IARPA, Amon-Hen & Aladdin: Next Gen Intel

IARPA, Amon-Hen & Aladdin: Next Gen Intel
IARPA, Amon-Hen & Aladdin: Next Gen Intel

CORRECTED: NPOI Remains In Use For SSA GEOINT: Think about technology to identify suicide bombers and high value targets who’ve been blown to bits without using DNA. The Intelligence Community’s version of DARPA, IARPA, is doing just that with a program designed to use proteins from hair and keratin (which makes up much of the…

First Woman To Head Intel Agency Passes Torch; Cardillo Takes NGA Reins

First Woman To Head Intel Agency Passes Torch; Cardillo Takes NGA Reins
First Woman To Head Intel Agency Passes Torch; Cardillo Takes NGA Reins

NGA HEADQUARTERS: It’s not often defense reporters listen to a beautifully restrained brass quintet while working. But Tish Long, the outgoing director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, brought that kind of glamor to the increasingly crucial NGA, so we did get to listen to a unique and pleasing rendition of God Bless America, among other…

NSA Director Implies ISIL Intel Estimates Could Have Been Better

NSA Director Implies ISIL Intel Estimates Could Have Been Better
NSA Director Implies ISIL Intel Estimates Could Have Been Better

WASHINGTON: How well did the American Intelligence Community do in its most fundamental job: providing strategic warning of war and major strategic events to the president when it came to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and ISIL’s invasion of Iraq? The heads of the Central Intelligence, Defense Intelligence, National Geospatial Intelligence and National Security agencies claimed today…

Tish Long Leaving NGA; DNI’s Robert Cardillo Will Be New Director

Tish Long Leaving NGA; DNI’s Robert Cardillo Will Be New Director
Tish Long Leaving NGA; DNI’s Robert Cardillo Will Be New Director

UPDATED: With DNI Clapper’s Comments WASHINGTON: Robert Cardillo, the man who has organized President Obama’s daily intelligence briefing and brought the first tablet to the White House for a president to see intelligence product firsthand, will be named the new director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Cardillo, the current Deputy Director of National Intelligence for…

NGA Chief Moves $Millions To Build Futuristic Intel Tools: The Globe

NGA Chief Moves $Millions To Build Futuristic Intel Tools: The Globe
NGA Chief Moves $Millions To Build Futuristic Intel Tools: The Globe

TAMPA: It’s the stuff of science fiction: intelligence analysts hands spinning a shimmering virtual globe and pulling strands of complex streams of data over it to build a three-dimensional planning model which they can share with soldiers on the battlefield. It’s clear the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is nowhere near deploying such capabilities, but its…

‘Concerns’ Raised About Commercial Spy Satellite Merger, But No Showstoppers: NGA Director Long

ORLANDO: (Story Delayed Due to Software Problems) A study by the intelligence community raised industrial base “concerns” about the merger between commercial spy satellite companies GeoEye and DigitalGlobe but found no showstoppers. That’s the word from Letitia Long, director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA). I asked Long today if industrial base issues had…