Intelligence Community
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President Donald Trump's pick to run the Central Intelligence Agency's legal department earned bipartisan support on Wednesday after promising to address the cybersecurity concerns voiced by the intelligence community's leadership.
April 27, 2017 -
Civilian agencies have been struggling with the same challenges in developing strategies for insider threats for years now. They say those challenges are unique to them not to the Defense Department and intelligence community that have the insider threat mindset built into their culture. But the IC and DoD say not so. Federal News Radio Reporter Nicole Ogrysko tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the two agencies have struggled with the same issues.
April 21, 2017 -
Former senator Dan Coats, the nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence, told the Senate Intelligence Committee the agency’s mission grew over the last 12 years, and he wants to find ways to improve how the entire intelligence community works.
March 01, 2017 -
The Partnership for Public Service's Best Places to Work rankings showed vast disparities between agencies with the highest and lowest employee engagement in 2016. The Partnership compared 69 agencies and subcomponents into five mission areas for the second time.
February 21, 2017 -
The Defense Department is moving into the implementation phase of the new military retirement system Congress ordered it to set up just over a year ago. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu reports officials expect to spend most of 2017 conducting an exhaustive education campaign to make sure service members understand how the new system works.
February 08, 2017 -
The U.S. intelligence community is reportedly prepared to release an estimate on how many Americans are being monitored through online surveillance tools.
December 26, 2016 -
The intelligence community is building its cloud system around the concept of integration in order to facilitate better data sharing and standardized security.
August 25, 2016 -
The Defense Department is changing its policy on collection and retention of privacy-related data about U.S. citizens. That means changes for the way the intelligence community does business.
August 10, 2016 -
Intelligence analysts say a new Defense Department data gathering policy helps civil liberties and intelligence work.
August 05, 2016 -
The Defense Department is tightening up its standards for using data on U.S. citizens.
August 01, 2016 -
Agencies are meeting an administration goal to cut the number of federal employees and contractors who need security clearances for their jobs. But the intelligence community is still struggling to process security clearance investigations more quickly.
June 30, 2016 -
Just as after the Boston Marathon bombings, expect questions on what did the FBI, the intelligence community and Homeland Security, know, share and act on.
June 14, 2016 -
Minorities made up 24.6 percent of the intelligence community workforce in fiscal 2015, a 1.4 percent increase since 2011, according to the latest workforce demographics report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Women represented 38.5 percent of the IC workforce. But compared with the rest of the federal workforce, the IC still has more progress to make.
June 13, 2016 -
Intelligence agencies open doors to long-awaited cloud marketplace, invite analysts and developers to tinker with commercial technologies.
April 27, 2016 -
The Office of Special Counsel decided not to go forward with a proposed regulation that would have expanded the rights of contractors' employees to submit complaints to OSC.
January 07, 2016