A.3: Environmental Alignment
Align operations and capabilities with the threat environment. Other Information:
To carry out its mission, the FBI requires a variety of capabilities or tools, some unique to the FBI and some leveraged from
the larger federal, state, and local government and business communities. The FBI uses these capabilities according to their
utility in countering emerging threats. When a terrorism, counterintelligence, cyber, or criminal threat is perceived, the
FBI strategically employs its limited personnel and financial resources, using the appropriate operational capabilities to
counter or eliminate the threat. To ensure maximum preparedness of these capabilities and strategic deployment of its operations,
it is imperative that the FBI have an organizationally shared view of the current and future threat and operating environment.
This shared view can only be achieved by fully integrating intelligence and investigative components. Investigations must
be intelligence driven in order to maximize their effectiveness and impact. Likewise, intelligence components must make full
use of information gleaned during investigative activities in order to accurately update and project the future threat and
operating environment. Priority Actions: Fully integrate intelligence and investigative work by ensuring that strategies are
based on an enterprise-wide understanding of the current and future threat environment. Continually develop, motivate, and
retain a highly trained, diverse and appropriately-sized intelligence workforce that is aligned with the Intelligence Human
Talent Needs Forecast. This includes assessing, evaluating, and implementing policies and procedures related to recruiting,
hiring, training, and career development for analysts and Special Agents who choose a career specialty in intelligence. Establish
organizational processes for developing, acquiring, and maintaining the information management infrastructure based upon the
Intelligence Technology Needs Forecast. Identify, justify, and communicate the financial resources required to support the
FBI intelligence mission, with a cross-programmatic budget formulation process that is aligned with the forecasting process.
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