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Cost Estimating NewsBrief: September 11, 2026
NSA looks to AI to help analysts sift through vast data troves
(NextGov/FCW) The National Security Agency is leaning into artificial intelligence tools to process mass volumes of data it collects, allowing analysts to sort through tasks and find anomalies faster, a top official said Tuesday. “I think right now we’re looking at how to use an AI where we could triage so much more,” David Imbordino, the head of the agency’s cybersecurity directorate, said on a panel with officials from the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington, D.C. The agency ingests vast amounts of data every day, including intercepted foreign communications and electronic signals from radar and weapons systems. Imbordino’s directorate, in particular, focuses on both intelligence collection and cyberdefense. Read More
DOD Installation Services: Action Needed to Improve Oversight of Intergovernmental Support Agreements
(U.S. Government Accountability Office) Military bases use intergovernmental support agreements to receive, provide, or share services like utilities and road maintenance with state, local, and tribal governments. This Q&A report reviews these agreements. The military services’ processes for calculating and overseeing the financial benefits of some of these agreements didn’t meet best practices. This raises questions about the usefulness of its cost-benefit estimates. The numbers of these agreements increased from 45 to 316 between 2018 and 2025. Given this increase, we recommended ways to improve the military’s cost-benefit estimates. Read More
Air Force Officials Warn AI Is Compressing Cyberattack Timelines to Minutes
(Executive Gov) Advanced artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing the speed and accessibility of cyberattacks, pushing the command to accelerate its own defensive posture in response, U.S. Air Force officials said. Speaking at a conference in Montgomery, Alabama on August 26 (and reported by USAF public affairs on Thursday), Lt. Gen. Thomas Hensley, commander of 16th Air Force (Air Forces Cyber), said that frontier AI systems can now independently carry out steps that once demanded extensive human expertise and time, collapsing processes that used to take months into a matter of seconds. Read More
On 9/11, recall the patriots in 400 towers
(Federal News Network) When a regional airliner hit a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport last March, the investigation naturally included what was going on in the control tower. Last month, the Federal Aviation Administration said it would fire two air traffic controllers who’d gone home an hour before their shift ended. That left the tower without backup help on a busy night. The controllers had done what the aviation industry calls an “early shove.” The National Transportation Safety Board hasn’t yet determined whether the early shove contributed to the ground collision. An aviation management professor told Inc. that, under the apparently common practice, Read More
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