5.4: Requirements Process
Develop a National Integrated Intelligence Requirements Process. Other Information:
We must establish a single process to integrate and prioritize requirements across disciplines and mission areas. Without
such a process, collectors will be left to integrate and prioritize requirements within their separate stovepipes; the analytic
community will continue to have poor visibility into the status of collection; the Intelligence Community will be deprived
of a means to make efficient trade-offs across platforms and manage future acquisitions; and non-military national information
requirements will continue to compete for collection satisfaction on an individual basis with the vast quantity of military
requirements that are fully integrated and prioritized. This process must allow Community analysts to submit, integrate, and
prioritize information needs for all collectors and provide analysts and collectors visibility into the status of collection
through the entire tasking, processing, exploitation, and dissemination cycle. It must include a leadership entity with responsibility
for adjudicating conflicts on intelligence priorities; assuring balanced collection; identifying future requirements; and
supporting strategic planning. Implementing Actions: • Build on recent studies to map the existing requirements process. Based
on these studies, develop a framework and processes for integrating and prioritizing intelligence needs. • Establish an Annual
Integrated Information Requirements Plan that will provide prioritized direction to the ADCI for Collection’s annual plan
for allocating collection. Marry this plan to software that will allow dynamic updating of priorities. • Work with existing
individual Community collection committees and/or mechanisms to provide: Community-recognized, integrated information priorities
to the collectors; substantive guidance during surge situations; and integrated and prioritized future information needs to
the new future requirements board. • In conjunction with the above, monitor and support the pre-acquisition efforts of the
integrated IC collection management system and of the agency requirements systems.
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