James Clapper

  • After a decade of uninterrupted spending growth, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has submitted budget cutting plans for intelligence agencies to the White House. The intelligence community will try to save money mostly through IT efficiencies, and will try to protect its civilian workforce while drawing down on its reliance upon contractors.

    October 18, 2011
  • The Defense Intelligence Agency is now 50 years old, but its current and former leaders say the last 10 have come to define it as an agency.

    September 30, 2011
  • Fears that the leak of thousands of State Department memos to the website WikiLeaks would reverse progress on interagency sharing of national security information have not materialized, officials testified Thursday. Agencies have responded by recognizing the need to protect data rather than by hoarding it, they said.

    March 11, 2011
  • By John Buckner Federal News Radio The Senate confirmed Stephanie O’Sullivan to the second highest position in the intelligence community as principle deputy to the Director of National Intelligence. She reports to Director of National…

    February 18, 2011
  • The Office of the Director for National Intelligence has a new chief information officer - Al Tarasiuk.

    February 17, 2011
  • By Jolie Lee Federal News Radio The threat of cyber war is increasing, said James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, in comments to a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday. CIA Chief Leon Panetta said…

    February 10, 2011
  • Government making progress on cutting clearance times, but member of Congress fear backsliding.

    November 22, 2010
  • Priscilla Guthrie spent about 18 months as CIO before stepping down effective Friday.

    November 16, 2010
  • So far, the Pentagon has not reported any incidents of reprisals against Afghans named in the documents exposed by the Wikileaks website, but it has sparked new questions about how far to go in sharing sensitive information within the government, a practice that expanded after Sept. 11, 2001, in order to help prevent future terrorist attacks. In a speech recently, director of national intelligence, James Clapper, called the July leaks \"a big yellow flag\" for those concerned about protecting classified information.

    October 18, 2010