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IC IG News

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For the 11th consecutive year, Intelligence Community (IC) employee job satisfaction ranks the IC as one of the “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government.”

 

The IC ranked third overall, up from fifth last year, among large agencies that employ more than 15,000 full-time permanent employees. Rankings were compiled by the Partnership for Public Service (PPS), which presented awards to agency leaders at a Washington, D.C., ceremony today. Andrew Hallman, Principal Executive for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, accepted the award on behalf of the IC.

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The Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (ICIG) has released its Annual Work Plan, a summary of the congressionally-directed mandatory and discretionary projects it plans to undertake in Fiscal Year 2020. Each of the identified projects supports and furthers the ICIG’s statutory responsibility to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in the administration and implementation of the programs and activities within the responsibility and authority of the Director of National Intelligence, and to prevent and detect fraud and abuse in such programs and activities.

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The Offices of the Inspectors General (OIGs) for the Departments of Energy, Homeland Security, Justice, Defense, Commerce, Energy, and the Treasury, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), assessed the implementation of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (CISA) for Calendar Years 2017 and 2018 (Unclassified Report AUD-2019-005-U). The objective of the assessment was to review the actions taken over the prior, most recent, two-year period to carry out the requirements of CISA.

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The Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (ICIG) recently completed a review by its Inspections and Evaluations Division of the efficiency and effectiveness of the existing authorities, policies, and processes applicable to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI’s) oversight of Intelligence Community (IC) Major System Acquisitions (MSA) cybersecurity risks (INS-2019-003).

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The Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (ICIG) recently announced that it will conduct an evaluation of Intelligence Community (IC) implementation of security clearance reciprocity (INS-2020-001). The evaluation will include the following Intelligence Community elements:

  • Central Intelligence Agency
  • Defense Intelligence Agency
  • Department of State
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  • National Reconnaissance Office
  • National Security Agency
  • Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Security clearance reciprocity is a key element of security clearance reform. The Director of National Intelligence (DNI), as the Security Executive Agent, is responsible for ensuring reciprocal recognition of eligibility for access to classified information among Executive Branch agencies.

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The Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (ICIG) and the National Security Agency Office of Inspector General recently announced that they will participate in a joint review of management and intelligence oversight at the Intelligence Community Advanced Campaign Cell.

 

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) established the Intelligence Community Advanced Campaign Cell (IC ACC) in 2014. The IC ACC develops and applies innovative analytic and collection methods, technology, and tradecraft techniques that integrate multiple intelligence disciplines in support of IC efforts against the hardest problems.