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Inside the IC explores how U.S. intelligence agencies are adapting to 21st century challenges. The show features interviews with intelligence community leaders and experts about their most pressing issues involving technology, workforce, and management.

     
  • An interview with NIST’s outgoing cyber workforce director
    Over his decade of service at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Rodney Petersen has had a front row seat to the evolving state of the cyber workforce across government, industry and academia. In…
    December 29, 2025
  • Grappling with a shortage of cleared workers
    Tim Brennan, VP of technology policy and government relations at the Professional Services Council, joins me to discuss the latest legislative proposals to help streamline the gargantuan security clearance process. One of the priorities for…
    August 14, 2025
  • Former officials debate OSINT in the IC
    Open-source intelligence, or OSINT, has reached an inflection point in the IC. Several agencies in recent years have published strategies aimed at better harnessing OSINT. Now, they’re embarking on new initiatives to improve data collection…
    July 8, 2025
  • Espionage operations targeting laid off feds
    The widespread layoffs and resignations unfolding across the federal government represent a prime opportunity for foreign spy agencies. In an April bulletin, the National Counterintelligence and Security Center warned that foreign intelligence organizations are targeting…
    May 27, 2025
  • Ethics and intelligence: Tradecraft in the age of AI
    Cortney Weinbaum, a senior management scientist at RAND, joins the show to discuss her recent paper, “Intelligence officers have an ethical responsibility to use tradecraft.” Countless professional disciplines have a code of ethics. But such…
    March 10, 2025
  • Ethics and intelligence: Tradecraft in the age of AI
    Cortney Weinbaum, a senior management scientist at RAND, joins the show to discuss her recent paper, “Intelligence officers have an ethical responsibility to use tradecraft.” Countless professional disciplines have a code of ethics. But such…
    March 10, 2025
  • Ethics and intelligence: Tradecraft in the age of AI
    Cortney Weinbaum, a senior management scientist at RAND, joins the show to discuss her recent paper, “Intelligence officers have an ethical responsibility to use tradecraft.” Countless professional disciplines have a code of ethics. But such…
    March 10, 2025
  • ‘Still work to be done’ on security clearance reform efforts
    The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has a slate of recommendations for the incoming Trump administration. They touch on how the IC could make progress on hiring, personnel vetting (security clearances), AI skills and open…
    January 24, 2025
  • ‘Still work to be done’ on security clearance reform efforts
    The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has a slate of recommendations for the incoming Trump administration. They touch on how the IC could make progress on hiring, personnel vetting (security clearances), AI skills and open…
    January 17, 2025
  • The intelligence community has a big new tech strategy
    The intelligence community has laid out new priorities for the cloud, AI, cybersecurity and more in a new “Information Technology Roadmap” released in late May. The IC’s Chief Information Officer, Adele Merritt, joined the show…
    June 27, 2024
  • The intelligence community has a big new tech strategy
    The intelligence community has laid out new priorities for the cloud, AI, cybersecurity and more in a new “Information Technology Roadmap” released in late May. The IC’s Chief Information Officer, Adele Merritt, joined the show…
    June 27, 2024
  • The intelligence community has a big new tech strategy
    The intelligence community has laid out new priorities for the cloud, AI, cybersecurity and more in a new “Information Technology Roadmap” released in late May. The IC’s Chief Information Officer, Adele Merritt, joined the show…
    June 27, 2024
  • The State Department has a new OSINT strategy
    On the heels of a new intelligence community-wide open-source intelligence strategy . . . the State Department now has its own OSINT strategy. The Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) uses OSINT to inform U.S.…
    May 28, 2024
  • The State Department has a new OSINT strategy
    On the heels of a new intelligence community-wide open-source intelligence strategy . . . the State Department now has its own OSINT strategy. The Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) uses OSINT to inform U.S.…
    May 28, 2024