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Frank Calvelli, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisitions and Integration, visits the Space Development Agency, Sept. 30, 2022. (Courtesy Photo/SDA)

Space Operations

Space acquisition chief moves to streamline contracting process

Space Force wants its contract officers to demand better results and faster deliveries.

Federal Insights

Delivering on artificial intelligence’s potential

Space Operations

Space Force moves to consolidate its intelligence community

Hiring/Retention

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

Intelligence Community

NRO, NGA expanding commercial industry partnerships with new awards in the works

Federal Newscast

SBA names its third CIO in two years

Intelligence Community

NRO director touts expanding commercial satellite partnerships

Federal Newscast

GSA's chief information officer is on a hiring spree

Intelligence Community

Two agency inspectors general got salaries that busted legal limits on political employee pay

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2020, file photo, a video surveillance camera is installed on the ceiling above a subway platform in the Court Street station in the Brooklyn borough of New York. State lawmakers across the U.S. are reconsidering the tradeoffs of facial recognition technology amid civil rights and racial bias concerns. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Federal Newscast

Biden administration trying to find happy medium when it comes to facial recognition

Intelligence Community

Five key provisions in the just-signed 2022 intelligence authorization bill

This Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022, satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the close up of helicopters and troops near Lake Donuzlav, Crimea. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP)

Inside the IC

NGA developing commercial buying guide for satellite imagery

Inside the IC

NRO looks to ease companies in the door with tiered cybersecurity requirements

A truck-mounted radar instrument called the Doppler On Wheels is silhouetted against cloudy skies Friday, Nov. 6, 2015, on the banks of Lake Quinault near Amanda Park, Wash. Led by NASA and hosted by the University of Washington, a team of meteorologists and scientists is fanning out across one of the wettest places in the country in November to measure raindrops and snowdrops and attempt to validate, on the ground, how well global satellites measure precipitation from space. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Intelligence Community

NRO inks first contracts under new commercial space capabilities opening

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks as FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

Federal Newscast

Senator looking into potential pay abuse at ATF

Space Operations

NGA looks to corral satellite imagery, other data in push for ‘synthetic persistence’

Europe viewed from space at night with city lights in European Union member states, global EU business and finance, satellite communication technology, 3D render of planet Earth, world map from NASA (https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/57000/57752/land_shallow_topo_2048.jpg)

Space Operations

Secretive satellite agency opens up to industry with new contract vehicle

This Dec. 11, 2020, satellite photo by Maxar Technologies shows construction at Iran's Fordo nuclear facility. Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo amid tensions with the U.S. over its atomic program, satellite photos obtained Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, by The Associated Press show. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Technology

Intel leaders pledge to reduce barriers, regulations for commercial GEOINT industry

Men is typing on laptop computer keyboard

Workforce

When it comes to the workplace, even the intelligence community is going 'hybrid'

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Ask the CIO

From RPA to cybersecurity, CIOs overcame ever-changing challenges in 2020

Defense

Move over COVID, IC says influence operations will be next big disrupter

Mike Ryan (right) is the deputy chief information security officer at NRO and Chris Brown (middle) is the deputy CISO at NGA

Ask the CIO

NGA, NRO managing cyber risk through more data-driven, collaborative approaches

Space Command

Defense News

First Look Inside the Space Force's push to integrate and change acquisition