Congress wants the Army to start collecting more open-source intelligence

Buried deep in the 2025 National Defense Authorization is a short provision suggesting that the Army might—maybe, if it feels like it—look into standardizing the way it procures open-source intelligence-collection software.The provision says the Army secretary “may designate an existing program executive office within the Army to be responsible for the acquisition of open-source intelligence tools for the Army”—for example, software programs that scour the internet