Pete Muend

cybersecurity, intelligence, network, computers, technology

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

Spy agencies are ramping up partnerships with the commercial space industry and using artificial intelligence to help sort through all the data.

Intelligence Community

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

Inside the IC

FILE - This Friday Jan. 11, 2013 file photo of a member of the Cybercrime Center as he turns on the light in a lab during a media tour at the occasion of the official opening of the Cybercrime Center at Europol headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands. Criminals have spotted a new business opportunity with the coronavirus pandemic and are now plundering the needy and the fearful and even disrupting the medical sector, online and off, with fraud, counterfeit products and cybercrime, a report issued Friday by the European law enforcement agency Europol says. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

A new mechanism to help agencies avoid buying counterfeit products

Federal Newscast

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

Secretive satellite agency opens up to industry with new contract vehicle

Space Operations