6.4: Communications with External Partners

Improve communications with external research partners.

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Ease of communications—both open and secure—with external research partners is essential to fully integrate external research into the analytic process. To that end, we will need an appropriate suite of digital communications tools, including audio, video, graphical, and textual mechanisms. Implementing Actions: • Initiate a requirements study, in cooperation with the IC Chief Information Officer, that will lead to development of effective capabilities to communicate with external partners. Desired capabilities include webbased audio/video conferencing and whiteboards to share graphical or textual information (either at the desktop, or using standalone equipment or facilities)—thus enabling analysts and others to participate remotely in external research seminars, and classified and unclassified “chat-rooms.”

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