Presidential nominee James R. Clapper was unanimously confirmed by the Senate yesterday to become the next Director of National Intelligence. Clapper is a retired Air Force lieutenant general who most recently served as director of military intelligence and as undersecretary of defense for intelligence. He will take over for Dennis C. Blair and will oversee [...]
Following the first installment in the Washington Post’s investigative series, “Top Secret America”, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a statement yesterday clarifying the relationship between the intelligence community and contractors. ODNI dispelled several common “myths” surrounding IC’s relationship with contractors in the document. Of the misconceptions, contract budgets, federal oversight of [...]
What’s ahead on the technology front for government and industry? The answer depends on who you’re talking to. So when we set out to showcase our annual roundup of CTO perspectives, we went knocking on both sides of the aisle. From the ranks of some of the area’s government contracting firms, to the halls of [...]
Among emerging technologies, analytics is an area that Dawn Meyerriecks, ODNI’s Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Acquisition and Technology, is “pretty passionate” about. “I won’t say we resolved all of our information-sharing problems … we’ll never whack the last mole on that one,” she says. “However, we’ve moved up the stack, so now we [...]
