The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) wants to mature its multi-cloud environment for advanced artificial intelligence initiatives, but it needs industry partnerships to do so, a top Federal official said on Sept. 5 at the Billington CyberSecurity Summit in Washington. […]
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is making extensive use of artificial intelligence technologies to perform data and information triage, and to fulfill the open source information collection responsibilities that it handles for agencies across the Federal intelligence community, a top CIA official said on June 26 at the AWS Summit in Washington. […]
With the rapid growth of AI technologies, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Treasury are facing challenges in finding talent with AI expertise, according to agency officials. […]
President Biden has nominated Tonya P. Wilkerson to serve as the under secretary of defense for intelligence and security, the White House announced on May 2. […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) unveiled its 2024-2026 Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Strategy for the Intelligence Community (IC) last week, laying the path to modernize its approach to collecting, creating, and delivering OSINT. […]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has tapped Juliane Gallina to serve as the agency’s new deputy director for digital innovation. […]
The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) talent center is working to expand its workforce diversity by establishing hiring procedures that will help individuals in the neurodivergent community to better present themselves during the hiring process, according to a senior CIA official. […]
After serving in the Federal government for over three decades, Jennifer Ewbank has stepped down from her position as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for Digital Innovation, according to a recent LinkedIn post. […]
While generative AI is rapidly evolving as a useful analytic tool, the emerging technology will not be replacing intelligence analysts anytime soon, according to a former CIA official. […]
The chief technology officer (CTO) for a top U.S. intelligence agency said today that working closely with industry is the key to safeguarding the country’s national security and resiliency – especially when it comes to new, emerging threats like artificial intelligence technology. […]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is hyper-focused on cybersecurity and is conducting simulated cyberattacks to better understand the “bad actors” who are trying to do “the unthinkable,” the agency’s chief information security officer (CISO) said on May 16. […]
With the migration to zero trust security architectures is in full swing in the Federal government, top agency technology executives shared their experience with effective strategies and technologies they have implemented thus far during an April 25 webinar organized by Federal News Network. […]
Fundamentally, the job of an intelligence analyst hasn’t changed; but what has changed is the increased collaboration between analysts and data stewards and operators, according to a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official who talked this week about the ongoing evolution of that collaboration. […]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) announced on Jan. 5 its launch of a new hiring portal to help streamline how the agency attracts new talent. […]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has appointed Randy Nixon director for the agency’s open-source enterprise, according to a Dec. 21 LinkedIn post. […]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plans to diversify its applicant pools and reduce the long onboarding hiring process as the agency tries to revamp its hiring practices, an agency official said. […]
The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Deputy Director for Digital Innovation (DDI) flagged competition with China, the need to create better artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, and pressures to ramp up digital capabilities as three of the agency’s biggest tech priorities at September 13 event organized by GovExec. […]
William J. Burns, Director, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detailed some of the most important actions that they are undertaking to deter foreign adversaries in the realm of cybersecurity at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit on September 8. […]
The Central Intelligence Agency has named Joseph “Rich” Baich as the agency’s new chief information security officer (CISO). […]
The CIA has named Nand Mulchandani to serve as the agency’s first-ever chief technology officer (CTO), CIA Director William Burns announced on April 29. […]
The Central Intelligence Agency named La’Naia Jones as its next chief information officer (CIO), the agency’s deputy press secretary confirmed to MeriTalk. Jones will also be the next director of the agency’s Information and Technology Enterprise. […]
In addition to facing cyber threats from nation-states, both government and private organizations have been the victims of an increased volume of ransomware attacks from criminal organizations over the last two years. A Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official emphasized this week that organizations need to be on the lookout for any suspicious activity on their systems in order to guard against the uptick in ransomware attacks. […]
As part of a broader effort to enhance national security efforts at the agency, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) announced the creation of a new chief technology officer (CTO) position, and a new Transnational and Technology Mission Center. […]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) confirmed late Friday that it awarded the Intelligence Community (IC) Commercial Cloud Enterprise (C2E) Cloud Service Provider (CSP) contract to multiple vendors. […]
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) launched its own innovation lab this week, CIA Labs, to support in-house research and development (R&D) driving innovative science and technology to address intelligence challenges. […]
A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official, Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, was arrested last week for conspiring to communicate classified information to Chinese officials. […]
In a letter to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., raised questions on cybersecurity issues across the intelligence community (IC), and suggested that the IC may need to fall under the purview of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) authority of requiring all Federal agencies to adopt specific cybersecurity technologies and policies. […]
The United States’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have jointly issued a cybersecurity warning for healthcare organizations in both countries. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) late last week issued a practical checklist to help executives “think through” infrastructure protection, supply chain, and cybersecurity issues in light of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and potential effects to workforce and operations. […]
The desire to make the employees of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) more efficient in their work led to the creation of a Robotics Process Automation Center of Excellence, explained Pam Dempsey, the center’s lead. […]