5: Interacting with Collectors

To enhance communication and collaboration between the analytic and collection communities, to develop an integrated information needs/requirements process, to develop a rapid data integration capability, to help guide and inform future collection strategies and acquisitions within a fast-changing target environment.

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Desired Outcomes: FY 2005 -National integrated intelligence requirements process that links or replaces existing community committees and cuts across disciplines. -Integrated collection management tools and systems in transition or under development to improve visibility among collection managers, facilitate trade-offs, and provide the connectivity needed for efficient collection coordination among the various collection disciplines. -Integrated strategies for exploitation of open source information. -Comprehensive, community-wide evaluation program for analysis and collection. -Analytic community engaged in decisions about requirements for future collection systems. -Community-wide training to educate analysts about collection systems and capabilities and encourage greater analyst involvement in development of integrated strategies among the various collection disciplines. FY 2010 -National requirements process running smoothly. Analysts have the tools and ability to task and monitor status of collection requests; improved integration and collection strategies among all collection disciplines are the norm. -Cross-community evaluation tools provide Intelligence Community managers with data necessary to weigh trade-offs and make hard resource decisions. -Collection training mandatory at several stages of analysts' careers and collection-related rotations part of normal career progression. -Effective open source strategies firmly established. -Broad ranging, rapid integration and reporting from multiple sources in a virtual, collaborative network.

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5.1: Training Program

5.2: Collection Strategies

5.3: Collection Evaluation and Customer Satisfaction

5.4: Requirements Process

5.5: Resources

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