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April 2005 Intelligence News

  • Intelligence Officials Update Senators on Advances AFPS 29 Apr 2005 -- The "remodeling of defense intelligence" is an ongoing, adaptive effort, a top defense intelligence official told the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 28.
  • Rumsfeld Meets with New National Intelligence Director VOA 28 Apr 2005 -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld met at the Pentagon Thursday with the man some analysts predict he will clash with in the Bush administration's second term, the country's first director of national intelligence, John Negroponte. Officials provided no details of the meeting, and canceled plans for the men to face reporters afterward, but two senior Defense intelligence officials testified before a Senate committee about how they will accommodate the creation of the new level of intelligence management.
  • Lockheed Martin and Aerosonde Enter Strategic Alliance for Unmanned Aircraft System Solutions Lockheed Martin 28 Apr 2005 -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], Aerosonde North America, Inc, and Aerosonde Pty Limited today announced the establishment of a multi-national strategic alliance to provide Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) solutions for domestic and international markets.
  • Space, air, information warfare centers integrate capabilities AFPN 27 Apr 2005 -- The Air Force is integrating some forces to better manage air, space and information operations combat capabilities to support missions worldwide, Air Force officials announced April 26.
  • Boeing Receives $14.5 Million Navy Contract For ScanEagle UAVs Boeing 25 Apr 2005 -- Boeing [NYSE:BA] received a $14.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy for unmanned aerial vehicle services in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the Global War on Terror.
  • Senior intelligence officer selected for promotion AFPN 25 Apr 2005 -- The Department of Defense's senior uniformed intelligence officer was selected for promotion and reassignment April 22.
  • `Buckeye' helping detect IEDs in Iraq Army News 25 Apr 2005 -- Soldiers' lives may be saved as a result of a new technology that aids in the detection of improvised explosive devices, according to experts from the Army Corps of Engineers' Research and Development Center.
  • FBI Whistleblower Court Hearing Closed to Public VOA News 21 Apr 2005 -- A federal appeals court Thursday barred the public from hearing arguments in the case of a contractor who was fired by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, after alleging misconduct and possible espionage inside the agency.
  • Negroponte Sworn in as First US National Intelligence Director VOA News 21 Apr 2005 -- U.S. lawmakers, concerned about intelligence lapses prior to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and faulty intelligence about Iraq's weapons in the run-up to the U.S.-led war in that country, created the national director position as part of a broader intelligence reform initiative.
  • US Deports Suspected Cuban Spy VOA News 20 Apr 2005 -- An alleged Cuban spy who went on a month-long hunger strike to protest his detention by the United States has been deported.
  • Boeing ScanEagle Demonstrates Net-Centric Technologies at Joint Military Demonstration Boeing 20 Apr 2005 -- Boeing [NYSE:BA] and a team of industry and academic researchers demonstrated a series of advanced network-centric technologies at a joint military exercise held at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The technologies were developed under sponsorship from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), with support from Air Force Research Laboratories.
  • ScanEagle patrols Iraq: VMU-2 deploys unmanned system USMC News 17 Apr 2005 -- Iraq-Unmanned aerial vehicles have changed the way commanders, in the 21st century, decide on when and where to wage battles. The technology is more widely relied upon for today's fight in the Global War on Terrorism.
  • Intel Director, Deputy Nominees Get Committee's Approval AFPS 15 Apr 2005 -- A Senate committee approved the president's nominations of John D. Negroponte and Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden to become the director and deputy director, respectively, of national intelligence after an April 14 Capitol Hill hearing.
  • FIXING INTELLIGENCE VOA 13 Apr 2005 -- The U.S. intelligence apparatus has been modified over the years, but the basic structure is little changed from when the Central Intelligence Agency was created in 1947.
  • Negroponte Vows to Help Close Intelligence Gaps AFPS 13 Apr 2005 -- Good, solid intelligence is the United States' first line of defense, and the nation's 15 intelligence community elements need to work more cooperatively to bolster this line, the nominee for first director of national intelligence said April 12.
  • BAE SYSTEMS Achieves First Untethered Flight Of Vertical - Takeoff Unmanned Aerial Vehicle BAE Systems 13 Apr 2005 -- LOS ANGELES -- BAE Systems has achieved the first untethered flight of its second-generation ducted-fan unmanned aerial vehicle. The vertical-launch aircraft, built for risk reduction on the Defense Advanced Research Project Agencys (DARPA) Organic Air Vehicle Class II (OAV II) program, twice completed a course of 10 waypoints at Southern Californias Hansen Field.
  • U.S.: Intelligence Failings Cloud Hearings On Key Posts RFE/RL 13 Apr 2005 -- Intelligence failures in advance of the war in Iraq have resounded again this week in hearings for two key nominees of U.S. President George W. Bush. Democrats in the U.S. Senate committee overseeing the nomination of the ambassador to the United Nations have spent two days questioning whether nominee John Bolton sought to manipulate intelligence during his term as an arms control official. And a separate committee sought assurances from John Negroponte that as the new national intelligence director he would provide an objective voice to policymakers following lapses on Iraq.
  • INTELLIGENCE FAILURE AND CHANGE VOA 13 Apr 2005 -- In recent years there has been sharp criticism, from many quarters, on the performance level of the U.S. intelligence community. But efforts to improve the effectiveness of intelligence-gathering and analysis appear to have fallen short.
  • CONGRESS/INTELLIGENCE/UN VOA 12 Apr 2005 -- President Bush's nominee to be the first U.S. national intelligence director says he will work to improve cooperation among spy agencies, in an effort to prevent another terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
  • Negroponte Vows To Reform U.S. Intelligence RFE/RL 12 Apr 2005 -- U.S. President George W. Bush's nominee to oversee the United States' spy agencies pledged today to focus on reforming the intelligence community.
  • Northrop Grumman Conducts First Flight of Endurance Hunter UAV Northrop Grumman 11 Apr 2005 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has conducted the first flight of a new configuration of the U.S. Army's RQ-5A unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system called the Endurance Hunter (E-Hunter).
  • MOSCOW PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE TO LOOK INTO EX-HEAD OF FSB DEPARTMENT MURDER CASE RIA Novosti 11 Apr 2005 -- The case of murder of retired Colonel General Anatoly Trofimov, ex-Head of Federal Security Service (FSB) Department of Moscow and the Moscow region, has been submitted to the prosecutor's office of the capital, a spokesman for the press service of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying.
  • Global Hawk Reaches 4,000th Combat Flight Hour Supporting the Global War on Terrorism Northrop Grumman 04 Apr 2005 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) RQ-4 Global Hawk reached 4,000 combat hours on March 23 during an operational mission in support of the war on terrorism.
  • U.S.: Does Intelligence Report Signal Trouble With Allies? RFE/RL 04 Apr 2005 -- Last week, a U.S. presidential commission found serious flaws in American intelligence gathering in the run-up to the Iraq war. The commission also found that spies know, in its words, "disturbingly little" about nuclear threats around the world.
  • Intelligence System 'Needs Fundamental Change,' Bush Says AFPS 02 Apr 2005 -- Conclusions provided by an independent commission on intelligence show that America's intelligence community requires "fundamental change to enable us to successfully confront the threats of the 21st century," President Bush said April 2.
  • BUSH/WMD VOA 02 Apr 2005 -- President Bush says he will make changes to U.S. intelligence services following a critical report by a presidential commission that says American intelligence officers know little about threats from many of the world's most dangerous nations.
  • U.S.-IRAQ: Report Cites U.S. Intelligence Failures On Iraq, Urges Reform RFE/RL 01 Apr 2005 -- A bipartisan commission recommended on 31 March that U.S. President George W. Bush institute broad changes in the way the United States gathers intelligence. Its findings point to massive failures preceding the war with Iraq, and said those problems persist today.



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