The intelligence community’s approach to employee engagement
Agencies in the Intelligence community are scoring high on the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. One of the top ranked agencies this year was the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The ODNI workers reported good feedback on mission and enjoy their positions much more than years prior. Sherry Van Sloun, Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Human Capital, says that there are a few key factors that determined their placement in the rankings.
Top U.S. election security official says adversaries have "sharpened" interference tools ahead of 2020
A top U.S. election security official warned on Tuesday that the country faces threats from adversaries beyond Russia, and can count on "more sophisticated" attacks from other state and non-state actors ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
"This is not a Russia-only problem," said Shelby Pierson, who serves as the intelligence community's election threats executive within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. "Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, [and] non-state hacktivists all have opportunity, means, and potentially motive to come after the United States in the 2020 election to accomplish their goals."
Partnerships are key to IC modernization success, CIO Sherman says
Intelligence community CIO John Sherman views his partnerships with both internal and external stakeholders as key to IT modernization success.
Congress, America’s international allies, other federal agencies like the Department of Defense and intelligence community staff all count among these important stakeholders, he said Tuesday at the Cloudera Data Cloud Summit.
The leader in federal work environment improvement
The award from the Partnership for Public Service was given based on the IC’s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey score, which evaluated how agency employees feel about their work environment. A large agency was characterized as one with more than 15,000 employees.
The IC, which includes 17 different organizations, improved its spot from fifth overall last year to third, helped by a 3.6 point bump in its FEVS score and decreases in the scores of the Departments of Commerce and Transportation.
Civil Liberties, Privacy and Transparency Chief Speaks to Intelligence Oversight at Public Forum
Ben Huebner, Chief of ODNI’s Civil Liberties, Privacy, and Transparency Office, spoke about the Intelligence Community’s (IC) efforts to protect civil liberties and privacy when using Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorities at the Cato Institute Surveillance Conference Dec. 6, in Washington, D.C.