https://spacewatch.global/tag/u-s-director-of-national-intelligence/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Thu, 31 Jan 2019 06:00:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/u-s-director-of-national-intelligence/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2019/01/space-wars-u-s-intelligence-chiefs-describe-growing-chinese-and-russian-space-threats/ Thu, 31 Jan 2019 06:00:41 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=12618 U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Dan Coats, along with the heads of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), gave testimony to the U.S. Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence about the Office of the DNI's latest Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community on 29 January 2019]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/04/u-s-officials-claim-russia-successfully-tested-nudol-asat-system/ Fri, 06 Apr 2018 04:00:08 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=8169 U.S. defence officials claim that Russia successfully tested its PL19 – Nudol antisatellite (ASAT) missile from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 26 March 2018, according to the online geopolitics and current affairs magazine The Diplomat.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/03/russian-defence-minister-shoigu-calls-military-satellites-modern-armed-forces/ Mon, 12 Mar 2018 06:00:30 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7781 The Russian military plans to modernise its operations with the use of satellites. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu made the announcement just two weeks after the U.S. Air Force announced that America must be prepared for space warfare. In his remarks last week speaking on a conference call with representatives of the Russian rocketry and space industries, Shoigu stressed that Russia must deploy a modern orbital constellation of military satellites to support its army and navy. "Only with support from space will it be possible for the Armed Forces to reach maximum effectiveness,” he said. “Therefore, we are paying special attention to this area,".]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/05/analyst-irans-cyber-warfare-capabilities-concern-hardly-sophisticated-dangerous/ Thu, 18 May 2017 08:00:56 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=4478 A prominent U.S. cyber warfare expert has admonished other cyber security experts for exaggerating the danger posed by Iran’s cyber warfare and espionage organisations and entities. Dr. Brandon Valeriano, a Reader at Cardiff University in Wales and author of Cyber War versus Cyber Realities published by Oxford University Press in 2015, told the U.S. Senate’s […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/05/u-s-intelligence-voices-concerns-iranian-satellite-jamming-spoofing-capabilities/ Wed, 17 May 2017 05:30:08 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=4450 The U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, voiced growing U.S. concerns about Iranian satellite jamming and spoofing activity in testimony he gave to the U.S. Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence in Washington, DC, on May 11, 2017. The testimony by Mr. Coats was part of the annual briefing on global threats to U.S. interests […]]]>