Cybersecurity
Priscilla Guthrie to leave CIO job at ODNI, report says
The national intelligence director has announced Charlene Leubecker will be acting CIO.
Cybersecurity
OMB exec brings wide-angle lens to anti-terror unit
Mike Howell's move from OMB to the Information Sharing Environment could bolster that program and expand the administration's understanding of it, experts say.
Digital Government
New cyber role, budgetary measures headed to ODNI
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says he is creating new top-level jobs for cybersecurity and U.S. intelligence, and plans to move $50 billion from the Defense Department budget into his office.
Digital Government
Senate confirms Clapper as intell chief
The Senate has voted to confirm retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper as the country's fourth director of national intelligence.
Digital Government
Contractors in top secret programs may pose a major challenge for insourcing proponents
The explosive series of news articles currently running in The Washington Post—“Top Secret America”—is bound to add weight to the case against outsourcing.
Cybersecurity
Spymasters in search of forecasting software to enhance intell analysis
The research organization for intelligence agencies wants organizations to propose research to develop methods that provide more accurate, precise and timely intelligence forecasts.
Cybersecurity
Obama rockets to space with new policy
The Obama administration released a new policy for space exploration that calls for maintaining and enhancing space-based positioning, navigation, and timing systems, as well as protecting access to the radio-frequency spectrum.
Digital Government
Billions expected for cybersecurity research
The deputy director of national intelligence for acquisition and technology told a recent cybersecurity connference that her office and the White House Office of Science and Technology plan a multibillion dollar research project on cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity
Wanted: A better system for intelligence collection
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity's Smart Collection office wants to fund research into ways to make collected intelligence more valuable.
Cybersecurity
Officers to get guidelines for open-source intell
Officials are drawing up guidance and certifications for people in the country's intelligence agencies who develop open-source intelligence.
Cybersecurity
White House names new chief of terrorism-related info sharing environment
The Obama administration has named a new leader for an office tasked with improving how agencies share terrorism-related information.
Digital Government
Reduced funding might actually improve intelligence work
Declining budgets could force intelligence agencies to streamline redundant analysis systems.
Cybersecurity
Director of national intelligence and intell sharing to step down
The country's top intelligence official, who oversees programs to integrate intelligence agencies' information technology, is leaving the post.
Cybersecurity
Intell chief wants more information sharing
More integration between collection and analysis capabilities can be achieved by intelligence agencies during the next five years, the country's top intelligence officer said today.
Digital Government
Can virtual worlds create better spies?
The Office of the Director of National intelligence wants to harness virtual worlds to create better trained intell officers.
Digital Government
Does playing video games really make you smarter?
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency wants quantitative research on how immersion in virtual worlds affects real world performance.
Modernization
Information handcuffs: Counterterrorism IT needs support from the top, Congress told
Intelligence agencies face policy and privacy questions as they look to harness IT to fix problems identified after the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt.
Cybersecurity
U.S. would lose a cyber war, former intell chief warns
The country needs to make a national commitment to securing cyberspace before a catastropic attack occurs.
Digital Government
Former intell chief to talk cybersecurity
Former director of national intelligence Michael McConnell is scheduled to testify before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee about what is needed to protect the country's critical infrastructure from cyberthreats.
Cybersecurity
Cyber threat growing at unprecedented rate, intell chief says
Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair today gave a blunt assessment of the many cyber threats faced by U.S. government and private-sector networks.
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