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Intelligence Blog
Security vs. Privacy: A Looming Showdown in Congress
September 7, 2017
Intelligence officials call for foreign data collection reauthorization.
States Affected by Election Hacking Don't Know What the Feds Know
September 7, 2017
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Federal government officials cannot share information on Russian hacking because state officials lack the requisite clearances.
Military Intelligence Officers Call for Expanded Space Assets
September 6, 2017
While space has always been an important domain for military intelligence, the intelligence community is renewing its emphasis on the stars.
Seeing Is Believing For Artificial Intelligence
August 21, 2017
Geospatial imagery as well as facial recognition and other biometrics are driving the intelligence community’s research into artificial intelligence.
IARPA Seeks to Create Functional World Map
July 17, 2017
IARPA has announced the functional Map of the World (fMoW) challenge, which officially kicks off in August.
Cyborg Dragonfly Takes Flight
June 1, 2016
The DragonflEye, a cyborg insect intended for a variety of missions, including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, has liftoff.
U.S. Defense Department Revises Intelligence Budget Request
May 9, 2017
The Department of Defense released today the revised Military Intelligence Program top line budget request for fiscal 2017 that was disclosed to the public on February 9, 2016. The $16.8 billion is now updated to include additional funding above the initial president's budget request. The total, which includes both the base budget and overseas contingency operations funding, is $18.5 billion.
IARPA Announces Publication of Forecasting Data
April 28, 2017
Forecasting data collected during IARPA’s Aggregative Contingent Estimation (ACE) program by team Good Judgment is now available for use by the public and the research community.
A Founding Father of the CIA Served His Nation for More Than Six Decades
4/7/17
SIGNAL Magazine honors the service of longtime intelligence officer and diplomat Hugh Montgomery, who died April 6 at age 93.
Help Wanted: Machines Capable of Translating Foreign Language Data Into English
January 24, 2017
U.S. intelligence community researchers need technology capable of retrieving information from a multilingual repository and converting the data into English.
ODNI Says Classic Russian Influence Campaign Targeted U.S. Presidential Election
January 6, 2017
Russian agents, acting on direct orders from President Vladimir Putin, ran an organized media campaign to discredit Secretary Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to a declassified U.S. intelligence community report. However, the effort stopped short of directly affecting vote tallies.
Taking Advantage of Machine Learning to Securely Share Data
December 9, 2016
Right at this moment, hundreds of U.S. government analysts are trying to solve the exact same problem. Without easy, trusted data sharing, these analysts, who the nation relies on to solve the most challenging of worries, cannot benefit from shared knowledge—a hurdle that adds to inefficiencies fostered by redundancies, reinforcing the public’s perception of ineffective federal bureaucracy.
IARPA Announces Winners of its 3-D Mapping Challenge
December 1, 2016
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA, has selected its winners from its crowd-sourced Multi-View Stereo 3-D Mapping Challenge—a contest to see who could best convert satellite photos into 3-D models to create more accurate maps.
Face of Terrorism Has a New, Frightening Look, INSS Panel Expresses
September 7, 2016
European governments are contending with the challenges of penetrable borders, an influx of refugees and the radicalization of some of its youth, complicating intelligence efforts to combat terror, said Michael Leiter, chief operations officer at Leidos, at the third annual Intelligence & National Security Summit in Washington, D.C.
Marking a Decade of Safeguarding the World
August 23, 2016
The world of intelligence sharing has gone from on a need-to-know basis between federal agencies to one in which those key players must, by necessity, combine disparate pieces of intel to ascertain a complete picture of potential threats. Though actions by the government following the terrorist attacks 15 years ago make intel sharing easier, a class of technologies that greatly enhanced the government’s ability to accomplish this already existed: cross domain solutions.
U.S. Navy Tests Puma Unmanned System Aboard Missile Destroyer
August 11, 2016
The United States Navy has tested and deployed the RQ-20B Puma small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) aboard a Flight I Guided Missile Destroyer (DDG Class), according to an AeroVironment Inc. announcement. Some of these exercises included the use of the company’s fully autonomous system to recover the aircraft aboard a ship.
DOD Can Harness Industry ISR Technology to Modernize Frameworks
August 5, 2016
To meet the needs of the nation’s combatant commands and National Command Authority, government and industry must evolve the current intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms, sensors and ground systems into a truly global ISR enterprise. An incremental approach must be combined with overarching actions to migrate to common ISR information technology infrastructures, orchestrated toward the larger goal of an integrated ISR enterprise.
U.S. Air Force, Industry Demonstrate Improved Satellite Services for ISR
July 27, 2016
The U.S. Air Force and industry partners are developing a unique phased array for high-throughput ISR services for X-band satellite services. During a recent display at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, Ball Aerospace and XTAR demonstrated that Ball’s Airlink X-1 antenna configured for the C-130 hatch was able to transmit 4.5 megabits of data per second over the XTAR-LANT satellite, a marked throughput increase over existing terminals.
IARPA Launches its Multi-View Stereo 3D Mapping Challenge
July 6, 2016
IARPA has launched its Multi-View Stereo 3D Mapping Challenge, inviting the broader research community of industry and academia, with or without experience in multiview satellite imagery, to participate in a competition to produce a solution to accurately produce 3-D mapping from satellite photos.
