Intelligence and National Security Alliance

NSA getting ‘a lot more flexible’ under major workforce initiative

The director of the NSA’s “Future Ready Workforce” initiative says “we’ve got some room to grow in our telework functions.”

Inside the IC

GDIT president explains how empathetic and compassionate leadership affects workplace culture

Leaders and Legends

She’s retired from government, but not from national security

Intelligence Community

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cybersecurity, intelligence, network, computers, technology

WeWork for spies? Industry group pushes for classified co-working spaces

Inside the IC

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Intelligence agencies must transform acquisition

Commentary

FILE- This Jan. 21, 2017, file photo shows the floor of the main lobby of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va. The FBI “exercised remarkable caution and candor” in securing search warrants that led to espionage charges against a former CIA employee, prosecutors have told a federal judge presiding over the case. Prosecutors said a court hearing is not necessary to reject Joshua Adam Schulte’s claims that evidence should be tossed out because searches of his New York City residence and various electronic accounts were illegal. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

CIA aims to decrease median hiring time ‘by orders of magnitude’ by December

Intelligence Community

NSA

Intel community, awash in data, seeks in-demand talent to make sense of it

Hiring/Retention

New clearance ideas aim to make national security workforce more mobile, diverse

Inside the IC

New vetting guidelines set to advance security clearance reform ideas

Defense

Microsoft Federal Senior Account Executive Niloo Norton, and Account Technology Strategist Joel Day

The ‘EPIC’ app challenge is meant to showcase people’s cybersecurity skills

Cybersecurity

Contract awards in the intelligence community have slowed

Contracting

As the intelligence community returns to work, employees confront new anxieties

Agencies and contractors in the intelligence community are rearranging work schedules and office spaces to prepare for the phased reentry of their employees,…

Workforce

Could the pandemic force the intelligence community to reconsider workplace flexibilities?

The pandemic has shown federal and industry leaders in the intelligence community: the nature of classified work may be ripe for change.

Workforce

Vendors who can’t work due to coronavirus asking for more clarity, consistency

Reporter's Notebook

OMB released much-anticipated guidance giving agencies important direction for how they should implement the provision in the stimulus bill that lets agencies pay contractors to keep them in a state of ready.