The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) have announced a new collaboration between the two organizations that aims to embrace innovative technologies for bolstering national security. […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its annual intelligence community (IC) threat assessment on Monday, revealing that China, Russia, and Iran are capable of disrupting the U.S. 2024 election cycle. […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) unveiled its 2024-2026 Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Strategy for the Intelligence Community (IC) last week, laying the path to modernize its approach to collecting, creating, and delivering OSINT. […]
The intelligence community (IC) has a data challenge — specifically overflowing streams of data — and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies could be a solution to meeting that challenge. But to leverage that solution the IC needs to format data so that it’s receptive in AI-driven solutions, a top intelligence official said today. […]
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) – the research and development arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence – has awarded four-year contracts to five companies to help kickstart a new project to study the psychology of hackers and to determine how to better blunt attacks. […]
While the government’s security clearance and other personnel vetting processes help to ensure Federal employees are trustworthy, a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that the Federal government lacks consistent and complete data on how these processes work. […]
The National Security Agency (NSA), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released a new report providing guidance on industry best practices on open source software and software bills of materials (SBOM). […]
With growing interest by the Pentagon and intelligence agencies in remote sensing data and analytic services offered by commercial providers, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is calling on industry to provide it with information about barriers that have been encountered in procurement processes. […]
The Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, today released a new strategy providing the intelligence community (IC) with directions on how to navigate the next four years in national intelligence. […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has awarded a $375 million prime contract to Leidos to help the agency with intelligence, technical, financial, and management services, according to a July 19 press release. […]
A top artificial intelligence (AI) leader within the U.S. intelligence community (IC) said on July 15 that the IC – which includes a conglomerate of agencies, including big wigs like the CIA and FBI – has been discussing adopting an “AI-First IC” strategy. […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is preparing to release a brand-new National Intelligence Strategy (NIS), providing the Intelligence Community (IC) with strategic direction for the next four years. […]
Some government officials are looking at college athletes as a new prospective pool of candidates to serve as future leaders and employees within the intelligence community (IC), according to one official. […]
The Pentagon on Jan. 12 released its long-awaited 2022 report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) – more commonly known as UFOs – which details 510 incidents, with many of those occurring in sensitive military airspace. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) along with the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) published the final part of the three-part series on securing supply chains on Nov. 17. […]
The Federal government has come a long way with implementing zero trust security architectures, but Federal chief information officers (CIOs) and chief information security officers (CISOs) hope the future of zero trust is “instinctive,” and something that is naturally baked into agencies’ programming. […]
The Office for the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) report that details intelligence agencies’ surveillance practices annually shows that the FBI ran approximately 3.4 million searches against U.S. citizens using data collected from Section 702 inquiries without a warrant. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is partnering with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to promote a call to action for organizations to focus on protecting information and communications technology (ICT) supply chains, under the banner “Fortify the Chain.” […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) Science and Technology Group (STG) is seeking feedback on its Fiscal Year (FY) 2022-2026 Science and Technology (S&T) Investment Landscape, which sets a pathway for its S&T investment portfolio over the next four fiscal years, according to a request for information (RFI) published last month. […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has a new election threats head with the hiring of Jeffrey Wichman as its Intelligence Community Election Threats Executive. […]
The State Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) said in a new report that it found deficiencies in State’s reporting of security clearance data to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) during fiscal year 2019. […]
President Biden intends to nominate Stacey Dixon, an intelligence community veteran and current deputy director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), to serve as the principal deputy director in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the White House announced today. […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) warned in an April 13 report that the United States and its allies face “a diverse array” of threats to national security, including increased cyber threats from adversaries. […]
The White House said President Biden plans to nominate Christy Abizaid to become director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) housed within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). […]
President Biden announced today he will nominate Christopher Fonzone – who brings expertise in IT and cybersecurity legal issues – to serve as general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). […]
Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., the committee’s ranking member, are urging the Biden administration to “assign a clear leader” to lead the United States’ response to the Russia-backed hack of thousands of government and private-sector networks via SolarWinds Orion products. […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is stepping up its social media game by launching an Instagram account, giving its followers an inside look at DNI Avril Haines’ workday. […]
William Evanina has stepped down as director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), after six years at the helm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) component that has the leading counterintelligence activities role in defending the intelligence collecting Federal government and private-sector entities that face risk of attack by foreign adversaries. […]
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the research arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, has launched a multi-year research effort aimed at expanding wide-area satellite imagery technologies. […]
Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies said today they believe that “fewer than ten” Federal agencies have been targeted by “follow-on” activity after initial breaches in the Russia-directed hacking of government networks via SolarWinds Orion products. […]