Modernization
Ball Aerospace nabs sole-source NGA cloud deal
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency intends to award a one-year sole-source contract to Ball Aerospace Technologies Corp. for cloud computing, the agency announced.
Cybersecurity
Intel officials dwell on encryption as a potential security problem
FBI Director James Comey and other senior intelligence leaders told Congress that the use of encrypted communications by terrorists and other adversaries remains a problem for investigators.
Cybersecurity
Russia, China continue to pose cyber threat to U.S. networks
Top intelligence officials tell a Senate committee they remain wary of ever-growing cybersecurity risks.
Cybersecurity
NSA’s Information Assurance Directorate at a crossroads
Although often overshadowed by the far bigger Signals Intelligence Directorate, IAD’s mission of protecting sensitive information on government networks is more important than ever.
Cybersecurity
White House announces new agency to handle federal background checks
OPM will house the new National Background Investigations Bureau, but the new agency's IT and cybersecurity work will be handled by the Defense Department.
Cybersecurity
What's missing in the new NSA report?
The NSA released a required report on surveillance transparency, but many questions remain unanswered about how the spy agency is querying vast troves of telephonic metadata.
Cybersecurity
Capitol Hill privacy advocates launch effort to repeal CISA
A bipartisan group of lawmakers are introducing legislation to repeal the Cyber Information Sharing Act of 2015, which hitched a ride on the omnibus bill at the end of 2015.
Cybersecurity
IARPA taps Dixon as deputy director
Stacey Dixon, most recently a deputy director at NGA, has significant Capitol Hill experience.
Cybersecurity
DNI announces CTIIC leadership
Tonya Ugoretz, a career FBI analyst, and Maurice Bland, a retired Army colonel, will lead the nascent Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center.
Cybersecurity
Cyber threat agency navigates growing pains
The White House's plan for fusing cyber intelligence after the massive hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment got off to a rocky start, but an insider says agency turf battles that appeared ready to unfold have been quieted.
Cybersecurity
Info-sharing bill's advance is a landmark for DHS
The inclusion of cybersecurity information-sharing legislation in an omnibus package is a milestone in the Department of Homeland Security's evolving collaboration with the private sector on cyber.
Cybersecurity
Rogers pushes NSA to lead on ICITE, previews agency reorg
The National Security Agency's technological prowess means the agency must lead on an intelligence community-wide IT architecture, Director Adm. Michael Rogers said Dec. 15.
Modernization
DOD looking to put classified data in commercial cloud
Rob Vietmeyer, DOD CIO's point man on cloud, said it could be over a year before a commercial cloud provider handles Level 6 data
Modernization
Clapper memo outlines ICITE architecture
A document release reveals more details on the cloud-based Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise.
Cybersecurity
Cyber bill vote in sight
Members of the House and Senate intelligence committees are in talks to iron out the final details of the cybersecurity bill.
Modernization
NSA's bulk data program is shut down
The National Security Agency is replacing a controversial spying program with a new data collection regime approved under the USA Freedom Act.
Cybersecurity
NGA sees urgency in harnessing commercial geoint capabilities
At a Nov. 16 small satellite workshop at NGA headquarters, Director Robert Cardillo said his agency must hitch itself to the explosion in commercial geospatial capabilities.
Cybersecurity
Governance lags tech on info sharing, CIA's Brennan says
The CIA director warns that the rapid technological improvements in spycraft and information collection have outpaced the ability of worldwide intel agencies to cooperate.
Cybersecurity
Obama on Facebook, DHS form woes and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
CIA official looks to free 'captive' data
The CIA's new head of digital innovation wants to unsilo the spy agency's data. That problem is so big and complicated that a whole new organization has been created to solve it.
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