Ideas
Look to Norway? Yes.
Norwegian resistance once held off the Nazis. Today, Norway is resisting Russia’s meddling better than Trump, say some senators. Here's how.
Policy
Why the President’s FISA Fix Is Bad News For Privacy, Good News for Russian Agents
Early-morning tweets revealed Trump’s complicated relationship with various spying rules.
Threats
The Security Clearance Backlog Has Tripled in the Last 3 Years, And It's Only Getting Worse
The Government Accountability Office found there's no plan to reverse it.
Science & Tech
NGA Launches Bold Recruitment Plan to Hire Silicon Valley's Best
The intelligence agency is hacking hiring rules to fill three new digital teams in its quest for data dominance.
Science & Tech
Amazon’s New ‘Secret Region’ Promises Easier Sharing of Classified Data
CIA info chief says the intelligence community has been eager for a way to put secret-level data in a secure cloud.
Ideas
Taking Putin's Word For It
Trump wants to believe both the Russian president’s denial of election meddling, and the conclusions of his own intelligence agencies. But he can’t have it both ways.
Science & Tech
China and the CIA Are Competing to Fund Silicon Valley’s AI Startups
The U.S. intelligence community is upping its early-stage investments in machine-learning companies — but Beijing is pouring in far more.
Science & Tech
Russian, Chinese Companies Win Intel Community's Facial Recognition Contest
Moscow-based NTechlab won two categories of IARPA’s facial recognition challenge.
Ideas
A Former CIA Director Describes the Dangers of 'Trump Unleashed'
John Brennan praises the advisers who restrain Donald Trump’s impulses, calls out the president’s “enablers” inside the White House, and considers the prospect of World War III.
Ideas
The Contradiction at the Core of Trump's North Korea Strategy
The president’s national-security advisers say they’re running out of time to do something extremely time-consuming.
Science & Tech
The FBI’s Cyber Strategy: Shame The Hackers
The agency is trying to take a more preventive, and not a reactive, security strategy.
Science & Tech
Social Media is ‘First Tool’ of 21st-Century Warfare, US Lawmaker Says
And buying Facebook ads is much cheaper than an F-35 fighter jet, said Sen. Mark Warner.
Business
NSA Quietly Awards a Classified $2.4B Tech Contract, With More to Come
CSRA won the first of three NSA Groundbreaker contracts to upgrade parts of the intelligence community’s IT infrastructure.
Science & Tech
What the CIA’s Tech Director Wants from AI
Dawn Meyerriecks says staying ahead of Russia and China isn’t as hard as getting U.S. leaders to listen to their own artificial intelligence analysis.
Science & Tech
Future Spy Satellites Just Got Exponentially Smaller
By changing the way microchips measure light, researchers are shrinking the size of space-based telescopes.
Science & Tech
State Department Has No Idea What It Costs to Give Security Clearances
Despite orders from Congress last year, Foggy Bottom can't say what clearances cost or how long they take.
Science & Tech
How Will The Pentagon Create Its AIs? The Algorithmic-Warfare Team Is Charting a Path
Over the next 36 months, an algorithmic-warfare team will draw up a model for splitting the work between government and industry.
Ideas
The Spies of the 'Five Eyes' Need to Speed Up Intel-Sharing
Nations must speed the dissemination of information to enable real-time responses and counter disabling cyber threats.
Ideas
Cherry Picking Intelligence For War in the Middle East? Here We Go Again
Will Trump follow the Bush playbook and start a war with Iran?
Ideas