Spymaster | United States
Jeffrey Kruse, the Pentagon's trump card for speeding up DIA's transition to strategic competition

The Agencies' Gazette
SGDSN anniversary watch, ODNI military adviser, Kyiv's Africa plan

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

FranceBespoke watches for SGDSN's 120th anniversary

USTulsi Gabbard's new military adviser is a Marine

UkraineA plan for Kyiv's return to Africa

United States
Pentagon strives to boost intel capabilities on adversaries' cyber intentions

Congress wants the Department of Defense to set up resources for producing intelligence on the cyber capabilities and intentions of the United States' adversaries by 2026. This will be a major technical and organisational challenge for the next US administration.

Spotlight | United States
Presidential race, part 5: DIA exploits its focus on China to push ahead with agenda

The Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency is to set up an office close to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's HQ. The aim is to strengthen its integration within the intelligence community and to be more effective in its surveillance of Beijing's military capabilities.

United States
Washington embraces broader rules for OSINT under CIA guidance

The recent decision by US intelligence agency ODNI to include commercially available information in the official definition of open sources attests to the speed at which the information environment is evolving. The CIA is guiding the intelligence community through these fast-moving changes.

Spotlight | United States
Intelligence becomes diplomatic weapon at US State Department

The head of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Brett Holmgren, will take part in the Annual Threat Assessment hearings. It's a clear sign of his service's growing power at a time when the Biden administration is seeking to develop its use of intelligence as a diplomatic tool.

Iran
Western intelligence tracking Iran's movements in Red Sea

Iran's Quds Force is deploying special naval intelligence resources to support Houthi operations in what is a strategic hub of global maritime trade.

Spymaster | United States
Avril Haines, an atypical professional, steers US intelligence transformation

The first woman to head the US intelligence community as Director of National Intelligence inherited a fragile bureaucracy facing multiple adaptation challenges at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions. Fortunately she has Joe Biden's ear.