The security clearance process often poses a challenge for both government and industry when they want to move people around and bring new personnel onboard. That’s especially true for the highest levels of clearance, where…
June 29, 2022
Trusted Workforce 2.0 is the government’s wholesale reform of the security clearance process. The idea is to make it easier for employees to move in and around government and industry, while also improving security. For…
June 15, 2022
Brett Holmgren is the assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research. The Bureau of Intelligence and Research, or INR, is unique in that it delivers intelligence analysis to advance diplomacy. And that principle has…
May 18, 2022
Nancy Morgan spent the last three years as the intelligence community’s chief data officer. In that time, the amount of information both collected and produced by intelligence agencies has grown exponentially. The IC is now…
May 4, 2022
On today’s show, we take a look at how intelligence agencies are approaching open source intelligence or OSINT. There’s a rapidly expanding world of social media feeds, commercial satellite imagery, cell phone videos and other…
April 20, 2022
Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and synthetic biology are offering new possibilities for how intelligence agencies carry out their missions. But rapid advances in technology, especially in commercial industry, also present challenges to the IC’s…
April 7, 2022
It’s been four weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and despite expert predictions, there has yet to be a significant cyber campaign against the U.S. and its allies. But the White House is now warning it…
March 23, 2022
In this week’s episode, we speak with former National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo about a recent chapter he authored in the CIA’s quarterly journal. The chapter, titled “GEOINT and the post-secret world,” posits…
March 9, 2022
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is leading a new mandate for the intelligence community to turn to commercial sources of GEOINT first. NGA’s new commercial strategy is being led by Dave Gauthier, director of commercial and…
February 23, 2022
In the inaugural episode of Inside the IC, we look at how the National Reconnaissance office is trying to take advantage of a fast growing commercial satellite market. Pete Muend, the director of the National…
February 8, 2022
