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National Defense September 2007 Breanne Wagner |
Reluctance to Share Information Hampers Counterterrorism Efforts As part of an ambitious plan to improve the flow of intelligence among law enforcement agencies, the U.S. government has set up several command centers where federal, state and local officials can share information. |
Parameters Spring 2005 Saxby Chambliss |
We Have Not Correctly Framed the Debate on Intelligence Reform Over the last decade, our intelligence community has failed us. It wasn't able to penetrate the al Qaeda terrorist organization, and we paid a high price for that failure. |
National Defense January 2009 Magnuson & Rusling |
A Domestic Counterterrorism Agency? It's a Numbers Game The question of whether to create a standalone domestic intelligence agency for counter-terrorism comes down to some cold, hard math, said The Rand Corp. in a recent study. |
BusinessWeek June 28, 2004 Paul Magnusson |
The Smart Way To Fix Intelligence From Pearl Harbor to the terrorist attacks of September 11, the lesson keeps being repeated: A dollar spent on identifying the threat and preventing the attack can be worth far more than the millions spent safeguarding targets or the billions spent cleaning up the aftermath. |
National Defense October 2004 Joe Pappalardo |
Pentagon Balking at Intel Reform Recommendations Pentagon officials are publicly questioning some of the recommendations made by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. |
Parameters Summer 2006 Arthur C. Winn |
The Future of US Intelligence The four books reviewed here address the future of US intelligence. However, each has a different focus: Countdown to Terror: The Top-Secret Information that Could Prevent the Next Terrorist Attack on America...and How the CIA has Ignored it by Curt Weldon... etc. |
National Defense June 2008 Breanne Wagner |
Pentagon, Intelligence Community May Adopt Unified Space Strategy The United States spends billions of dollars to maintain its superiority in space. But lack of coordination between the Defense Department and the intelligence community is impeding efforts to efficiently manage these efforts. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 |
2005: The Year to Get a Handle on Terrorism Despite the compromise intelligence bill hammered out by Congress Dec. 7 and 8, the issue of coordinating this country's intelligence operations to tackle the issue of terrorism is far from resolved. |
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Intelligence Nominee to Revamp Beleaguered Office's Hiring Practices Caryn Wagner, nominee to be undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at the Department of Homeland Security, said she will try to improve the low morale, high turnover and slow hiring process at the organization. |
CRM January 2004 Barton Goldenberg |
Is Government CRM the Next Big Boom? Citizens are customers, too. And government agencies are looking for better ways to serve them. |
National Defense November 2010 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Warns Local Law Enforcement Of New Homegrown Terrorist Threat The general consensus in the intelligence community is that the homegrown terrorist threat during the last year has supplanted plots that originate overseas. |
National Defense May 2010 Dunderdale & Tyliszczak |
Is It Possible to Both Share and Protect Sensitive Data? The Defense Department must be able to communicate critical intelligence across agencies and geographic boundaries quickly and securely. |
National Defense February 2005 Peter M. Steffes |
New Rules for Clearances Included in Intel Reform The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004---which President Bush now is preparing to implement---mandates a comprehensive shake-up of the nation's intelligence community. |
InternetNews March 20, 2008 |
Bush Picks Security Aide With Wiretap Background U.S. President George W. Bush named a Justice Department official with experience in terrorism wiretap programs as his White House homeland security adviser on Wednesday. |
InternetNews May 10, 2005 Tim Gray |
Teen Held For Allegedly Swiping Code Reports say stolen Cisco source code was used to infiltrate military computers. |
InternetNews April 17, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Microsoft Talks Data Tools for Law Enforcement Taking a page from its business intelligence and enterprise collaboration tools, Microsoft releases a suite of data-sharing and analysis software for law enforcement agencies |
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Stan Crock |
Decades Of Terror Blunders Timothy Naftali's, Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism, offers fascinating detail on why needed reforms were neglected over the decades. |
National Defense June 2015 Ted Girard |
How Defense Agencies Can Better Cope With Big Data The Defense Information Systems Agency's five-year strategic plan says big data capabilities are becoming essential to modern warfare. |
National Defense November 2014 Stew Magnuson |
13 Years Later, Still a Ways to Go on Sharing Terrorist Threats With Public The government needs to have a clear communication strategy to combat misinformation and speculation. |
National Defense June 2004 Pappalardo & Erwin |
Security Beat Law enforcement agencies, using grant money from the federal government, increasingly are investing in robots to prepare for domestic threats. |
National Defense November 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Intelligence: The Silver Bullet That Will Beat the Insurgency Until the military can come to grips with their intelligence problem in Iraq, it will continue to pay the price in the form of casualties, which have now reached nearly 2,000 dead and more than 14,000 wounded. |
Insurance & Technology November 12, 2007 Steve Terry |
Beneficial Financial Group CIO Steve Terry Discusses Business Intelligence Tools For the life and annuity industry, being effective with the available business intelligence tools can be a real challenge. |
National Defense May 2011 Stew Magnuson |
FBI Anticipates Terrorist Attacks on Soft Targets in the United States Brenda Heck, deputy assistant director of the agency's counterterrorism division, said an attack similar to the 2008 assault on hotels and other buildings in Mumbai, India, is possible here. |
National Defense April 2005 Roxana Tiron |
Irregular Warfare Counter-insurgency in Iraq provides a template for fighting terrorism. |
CIO May 15, 2003 Todd Datz |
State to Share Data with FBI Information sharing is key to beefing up homeland security. As part of that initiative, the State Department will soon share its database of 50 million visa applications with the FBI. |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Hillary Clinton: Silicon Valley Should Help Fight ISIS Clinton hinted that Silicon Valley should lower encryption standards to make it easier for American intelligence agencies to monitor communications. |
Fast Company February 2005 Jena McGregor |
"The Imagination Was There" A former vice chair at Fannie Mae and the deputy attorney general under Janet Reno, Gorelick speaks about imagination, leadership, and the persistence of outdated mind-sets. |
Fast Company March 15, 2007 J.J. Brazil |
Mission: Impossible? The FBI is battling to transform itself in an age of technology and terrorism. It may be the toughest, most important change effort of our time. |
CIO August 4, 2008 Thomas Wailgum |
Inside the CIA's Extreme Technology Makeover, Part 1 Al Tarasiuk, the CIA's CIO, is on a mission to modernize the agency's IT practices and connections to the intelligence community. It's just like any other IT-business alignment project, except that he has to get disparate departments to share data while supporting the White House's war on terror. |
National Defense June 2004 Harold Kennedy |
Advisory Board Says Military Must Define Role in Homeland Defense The Pentagon needs to improve and integrate its maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets with those of the Departments of Homeland Security and Transportation, CIA and FBI, according to a recent Defense Science Board study. |
National Defense March 2010 Stew Magnuson |
No Need to Rethink 'No-Fly' List Criteria, Say Intelligence Chiefs The former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Department's top intelligence chief both called for common sense answers to questions of who is and isn't added to terrorist watch lists. |
National Defense November 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Al-Qaida Seen Shifting Tactics to Smaller Attacks The Boston bombing quickly brought domestic jihadist terrorism back into the public eye. Counterterrorism analysts are now concerned that the United States may soon face an increase in deadly, smaller scale attacks. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 |
The 9/11 Report: Details of the central event of our time It's not the sophisticated sensors, signal processing, satellite communications, and automation technology that wins the day in the end; it's the people who use the technology that make the difference. |
AskMen.com Michael Hirsch |
How To: Become A Secret Agent What guy hasn't actually wondered what it would be like to be a spy? Cruising around foreign countries, experiencing great adventures, hooking up with hot exotic babes, and, at the same time, helping out your country. |
AskMen.com Craig Mazin |
Top 10: Spy Agencies Many countries place great importance on the function of their intelligence/spy agencies. Intelligence failures can lead to terrible consequences, while successes can help countries avert unnecessary tragedies. Read on about the top 10 presently active spy agencies operating in the world today. |
National Defense March 2009 Charles Faddis |
CIA Must Return To Its Roots To Become Effective Once Again Almost seven decades after the birth of this civilian intelligence agency, we need to go back to the beginning -- to a lean, flexible, imaginative organization trained and equipped to confront our nation's enemies. |
PC World September 12, 2001 Joris Evers |
Spy Technology: Too Little, Too Late? Echelon, other high-tech surveillance tools may not have been effective when needed... |
National Defense March 2009 Magnuson & Rusling |
Noted Police Chief Slams Federal-Local Partnerships The man who led the local police response to the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon hopes the new administration does a better job of coordinating counterterrorism efforts with local law enforcement. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2008 Sally Adee |
Q&A With: IARPA Director Lisa Porter The first director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity discusses the differences between intelligence work and defense |
PC World September 12, 2001 Dan Verton |
Next: Cyberterrorism? Security experts urge companies to guard against digital violence... |
Mother Jones Jan/Feb 2002 Ken Silverstein & David Isenberg |
Political Intelligence What happens when U.S. spies get the goods -- and the government won't listen? |
Parameters Summer 2005 |
Commentary & Reply Intelligence Reform: More Needs to Be Done... Clausewitz and "How Has War Changed?"... etc. |
Salon.com February 1, 2002 Jeff Stein |
Bin Laden's Olympic dreams Al-Qaida conducted "meticulous" surveillance of Salt Lake City, intelligence official says... |
National Defense November 2014 Sandra I. Erwin |
As Defense, Intelligence Agencies Drown in Data, Technology Comes to the Rescue The task of filtering and sorting through massive loads of data is only going to get bigger as the military and intelligence agencies collect more information than they can handle. |
Wired October 2009 Stephen Lee |
Secret Ops, Domestic Spying OK -- As Long As Someone's Watching the Watchmen If the U.S. wants a successful intelligence agency, a certain amount of opacity is not only acceptable, it's necessary. |
InternetNews April 10, 2009 Alex Goldman |
FBI Throws Data-Sharing Tech at Serial Killings The Internet allows law enforcement agencies to collaborate in tracking highly mobile criminals who have escaped detection for years - sometimes for decades. |
Information Today September 13, 2012 |
FirstRain Announces New Customer Intelligence Solution FirstRain Performinator is a new subscription-based solution for easily adding strategically tuned customer intelligence to the daily lives of major accounts sales and marketing pros. |
HBS Working Knowledge January 10, 2007 Garry Emmons |
Working Independently, Working Together: The Challenge of Managing National Security The issues around managing national security provide an extreme example of the challenges faced by organizations that break into specialized parts yet must get the parts to work together. |
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Military 'Swimming In Sensors and Drowning in Data' Synthesizing all the collections of intelligence and disseminating them quickly is a challenge facing the military. |
National Defense February 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Funding, Numbers of State Fusion Centers Uncertain So far, there is no congressional mandate for state or local agencies to organize intelligence fusion centers such as the one found in Maryland. There are also no guarantees that the federal grants helping fund such centers will last. |