Hubbard Radio Washington DC, LLC. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.
Intelligence analysts say a new Defense Department data gathering policy helps civil liberties and intelligence work.
The Defense Department is tightening up its standards for using data on U.S. citizens.
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.
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.
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.
Intelligence agencies open doors to long-awaited cloud marketplace, invite analysts and developers to tinker with commercial technologies.
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.
The Director of National Intelligence released a new transparency plan that will facilitate the publication of some intelligence documents.
Greg Smithberger, the NSA chief information officer, said the Intelligence Community IT Enterprise (ICITE) program is taking some of the concepts of the commercial cloud and applying special cybersecurity technologies on top.
Responding to cyber penetrations into federal IT systems at the Office of Personnel Management and elsewhere, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Wednesday that it was launching a “comprehensive” and governmentwide counterintelligence campaign.
The National Intelligence Director said he’s working through the fiscal 2017 budget request to limit or reverse the impacts of budget uncertainty on the IC workforce.
The intelligence community and private industry are pooling their efforts to fight rising threats to national cybersecurity.
The Intelligence Community wasn't thrilled when The New York Times published the names of three senior undercover CIA officers in an article back in April. The Times said it made its decision because the CIA officers hold leadership roles in "a significant paramilitary program." Aki Peritz is vice president of the Center for Intelligence Policy and a former counterterrorism analyst for the CIA. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose, the media and the IC need to communicate and sometimes compromise with each other.
Al Tarasiuk, the intelligence community's chief information officer, said the Intelligence Community IT Enterprise (ICITE) program is less about technology and more about getting widespread buy-in from the analysts and collectors.