Intelligence Agencies

Worried that your TV is listening to you? IARPA wants to safeguard your voice

The intelligence community’s research agency wants to develop technology to anonymize voices recorded by electronic devices and help safeguard privacy.

  • By Carten Cordell

How DISA plans to use its workforce to combat China and global adversaries

The Defense Information Systems Agency’s Workforce 2025 framework is designed to help the agency attract and retain a workforce that “adapts to the ever-changing landscape of IT and cyberspace.”

  • By Edward Graham

A ‘stronger, faster’ intelligence community is possible with AI

But caution is needed to make sure the technology doesn’t go off the rails.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Bipartisan group looks to fix 'hopelessly obsolete' classification system

Legislation is aimed at reducing over-classification and improving the handling of secrets.

  • By Courtney Bublé

21-year-old Air Force IT specialist charged with leaking classified documents

A team of Justice and FBI agents arrested 21-year-old Jack Teixeira in Massachusetts in connection with the widespread intel leak.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

IARPA's plan to hack the brains of hackers

The intelligence research agency released a broad agency announcement on Tuesday for a program that looks to leverage psychological biases among hackers for cyber defense.

  • By Carten Cordell

The great power pivot and the intelligence community

The shift from terrorism to great power competition means changes in tech, acquisition and private-sector partnerships.

  • By Chris Riotta

Feds mull changes to cannabis questions on vetting forms

A plan to modernize intake forms for candidates for government service could include revisions to the type of questions asked about marijuana use.

  • By Natalie Alms

A wireless intelligence community ‘on the horizon,' official says

Getting there is a matter of appropriately protecting data and tweaking policies to allow for wireless secret- and top-secret networks.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

NGA wants industry info for cloud-based architecture plans

A proposed system would allow the agency to automate how it processes a range of data and shares it throughout the intelligence community.

  • By Carten Cordell

Sharing secrets has been ‘effective’ against Russia, but the tactic has limits, CIA chief says

It’s just one of the new areas for a spy agency grappling with tech-driven changes.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

NSA re-awards secret $10 Billion contract to Amazon

Amazon Web Services beat out Microsoft for the contract after a bid protest battle.

  • By Frank Konkel

IARPA previews busy research season

The agency’s long tech wish list includes capabilities that can predict human movement and new computing architectures to crunch its mountain of data.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

NGA looks to tech to support unclassified workforce

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is looking to the future with plans to accommodate uncleared employees and to be prepared for "a changing world environment that we don't anticipate," said Mark Andress, the agency's CIO.

  • By Lauren C. Williams
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How cyber gray zone conflict can shape conventional war

As gray zone conflict becomes the norm, the intelligence community may have to make some changes to adapt.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Zero-trust has a branding problem

A zero-trust approach to cybersecurity is intended to increase vigilance and minimize risk, but without the necessary context, the concept could raise discomfort or even hostility among federal workers.

  • By Jim Richberg

IC leaders drill in on diversity issues at House hearing

Although there have been some gains in the representation of women and minorities in the IC workforce overall, the highest ranks are less diverse.

  • By Natalie Alms

CISA chief: Cyber incident reporting can't become a burden

Jen Easterly, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, stressed the importance of cyber incident reporting but said mandates should be careful of potentially overburdening companies -- and CISA -- with "reporting noise."

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Microsoft touts top secret cloud ATO

Azure Government Top Secret is now "generally available" for national security workloads, Microsoft announced in a blog post.

  • By Adam Mazmanian

Senate panel wants DHS to focus intel activities on foreign threats

The Senate version of the annual intelligence authorization bill, which passed out of committee last week, includes a warning to DHS' intelligence arm to distinguish more carefully between its foreign and domestic missions.

  • By Adam Mazmanian

Lawmakers seek IG probes of telework cybersecurity

A group of House lawmakers are calling on the inspectors general of nine executive departments and the intelligence community to see what cybersecurity vulnerabilities may have arisen due to the mass increase of telework during the coronavirus pandemic.

  • By Justin Katz