Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has said the availability of commercial encryption software “had and is having major, profound effects on our ability” to gather intelligence on the Islamic State organization, the Christian Science Monitor reported Monday.

Anne Mulrine writes Clapper made the remarks at a Monitor-hosted breakfast Monday in Washington.

Leaks of classified data from the National Security Agency by former contractor Edward Snowden have expedited the launch of advanced encryption tools by approximately seven years, he told reporters.

Clapper, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2016, said the development of unbreakable encryption tools could impede law enforcement authorities’ search efforts against terrorist groups and could “give the terrorists a pass.”

Clapper also mentioned the need to identify the balance between how to “ensure privacy and security on an individual basis, as well as security in the context of what’s best for the collective good.”

The U.S. Army and members of a General Atomics team displayed prototypes of anti-drone weapons that look to meet what the service branch calls “unlimited-ammunition” goals at the Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment event.

Two types of weaponry — one using lasers and the other using electricity-propelled projectiles — were displayed throughout the event that lasted from April 11 to 22 at Fort Sill, Army said Friday.

Lt. Col. Jeff Erts, experiment and war games chief at the Fort Sill Fires Battle Lab, said the Army looks to address drone threats that report locations of friendly troops and call in large barrages of enemy fire.

“We don’t currently have anything to take those down. So we’re really working to put something in the field that can destroy these before they have a chance to report on our soldiers’ locations,” Erts added.

The Army said the first weapon demonstrated was a compact laser weapons system — mountable on a Stryker armored vehicle or on an independent vehicle — that melts plastic and burns through metal that can render drones flightless or damage its reconnaissance features.

General Atomics also displayed a railgun that uses bus bars, where electricity flows through to generate propelling force for a round built to travel at six times the speed of sound.

The Defense Information Systems Agency has rebranded its Continental U.S. Field Command organization to the name of “Global Operations Command” as DISA seeks to expand the organization’s mission set.

Global Operations Command will be responsible for the defense of networks that support 46 enterprise missions and services and the DISA-managed portion of the Defense Department‘s information networks, DISA said Monday.

DGOC will also act as a Tier II computer network defense service provider for 108 mission partners that include five combatant commands, 15 defense agencies and organizations, nine cleared defense contractors and two federal agencies.

“The name change more accurately reflects the true mission of the organization, which is global defense and operations of DISA’s portion of the DOD Information Networks,” said Army Col. Paul Craft, DGON’s commander.

“Our mission extends far beyond the continental United States.”

The command will be housed in a 164,000-square-foot, $100 million facility that is scheduled to have workers move in from June and a ribbon-cutting ceremony in August.

“[DGOC] is the service manager for the agency’s worldwide Internet protocol infrastructure and services that makeup the Defense Information System Network, to include the non-secure IP Router Network, Secret IP Router Network, and IP voice and video services,” added Scott Rodakowski, civilian deputy director of DISA’s operations center.