Overview

• Gabbard told an Amazon Web Services conference that the intelligence community should purchase industry technologies instead of building tools in-house to concentrate on core missions.
• She said AI programs cut declassification time drastically by scanning thousands of pages related to the JFK and RFK assassinations in hours rather than months.
• She established a task force within the Director’s Initiatives Group to study operational changes, expand declassification and create unclassified collaboration spaces at Liberty Crossing.
• She has fired veteran intelligence officers, eliminated diversity and inclusion programs and shifted the President’s Daily Brief staff to her office, raising concerns about politicization.
• Supporters say AI and private-sector partnerships will modernize intelligence work but detractors warn her lack of prior experience could undermine internal oversight.