CIA

Intel community seeks to centralize OSINT under new strategy

The intelligence community’s new OSINT strategy puts a premium on using open-source data, as opposed to highly secretive sources and and methods.

Inside the IC

In this Wednesday March 4, 2020 courtroom sketch Joshua Schulte, center, is seated at the defense table flanked by his attorneys during jury deliberations in New York. Joshua Schulte, a former CIA software engineer charged with leaking government secrets to WikiLeaks says it's cruel and unusual punishment that he's awaiting trial in solitary confinement, housed in a vermin-infested cell of a jail unit where inmates are treated like “caged animals.

Ex-CIA officer gets 40-year sentence for agency’s biggest leak

Federal Newscast

CIA doesn’t just collect data, it also collects art

People

Labor’s Bafundo assumes new role with TMF program management office

People

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CIA’s AI efforts focus on training, monitoring, augmenting human analysts

Artificial Intelligence

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Spy agency leaders aim to change workforce perceptions about well-being, mental health

Defense News

Intel agency IT leaders prioritize accessibility in technology

Technology

FILE- This Jan. 21, 2017, file photo shows the floor of the main lobby of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Va. The FBI “exercised remarkable caution and candor” in securing search warrants that led to espionage charges against a former CIA employee, prosecutors have told a federal judge presiding over the case. Prosecutors said a court hearing is not necessary to reject Joshua Adam Schulte’s claims that evidence should be tossed out because searches of his New York City residence and various electronic accounts were illegal. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

CIA aims to decrease median hiring time ‘by orders of magnitude’ by December

Intelligence Community

New OSINT foundation aims to ‘professionalize’ open source discipline across spy agencies

The new foundation plans to provide OSINT certifications and advocate for a dedicated program of record within the intelligence community.

Inside the IC

FILE - A young man stands in front of a shelve with hard liquor at a beverage market in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany, June 15, 2007. The German government's drugs czar has proposed raising the age when people can buy beer and win from 16 to 18, and cracking down on alcohol and tobacco advertising. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Vets suing Army for not recognizing substance abuse disorders in discharges

In today’s Federal Newscast, veterans are suing the Army for refusing to give soldiers with alcohol and drug addictions honorable discharges.

Federal Newscast

Classification has an unholy handmaiden, the pre-publication review board

Agency Oversight

Any federal employee who’s come near classified or secret information know what happens if they try to publish something or give a speech. The federal government has at least 17 pre-publication review boards with the authority to say no.

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