Senior intelligence officials unveiled new measures to fix the nation’s encumbered intelligence system during a recent conference in Denver. The 16-agency Intelligence Community is “awash in data” but unable to use it efficiently, primarily because there’s access confusion, said Deputy Director of National Intelligence Thomas Fingar, reports the Denver Post. The IC still hasn’t settled on a method to determine which entity needs what data. Reform measures announced during the conference included developing a user-friendly standard format for intelligence reports and creating a “Wikipedia” style forum where all 16 agencies can contribute information.
Happy Birthday US Air Force: 78 Today
Sept. 18, 2025
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.