US intelligence seeks to outfit smart clothes with clandestine cameras, sensors & microphones
The US Intelligence Community is requesting information on how to develop comfortable smart clothes that can "sense, process, and communicate...
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IARPA seeks AI teams to both attribute & anonymize authorship by identifying, removing writers’ ‘linguistic fingerprints’ from text
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is holding a proposers' day for an upcoming research program aimed at both...
‘IoT devices are a growing source of data that can be collected to learn intent’: IARPA director
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is looking to IoT devices as a growing source of data collection for...
Pentagon to work closely with intelligence community under new US National Space Policy
The White House launches the US National Space Policy, recognizing the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community (IC)...
How businesses can protect their SaaS: cloud security tips from a former NSA agent
As businesses grow in their cloud journeys, so too do their costly SaaS subscriptions, and when employees leave, many still...
Tech & talent pulled from intel community are battle-tested to protect private sector: former SEAL Team 6 member, entrepreneur
Because of their battle-tested experience in combating cybersecurity threats in real-time, former members of the intelligence community (IC) are prime...
Intel agency awards contract to company that harvests social media text, data
IARPA awards a research contract for extracting data from text to Raytheon BBN, which harvests the text of social media...
Spy agencies want to accurately ID people from drones and rooftops
Combining facial and body recognition from above, spy agencies are researching how to identify people at long range from drones...
US intelligence wants to monitor planetwide ‘construction’ sites from space
The US intelligence community is looking for proposals for an IARPA program that monitors planetwide "anthropogenic activities" such as construction...
In-Q-Tel partners with Outlier.ai to identify unexpected patterns in govt data sets
US intelligence community funding arm In-Q-Tel (IQT) announces a strategic partnership with Outlier to identify unexpected patterns in government agency...
In-Q-Tel taps cloud security expert Sysdig to modernize govt agencies
Barely a month after announcing a new approach to cloud visibility and security, Sysdig is tapped by the Intelligence Community...
Govt Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge offers $250K to predict the future
How many missile test events will North Korea conduct in August 2019? Will there be a locally-transmitted case of the Zika...
When private companies gain access to ‘classified space’
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Powerful private players like Microsoft and Amazon have been working on building sensitive intelligence related tools for the government’s intelligence...
How the US intelligence community will tackle technological threats: NIS report
US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Daniel R. Coats releases the 2019 National Intelligence Strategy (NIS), highlighting technological threats and...
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IARPA sets challenge to fact-check fact-checking methods
Fact-checking is a good thing, but who fact-checks the fact-checkers' methodologies? How do we know if the fact-checking methods actually...
In-Q-Tel partners with AI-human translation company Lilt
The CIA's investment arm In-Q-Tel partners with AI-human translation company Lilt to offer US government agencies a high-quality solution for enterprise...
Intelligence community can’t keep up with FOIA requests: IG report
The US Intelligence Community (IC), including the CIA, FBI, NSA, and others cannot keep up with the amount of Freedom...
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CIA-backed, NSA-approved Pokemon GO users give away all privacy rights
Pokemon GO users swept up in the phenomenon are willingly giving away their rights to privacy by agreeing to download...
