6: External Analysis

To enhance our analysis through collaboration with academia, industry, and nongovernmental organizations, to expand our knowledge base, share burdens, challenge assumptions, bring additional perspectives to bear, and encourage innovative thinking.

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Desired Outcomes: FY 2005 -Routine interagency collaboration on external research plans, objectives, and events. -New external interaction policies and legislation focused on risk management. -IC skills clearinghouse, policies, and contracting vehicle to support an Intelligence reserve. -Convenient collaboration with external experts at both classified and unclassified levels. -Easy and routine use of alternative/competitive analysis in appropriate IC products. -IC-level strategy to set priorities for data mining and Internet exploitation. FY 2010 -Analytic, policy, and legislative culture that supports full exploitation and integration of external experts. -Intelligence reserve fully operational and part of IC planning and support. -Real-time collaboration from analytic desktop at multiple levels of security as appropriate. -Alternative/competitive analysis fully integrated into IC products as appropriate. -Increased level of effort to engage external expertise is tied to IC strategy to exploit the expanding realm of unclassified information.

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6.1: Intelligence Community Reserve

6.2: Interagency Visibility

6.3: Information Environment

6.4: External Research Partners

6.5: Competitive and Alternative Analysis

6.6: Partnerships Strategy

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