Nearly 100 countries have acquired cellphone spyware ‘and they’re using it’: Official
Michael Casey, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, warned about the vulnerability of mobile devices.
We fed every 2024 Pentagon briefing into ChatGPT. Here’s what it thought.
The US national security establishment is cautiously embracing generative AI, so Breaking Defense decided to do an experiment.
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
Ukraine lessons in many domains: What US military intel officials are learning
"But you know who the best innovators are? The people who have to innovate or they're going to die the next day," a US Army official said.
With new threats, ‘CYBERCOM 2.0’ must push past ‘status quo’: Nakasone
"We’ve had tremendous experience. But the scope, scale, sophistication of the threat has changed," US Cyber Command chief Gen. Paul Nakasone said.
NRO opens call for commercial hyperspectral satellite imagery
Hyperspectral imagery could allow analysts at NRO's sister agency, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), to do things like identify drug production facilities or find evidence of chemical weapons production.
‘On the table’: Hicks says DoD, IC considering indemnifying commercial space providers
"[T]he IC Commercial Space Council is discussing commercial protection right now. We had a meeting on Tuesday, and it came up," said NGA's David Gauthier, who chairs the council.
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Keeping sensitive information safe in a new AI era
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
Intel Community Grapples With Key Open Source Intel
“In our defeat-ISIS activities, we’ve had a struggle and presently continue to struggle with the challenge of open source and publicly available information, and how we leverage that to make it truly useful for the warfighter,” Jospeh Votel, former head of both Special Operations Command and Central Command.
Don’t Hack Back: Call The FBI & They’ll Call NSA
“The average time it takes to discover a data breach is about six months,” said Hickey, a deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department specializing in cybersecurity and China. By the time you realize you’ve been hacked, it’s too late to “hack back" and shut down your attacker.
Net Assessment Comes To DNI; Roper Says F-35’s ALIS Makes Progress
NATIONAL HARBOR: A key capability the Defense Department has relied on since the late Andy Marshall invented it — Net Assessment — is coming to the Intelligence Community. But wait, you say. Doesn’t the National Intelligence Council do long range strategic analysis? Well, not nearly as far out as Net Assessment does, which is 20 […]
The Next Battlefield: Robots & AI In Cislunar Space
Air Force Space Command deputy Maj. Gen. John Shaw says the US probably won't be using piloted Tie Fighters in future space wars. But...
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Next-generation C2 won’t be next-gen without the network transport
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
Major NRO Spy Program Behind Schedule: DNRO Sapp
WASHINGTON: America’s spy satellite maker and operator, the National Reconnaissance Office, has one major satellite program at risk of not meeting its cost and schedule requirements, its director Betty Sapp says. In a rare moment of transparency, Sapp answered my question about the status of the agency’s programs at the Intelligence and National Security Summit […]
Trump, Clinton Do Not Get PDB; DNI Stresses Intel Community Not Political
WASHINGTON: In the face of a lot of what he called “catastrophizing” about the “very volatile time for the country” known as the presidential transition, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper offers a simple message: “It’ll be OK.” Of course, that reassurance came after Clapper outlined the dark precautions that are taken on Inauguration Day, including the designation of […]
Build A ‘Department Of Cyber:’ Former DNI McConnell
PENTAGON CITY: Sen. Susan Collins has a bill about how to improve cyber sharing that should go to markup next week and she spoke about the challenges cyber poses to the government this morning at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance annual conference here. Three former directors of National Intelligence — John Negroponte, Mike McConnell and […]
The Intelligence Sequestration Blues: Rogers, Clapper & Flynn
WASHINGTON: They could have a decent career singing the sequestration lament in 4/4 time. Three of the top men in American intelligence brought it home yesterday, wailing the sequestration blues. OK, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s speech sometimes lacked rhythmn. But Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, hit […]