Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Richard Grenell on Friday announced the creation of an intelligence community (IC) \u201ccyber executive\u201d as part of other organizational changes.<\/p>\n
According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the new position will \u201cprovide a single ODNI focus point for the cyber mission, which will strengthen the IC\u2019s cyber posture to better defend U.S. national security interests.\u201d<\/p>\n
Consolidation:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The cyber executive position will oversee four consolidated, previously separate ODNI cyber-focused organizations.<\/p>\n The ODNI did not immediately respond to The Hill\u2019s request for comment on which four organizations would be combined, or whether an individual had been selected to fill the position.<\/p>\n The creation of the cyber executive post comes after more than a year of staff and leadership review of organizational changes, according to the ODNI.<\/p>\n Other changes announced by Grenell on Friday included the establishment of the \u201cDirector\u2019s Advisor for Military Affairs\u201d position. This individual will serve as Grenell\u2019s principal adviser for defense issues, and is intended to boost the ODNI\u2019s efforts to collaborate with the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n The changes will also eliminate the ODNI\u2019s Directorate of National Security Partnerships and transfer its functions to other ODNI offices. The group was tasked with coordinating IC and defense intelligence operations, among other duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI)...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24546,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24545\/revisions\/24546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}