EXCLUSIVE: NRO, SPACECOM Craft CONOPS For War In Space

EXCLUSIVE: NRO, SPACECOM Craft CONOPS For War In Space
EXCLUSIVE: NRO, SPACECOM Craft CONOPS For War In Space

WASHINGTON: For the first time, Space Command is working with the operator and builder of America’s spy satellites, the NRO, to develop a shared “playbook” of pre-agreed actions to defend military and spy satellites during a conflict, SPACECOM and NRO officials say. The ‘playbook’ is a central part of a new joint concept of operations (CONOP)…

AI, Cybersecurity, & The Data Trap: You Don’t Know Normal

AI, Cybersecurity, & The Data Trap: You Don’t Know Normal
AI, Cybersecurity, & The Data Trap: You Don’t Know Normal

“How do I even know what’s normal and what’s abnormal so I can detect anomalies? We simply don’t know,” says Dean Souleles, chief technology advisor for the Director of National Intelligence.

In 1st Interview, PDUSDI Bingen Talks Artificial Intelligence, Project Maven, Ethics

In 1st Interview, PDUSDI Bingen Talks Artificial Intelligence, Project Maven, Ethics
In 1st Interview, PDUSDI Bingen Talks Artificial Intelligence, Project Maven, Ethics

“We’ve got teams that are working side by side with the JAIC team and obviously the leadership continuity there is key for us. And we’re also working across DoD. I see lines with the AIM initiative (Augmenting Intelligence using Machines) within the IC.”

Huge Intel Leadership Shifts: New Directors For NRO, NGA

Huge Intel Leadership Shifts: New Directors For NRO, NGA
Huge Intel Leadership Shifts: New Directors For NRO, NGA

NGA HQ: The low grinding noise you could barely hear yesterday was the sound of the tectonic plates of American intelligence shifting as the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Agency got new directors. The nugget of news is that Vice Adm. Bob Sharp replaces Robert Cardillo as NGA director and President Trump…

HASC Dems Press To Resume Korea Wargames; Trump Tweets Vs. Intel Community

HASC Dems Press To Resume Korea Wargames; Trump Tweets Vs. Intel Community
HASC Dems Press To Resume Korea Wargames; Trump Tweets Vs. Intel Community

Democrats challenged President Trump over his freeze on US military exercises with South Korea, while Trump lashed out on social media against intelligence officials who questioned his achievements.

US Gives Russia 60 Days Before INF Withdrawal; NATO Comes Around

US Gives Russia 60 Days Before INF Withdrawal; NATO Comes Around
US Gives Russia 60 Days Before INF Withdrawal; NATO Comes Around

After five years of talks and a wall of Russian denials, NATO and Washington call Putin’s bluff and say they’re ready to do something about Russian violations of a 31 year-old arms control treaty. But Europe is worried.

DNI Will ‘Do Really Great Work’ To Clear Huge Clearance Backlog

DNI Will ‘Do Really Great Work’ To Clear Huge Clearance Backlog
DNI Will ‘Do Really Great Work’ To Clear Huge Clearance Backlog

It ain’t sexy, but the massive backlog of 730,000 clearance investigations is costing companies money, the Intelligence Community good people and causing headaches for everyone.
The redoubtable Sue Gordon, principal deputy Director of National Intelligence, told some 3,000 intelligence professionals today that “this year we’ll do really great work on reducing the backlog.”

ODNI Shifts Reponsibilities As 90% Of IC Programs Hit Green

ODNI Shifts Reponsibilities As 90% Of IC Programs Hit Green
ODNI Shifts Reponsibilities As 90% Of IC Programs Hit Green

INSA HQ: Drive milestone decision authority down as low as is possible. Speed decision-making. Let the Intelligence Community agencies create simple and clear requirements and manage their programs, as long as everything goes along swimmingly. That outlines the changes to acquisition that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence plans to make over the…

Exclusive — Rethinking Intel In The Age of Trump: DNI Coats & PDDNI Gordon

Exclusive — Rethinking Intel In The Age of Trump: DNI Coats & PDDNI Gordon
Exclusive — Rethinking Intel In The Age of Trump: DNI Coats & PDDNI Gordon

The great challenge for intelligence agencies in the age of Trump was dramatically highlighted this month when a senior South Korean delegation arrived at the White House carrying a secret bombshell message. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un wanted a face-to-face summit with President Donald Trump to discuss Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program. Waiting to debrief…

North Korea Won’t Give Nukes Up ‘At Any Price:’ Top Korea Intel Officer

North Korea Won’t Give Nukes Up ‘At Any Price:’ Top Korea Intel Officer
North Korea Won’t Give Nukes Up ‘At Any Price:’ Top Korea Intel Officer

OMAHA: The deep fissures over how to solve our knottiest national security problem, North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons, were on full display here this afternoon as the government’s top expert said Kim Jong-un “does not intend to negotiate those capabilities away at any price.” Markus Garlauskas, the North Korea officer for the Director of…

Hill Intel Committees Order DNI, NSA/CyberCom Review

Hill Intel Committees Order DNI, NSA/CyberCom Review
Hill Intel Committees Order DNI, NSA/CyberCom Review

Ever since the day of its creation, critics have slammed the Office of Director of National Intelligence as an expensive and unnecessary bureaucracy, a threat to the longtime primacy of the Director of Central Intelligence and a toothless tiger. Much of that changed during the joint tenures of DNI Mike McConnell and SecDef Bob Gates…

Clapper Vs. Trump: Intel Agencies ‘Even More Resolute’ That Russia Meddled In Elections

Clapper Vs. Trump: Intel Agencies ‘Even More Resolute’ That Russia Meddled In Elections
Clapper Vs. Trump: Intel Agencies ‘Even More Resolute’ That Russia Meddled In Elections

WASHINGTON: The day before intelligence analysts brief a skeptical Donald Trump on Russian interference with the 2016 elections, the Director of National Intelligence told supportive senators that he had only grown more confident the Kremlin was the culprit. DNI James Clapper not only repeated his assessment that Russia had tried to manipulate the election with…

Van Hipp Top SecArmy Pick; Hoekstra For DNI?

Van Hipp Top SecArmy Pick; Hoekstra For DNI?
Van Hipp Top SecArmy Pick; Hoekstra For DNI?

WASHINGTON: The next Director of National Intelligence may be Pete Hoestra, the Dutch-born former head of the House Intelligence Committee, and the next Army Secretary is likely to be Van Hipp, head of consulting firm American Defense International, according to a source who advises President-elect Donald Trump on national security issues. Van Hipp, a former Army officer, first…

911: Do We Need A Director of National Intelligence?

911: Do We Need A Director of National Intelligence?
911: Do We Need A Director of National Intelligence?

One of the major shifts in American intelligence after the terror attacks of 911 was the creation of the Director of National Intelligence and a whole new agency to serve him in his task of ensuring America’s 17 intelligence agencies (including the DNI) played well together, effectively shared information and didn’t waste too much in…