Artificial Intelligence
AI, Deepfakes and the Other Tech Threats That Vex Intel Leaders
Top U.S. intelligence officials had a lot to say about tech at the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing.
Cybersecurity
Patriot Act updates lurk for Congress
The upcoming expiration of a handful of key provisions in the Patriot Act at the end of the year could set up another battle in Congress over the size and scope of U.S. surveillance authorities.
Modernization
New intel strategy stresses data collection, cyber threats
A new U.S. strategy document calls for the U.S. intelligence community to boost cyber threat intelligence sharing and augment data collection and analysis capabilities.
Artificial Intelligence
National Intelligence Strategy Warns of Technological Threats to U.S.
Disruptive technologies will democratize capabilities previously available only to nation-states with plenty of resources.
Artificial Intelligence
Former Google Chief to Chair Government Artificial Intelligence Advisory Group
Eric Schmidt will join 14 other tech experts on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence
U.S. Spies Want to Know How to Identify Compromised AI
The intelligence community's research arm wants to be able to tell if someone is tampering with training data.
Digital Government
NGA Announces New Director
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will have a new director come February.
Digital Government
Your Favorite Stories of 2018
Nextgov readers have great taste and according to our most-read stories of 2018, that includes a hankering for the administration's major tech policies and a touch of scandal.
Cybersecurity
Senate passes bill to establish governmentwide supply chain council
New legislation would establish an interagency council with broad authority to develop rules of the road for federal supply chain security.
Artificial Intelligence
IARPA Is Trying Keep Adversaries From Corrupting AI Tools
Could cyber adversaries be training the government’s artificial intelligence tools to fail?
Modernization
Intel Agencies Lack 'Adequate Tech' for FOIA Requests
A recently published inspector general report shows a more coordinated technology approach could help intelligence agencies fulfill Freedom of Information Act inquiries in a timely manner.
Cybersecurity
With elections over, CISA focus shifts to risk management center
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen signaled that her newly minted cybersecurity agency will shift its focus to a number of longer term initiatives around risk and supply chain.
Emerging Tech
Intel Community is Developing a More Spy-Proof Room
The intelligence community’s research arm is upgrading SCIF security to protect against threats from personal devices and sensors.
Digital Government
By Spring, Government Aims to Halve 600,000 Security Clearance Backlog
The government is working to reduce its security clearance backlog.
Cybersecurity
ODNI: clearance backlog will continue to shrink
A senior intelligence official said the current backlog of about 600,000 security clearance investigations could be cut in half in spring of 2019.
Cybersecurity
NSA official: new U.S. cyberwar policy isn't the 'Wild West'
Rob Joyce, former White House cyber coordinator, said the Trump administration's new cyber warfare policy is more "thoughtful" than some might think.
Modernization
House appropriators seek IG probe of JEDI
Two senior Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee want the Pentagon's internal watchdog to open an investigation into the agency's ongoing $10 billion cloud procurement.
Modernization
NSA Finalizes $6.7 Billion in Classified Tech Contracts
After two years, the NSA finished rebidding its “Groundbreaker” program and is beginning work on a secretive new set of communications contracts.
Cybersecurity
Coats critiques tech firms for inconsistent human rights stances
The nation's top intelligence official said contractors who have reservations about helping the U.S. government should extend those same concerns to foreign ventures.
Emerging Tech