- DIA expands cyber intelligence capabilities through new center
- Leidos highlighted AI applications for cyber analytics workflows
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Federal News Network reported Monday that Eric Miller, senior adviser for open source intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency, said the DIA recently launched a Cyber Intelligence Center to better utilize OSINT as part of an ongoing effort within the Analysis Directorate.
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How is DIA leveraging AI and OSINT?
Miller said the center takes an all-source approach to identifying cyber attackers and developing operationally relevant intelligence products by integrating various intelligence disciplines. He made the remarks during an FNN webinar.
Miller said DIA is using AI to help analysts manage the growing amount of data available and identify opportunities to apply technology across the agency. In March, the agency introduced the Digital Modernization Accelerator to consider AI applications.
“What we’re trying to do is, in the trenches, we’re looking at innovations that leverage AI. We’ve talked about oceans of data, so how do you sift through tens of thousands, tens of millions of data?” he said. “We’re trying to leverage AI to understand that. Once we’ve done that, we need to create a report on that. That’s another automated process that we need to do, because if we’re building more products, we need to be able to report even faster.”
How does Leidos support AI-powered cyber analytics?
Kevin Fogarty, senior vice president and chief technology officer of intelligence at Leidos, said AI could help augment human analysts by improving access to data and supporting cyber defense decision-making.
Fogarty said Leidos processes large volumes of OSINT feeds and indicators of compromise, adding that AI could help analysts identify relationships and prioritize relevant information.
“Artificial intelligence is more than just a magic wand. How we use it to augment the work of human analysts and enable them to operate with the highest reliability so that when we carry out our mission to protect assets, stocks, and cyberinfrastructure, we can do so with the latest tools and the broadest possible data access,” he said.
How is the State Department leveraging AI for cyber resilience?
Garne Lacey, the State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for cyber and technology security, said AI capabilities could help analysts identify trends and identify adversary activity.
“We’re looking at AI in terms of decision support for analysts: identifying trends, identifying broken trends and directing analysts to where they actually need to do the work, combining it with automation to automate tickets, automate information flow, tier 1, tier 2, tier 3. It automates the pipeline between tier analysts, which allows data to flow and allows each analyst to do more real human analysis,” Lacey said during the webinar.
Lacey said using AI and automation to support analysts is part of the State Department’s approach to improving network and system resiliency.
