Artificial Intelligence
Cyber Spies Don’t Have to Worry About Robots Taking Their Jobs, Intel Chief Says
The intelligence community will still need human analysts even as when machine learning does more, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told students.
Cybersecurity
Security clearance backlog drops 9 percent
An interagency council credits a series of changes instituted to the security clearance process this year with the first drop unprocessed background investigations in years.
Emerging Tech
Lawmakers Want the Intel Community's Plan for Dealing with Fake Videos
The era of fake video is here. What now?
Digital Government
How One Company Aims to Model the World—and All Its Activity—in the Cloud
Descartes Labs is building a platform to let the Pentagon analyze all the geospatial intelligence, all the time.
Artificial Intelligence
3 Ways Intelligence Agencies Are Using AI
The intelligence community is using artificial intelligence to help manage the exponential increase of data.
Modernization
ICITE shifts to reference architecture
The Intelligence Community's use of a common desktop put some applications at risk, a top ODNI tech official said, and a reference architecture approach could prove more accommodating.
Digital Government
$600 Million Satellite Imagery Contract Shifts from One Intel Agency to Another
Management of the EnhancedView commercial satellite imagery contract shifted from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to the National Reconnaissance Office.
Cybersecurity
Online influence isn't just about elections, intel chief says
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats highlighted foreign information operations as a key priority.
Cybersecurity
Court case puts PRISM back in the spotlight
An appeals court heard arguments Aug. 22 on a case that has broad implications for digital privacy and the constitutionality of government surveillance authorities.
Digital Government
Nearly 200 Former CIA Agents, Navy Officers, Ambassadors, and DOJ Officials Condemn Trump’s Brennan Action
Donald Trump recently stripped the ex-CIA director of his security clearance.
Cybersecurity
The disinformation game
The federal government is poised to bring new tools and strategies to bear in the fight against foreign-backed online disinformation campaigns, but how and when they choose to act could have ramifications on the U.S. political ecosystem.
Cybersecurity
The U.S. Is Worried That a Russian Satellite Is Really a Weapon
American intelligence agencies have reason to believe the satellite may be surveilling U.S. space assets.
Digital Government
Industry Groups Push for Background Check Reform In Intelligence Appropriations Bill
With a backlog of more than 700,000 pending investigations, the groups are pushing for tools to speed up information collection and ways to reduce redundant investigations.
Cybersecurity
One Agency Plans to Lock Employees In a Room Until They Learn Cyber Hygiene
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will be locking employees in escape rooms to test their knowledge of cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity
Economic cyber espionage will only get worse, ODNI report says
A new report says companies in the IT, defense, energy, biotechnology, environmental protection and manufacturing sectors have the most to fear from nation-state groups looking to conduct economic cyber espionage.
Cybersecurity
NSA Hasn’t Implemented Post-Snowden Security Fixes, Audit Finds
The spy agency also fell short on numerous information security requirements, according to its first public audit overview.
Artificial Intelligence
Pentagon Plans to Publish Broad Artificial Intelligence Strategy ‘Within Weeks’
The report will focus on long-term plans and how it will funnel resources to developing the technology, a Defense official said.
Cybersecurity
Why it's time for a major tech overhaul of the classification system
In a new report, the chief of the Information Security Oversight Office warns that the system by which critical security information is created, classified and shared is overburdened by a reliance on paper, legacy policies and incompatible tech.
Modernization
CIA Official: Cloud Is More Secure Than Old Tech, Less 'Soul-Crushing'
Is cloud more secure than traditional government data centers? The CIA seems to think so.
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