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A new presidential policy directive, which the White House released July 26, describes the roles agencies must take when responding to major cyber incidents. The departments of justice and homeland security, as well as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, have specific jobs in working with other federal agencies and industry.
Legal experts across Washington are questioning whether FBI Director James Comey should have publicly made a recommendation to prosecutors about whether to go after Hillary Clinton for the way she handled State Department email and classified information. Steve Ryan, a partner at McDermott, Will and Emory, and a former federal prosecutor, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer his take.
These episodes tug on that tension line between political appointees and career people.
The FBI is the lead investigating agency in the Orlando, Florida mass shooting. Less visible is that the FBI also provides a range of services to victims of terrorism and mass violent crimes. Services include crisis canines and a victims assistance webpage. Kathryn Turman, assistant director of the FBI's office of victims assistance, shares what's going on in Orlando on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
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.
The department's Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) now has the ability to give access to users based on their job functions and attributes, not merely the person's name or employee number. Donna Roy, executive director of the Information Sharing Environment Office at DHS, said that capability is helping the department build trusted identity exchanges.
Director James Comey announced to staff that Gordon Bitko has been chosen to be the new CIO.
Today, law enforcement agencies look to technologies, such as body-worn cameras, to reduce crime. However, while body-worn cameras provide public safety benefits, they also create a new type of public safety challenge: data security.
The Air Force and FBI are adapting their approaches to enterprise IT to become more agile.
Depending on whose numbers you believe, federal workers are either overpaid by 34 percent or underpaid by 25 percent compared to the private sector.
While the FBI remains in the planning stages of its new headquarters construction project, the agency's new biometrics technology center has been working on projects to build on the breakthrough successes it's had with fingerprint technology.
I see the FBI-Apple dispute as a cyber version of the "ticking bomb" conundrum: What means are justified to get information from a terrorist when you know there is a bomb ticking somewhere about to kill innocent people?
FBI Director Jim Comey should drive out to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency campus on the outskirts of Fort Belvoir.
Given the Washington area’s notorious gridlock getting to work intact is a challenge on a good day. After a couple of feet of snow ...