Cybersecurity
NSA Isn’t Always Following Its Own Cybersecurity Policies, Watchdog Says
The NSA Inspector General found the agency has “room for improvement” in every IT security category outlined in FISMA.
Cybersecurity
Data-crunching spies of the future
The U.S. intelligence community is attempting to transform the way it uses and manages digital information.
Emerging Tech
The Intelligence Community Wants to Hear Your Cutting-Edge Tech Pitch
ODNI is expanding one of its major vendor outreach programs to speed up adoption of emerging tech and modernize the intelligence community’s IT infrastructure.
Cybersecurity
JEDI and C2E: Is it worth comparing the DOD and ODNI cloud plans?
The intelligence community's top IT official said that DOD is "where we were five years ago" when the CIA opted to pursue a single vendor, single cloud solution.
Artificial Intelligence
Spy Agencies Turn to AI to Stay Ahead of Adversaries
In a world where everyone can collect data on everything, speedy analysis could make or break U.S. national security, a top intelligence official says.
Cybersecurity
House set to vote on surveillance restrictions
An amendment introduced by Reps. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) would further limit the government's use of foreign surveillance laws to search and use the digital communications of U.S. citizens and residents.
Cybersecurity
IARPA wants old tech data
Intelligence community researchers want to put some data behind IT and other technologies' performance over the years to see how they might work out down the line.
Modernization
Top U.S. Intelligence Official Says Cloud ‘One of Best Decisions We Made’
Cloud computing is changing the way U.S. spy agencies meet their missions.
Cybersecurity
NSA Issues Warning to Patch Legacy Windows Systems Over ‘Wormable’ Threat
The National Security Agency is warning Microsoft Windows administrators to patch and update systems due to a new vulnerability called “BlueKeep.”
Artificial Intelligence
How the CIA is Working to Ethically Deploy Artificial Intelligence
As the agency utilizes new technology, insiders are thinking critically about issues around privacy and bias.
Cybersecurity
Secrecy impinges on surveillance lawsuit against NSA
Government lawyers pressed the court to throw out a lawsuit challenging its "Upstream" surveillance program, saying the plaintiffs can't prove their communications were being collected.
Cybersecurity
NSA Deflects Blame for Baltimore Ransomware Attack
The city of Baltimore had more than two years to defend itself against the attack, and it’s officials’ fault they dropped the ball, according to NSA cyber chief Rob Joyce.
Modernization
CIA looks to partner with tech
With China gaining ground in high tech, the CIA sees industry partnerships as increasingly important.
Cybersecurity
Can the IC police foreign disinformation on social media?
The latest Intelligence Authorization bill includes $30 million for a new research center where social media companies, researchers and journalists work together to study and expose online disinformation campaigns.
Emerging Tech
NRO Is Offering $500K For Experimental Surveillance Tech
The National Reconnaissance Office revealed six areas for the 2019 cohort of the Director’s Innovation Initiative.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers Want Spy Agencies to Help Secure Government Tech and Elections
The Intelligence Authorization Act would increase the IC’s involvement in a number of federal tech and cyber efforts.
Artificial Intelligence
IARPA Needs More Training Data for Video Surveillance Algorithms
The data would improve the tech’s ability to link together footage shot across a broad geographic space, allowing it to better track and identify potential targets.
Policy
Lawmakers Demand Details on NSA’s Sweeping Phone Surveillance Operations
The Call Detail Record program, which scoops up the phone records of millions of Americans, is set to expire at the end of 2019.
Digital Government
Senators want answers on expiring NSA surveillance program
A group of senators are asking the National Security Agency for an update on the current status of its controversial bulk telephony metadata collection program.
Digital Government
CIA Veteran Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Help China
Jerry Lee took cash “for life” in exchange for delivering secret U.S. intelligence.
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