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.

Other Information:

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 collectionrelated 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.

Objective(s):

5.1: Collection Management and Systems Training

5.2: Analysts and Collectors

5.3: Collection Evaluation and Customer Satisfaction

5.4: Requirements Process

5.5: Processing and Exploitation Resources

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