security doctrine. His return to the helm, orchestrated by Professor Sławomir Cenckiewicz, director of the