Intelligence Community
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The Office of Intelligence and Analysis has come under criticism for both overreaching in its authorities, while failing to heed information about the 2021 Capitol riot.
September 25, 2023 -
The Navy Yard shooting was a "wake up call," in the words of one expert, for the government's security apparatus. Ten years later, ideas like continuous vetting have come to fruition.
September 18, 2023 -
The new concept, "Red Ventures," will help the NSA coordinate both internal ideas and work with outside partners on technology innovation.
September 13, 2023 -
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."
September 11, 2023 -
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."
August 29, 2023 -
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.
August 17, 2023 -
Intelligence agencies are bringing more of a top-down focus to open-source intelligence (OSINT).
August 14, 2023 -
The NSA's top official says the highly secretive agency is looking at how much work it can do outside of a SCIF.
August 10, 2023 -
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.
July 28, 2023 -
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin directed Pentagon officials to take a range of actions to tighten access to classified information.
July 21, 2023 -
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.
July 18, 2023 -
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
July 14, 2023 -
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.
July 05, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast, lawmakers are again trying to change how marijuana use factors into a security clearance decision.
June 29, 2023 -
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.
May 11, 2023