Documents/SIP4ICA/3: Intelligence Priorities

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 nationallevel 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.

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