Intelligence and National Security Alliance

New vetting guidelines set to advance security clearance reform ideas

The Biden administration is carrying the “Trusted Workforce 2.0” vetting reform effort forward.

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

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

Workforce

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

Workforce

AP/Al Drago

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

Reporter's Notebook

Telework cybersecurity guidance could be on the way

Federal Newscast

Telework during a coronavirus outbreak? Not usually an option for classified federal workers

Contracting

Despite ‘consensus’ with DoD, ODNI moving ahead with its own AI principles

Artificial Intelligence

Commerce IG auditing Census Bureau’s cybersecurity ahead of 2020 count

Federal Newscast

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DoD unveils new cybersecurity certification model for contractors

Defense

In this Jan. 27, 2018, photo, U.S. Army soldiers speak to families in rural Anbar on a reconnaissance patrol near a coalition outpost in western Iraq. A few hundred American troops are stationed at a small outpost near the town of Qaim along Iraq's border with Syria. Thousands of U.S. troops and billions of dollars spent by Washington helped bring down the Islamic State group in Iraq, but many of the divisions and problems that helped fuel the extremists’ rise remain. (AP Photo/Susannah George)

Pentagon delaying major change to Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Defense Department is putting off the elimination of a major benefit for post 9/11 veterans.

Federal Newscast

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Agencies losing time, talent and money due to security clearance reciprocity challenges

Industry leaders say up to 10% of their cleared intelligence community workforces are idle at any given time, because they’re waiting for agencies to grant,…

Workforce

Why the Navy is giving agencies, industry a much-needed wake-up call on supply chain risks

Acquisition

Bill Evanina of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center warned that public and private sector companies shouldn’t become numb to growing supply chain attacks.