DOD, IC leaders push for diversity in IT workforce
Leaders from the Department of Defense and intelligence community Thursday emphasized the need for a diverse workforce in support of national security.
Feds release new processes of notifying public about foreign election interference
A group of federal agencies on Friday released a set of new processes that will govern how lawmakers, government agencies, the private sector and the public would be notified of foreign interference in U.S. elections.
IARPA Launches “BETTER” Program to Improve Information Extraction for Analysts
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) within ODNI today announced the launch of the Better Extraction from Text Towards Enhanced Retrieval (BETTER) program. BETTER is a multi-year research effort that aims to develop a capability to provide personalized information extraction from text to an individual analyst across multiple languages and topics.
U.S. official visits Minneapolis to cite cyber threats
The nation’s top counterintelligence officer said at a Minneapolis Cyber Security conference in Minneapolis last week that he’s most concerned about external cyber threats against critical U.S. infrastructure.
Dean Souleles: Intelligence Community Should Invest in Tech, Data to Advance AI Adoption
Dean Souleles, chief technology adviser at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said the intelligence community is now laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence adoption, Federal News Network reported Friday.