The new concept, "Red Ventures," will help the NSA coordinate both internal ideas and work with outside partners on technology innovation.
The Army's deputy chief of staff for intelligence says military leaders need to understand both the value of OSINT, as well as "how carefully it has to be managed and implemented."
Agencies are taking some steps to make the vetting process easier, but RAND finds there isn't a cross-government approach to improving the "candidate experience."
In today's Federal Newscast: Congress weighs-in on the process of how agencies are moving to the cloud. Mental-health struggles remain a concern for those seeking security clearances. And feds get a little boost in their reimbursable travel allowance.
Intelligence agencies are bringing more of a top-down focus to open-source intelligence (OSINT).
The NSA's top official says the highly secretive agency is looking at how much work it can do outside of a SCIF.
Agencies would also have to set up a process for reconsidering decisions that denied someone a job or clearance over weed use dating back to 2008.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin directed Pentagon officials to take a range of actions to tighten access to classified information.
In today's Federal Newscast: USAID has put a policy in place to limit telework. Congress moves to reduce employment barriers for military spouses when a service member receives relocation orders. And the intelligence community gets new hiring incentives.
The intelligence community is grappling, like many industries and society at large, with rapid advances in large language models and generative artificial intelligence over the past nine months
The Pentagon is taking steps to tighten access to classified info and share more information about security clearance holders across the department in the wake of the Discord leaks.
In today's Federal Newscast, lawmakers are again trying to change how marijuana use factors into a security clearance decision.
A pair of bills sponsored by four senior Senate Intelligence Committee members seek to add more governance, training and accountability to the government's security classification system.
Many young people are confused about whether past marijuana use prevents them from getting a security clearance. And others say they wouldn't stop using to obtain a clearance.
After 21-year-old Jack Teixeira was arrested for allegedly leaking classified info, the Pentagon is looking at what it can do to prevent similar situations in the future.