National Reconnaissance Office

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

The inspectors general for two intelligence agencies were each overpaid by tens of thousands of dollars between 2016 and 2020.

Intelligence Community

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)

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

Federal Newscast

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

Intelligence Community

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)

NGA developing commercial buying guide for satellite imagery

Inside the IC

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

Inside the IC

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)

NRO inks first contracts under new commercial space capabilities opening

Intelligence Community

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)

Senator looking into potential pay abuse at ATF

Federal Newscast

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

Space Operations

Secretive satellite agency opens up to industry with new contract vehicle

Space Operations

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)

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

Technology

Men is typing on laptop computer keyboard

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

Workforce

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

Interviews with technology executives from VA, NGA and DISA were the three most popular Ask the CIO interviews of 2020 proving the trend that automation,…

Ask the CIO

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

The intelligence community expects information warfare to be the next big disrupter as the cyber domain becomes more contested, and industry becomes part…

Defense

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

Ask the CIO

Deputy chief information security officers at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office say they are in the middle of expanding and maturing their approaches to cybersecurity.