3: Intelligence Priorities

To foster development of coherent strategies to establish substantive priorities that meet the competing demands of policymakers, military planners, and law enforcement officials for current intelligence, long-term analysis, and strategic warning, and to provide collectors with more specific requirements guidance.

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Desired Outcomes: FY 2005 • An improved priorities process to deal with potential crises. • Requirements guidance to collectors is specific enough to support collection tasking systems. • DCI launches fully resourced IC strategic assessments component. • The DCI priorities framework is hosted continuously on web-based software, with analysts, collectors, and consumers having access to the system. FY 2010 • Quarterly reviews of automated national level priorities by the analytic community occur. • Comprehensive processes are established to identify potential crises and conduct oversight to ensure appropriate analytic and collection responses. • A National Strategic Estimates Center is established, with full policymaker participation and financial support. • The IC can meet all demands for strategic analysis by policymakers, military planners, and law enforcement officials. • IC strategic warning integrates policy and defense communities in an Intelligence Community program supported by full-time methodologists and gaming experts. • Full electronic collaboration on prioritization of tasking, production, and dissemination exists. Implementing Actions: • The ADCI/AP will inaugurate an NIPB working group to develop guiding principles and a concept of operations for a new DCI-managed national-level priorities framework with a dynamic and continuous process to circulate and update DCI priorities. • NIPB agencies and the NIC will increase investment in strategic analysis over the next ten years to boost the quality and quantity of their output and to respond to the growing demand from policymakers, Commanders-in-Chief (CINCs), and resource planners. • The Chairman of the NIC will strengthen the role of the DCI production committees in the strategic analysis process. This will involve policy changes that broaden the responsibilities of the committees in supporting a broader range of IC missions and consumers and, beginning in 2002, it will include modest increases in funds for technical analysis. • By 2002, the Community’s warning staff will expand to include professional methodologists who will routinely structure IC games, as well as competitive and alternative analysis, on long-term and short-term issues of high stakes to the United States. The IC recognizes the growing need for this capability to test analytic assumptions and judgments for both current and estimative production, especially when collection shortfalls engender significant debate among analysts.

Objective(s):

3.1: Agility, Accessibility, and Automation

3.2: Organizational Structure

3.3: Resource Allocation

3.4: National Priorities

3.5: Strategic Analysis

3.6: Strategic Warning

3.7: Streamlining and Accountability

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