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(U) New IPT: Horizontal Integration Capability Needs
FROM:
Horizontal Integration IPT Executive Secretary
Run Date: 03/01/2004
FROM:
Horizontal Integration IPT Executive Secretary
(U//FOUO) The Horizontal Integration Capability Needs Integrated Product Team (IPT) has been
established to understand our current capability, define the requirements for the future, and plot
a path to get there. As the Director and Deputy Director have said, "It is not about the need to
know, but rather the need to share." The intellectual capital of the "analytic community" here at
NSA is as valuable as the SIGINT we produce, but its true value is only realized when it is
shared. To facilitate sharing -- be it raw data, analytic knowledge, or finished SIGINT -- we must
provide the necessary tools and policy framework.
(U//FOUO) The Horizontal Integration Capability Needs IPT will first gather the FY06 budget
pieces, which will quantify our near-term capabilities. It will do this by mid-March. Next it will
look to the future and how to get there. The IPT will develop operational scenarios that will put
the ideas of integration and sharing up against potential real world events. These scenarios will
have policy, legal, and cultural/people issues woven into them. Concurrent with the scenario
development is the development of a Transformation 2.0 CONOP and integrated systems
architecture.
(U//FOUO) Once they are completed, the IPT will use the CONOP, architecture, and mission
scenarios to perform a functional needs analysis that will expose the gaps in our ability to
collaborate and share. As we analyze our capabilities and needs, we will also work with internal
and external developmental efforts already underway. The IPT will bound our current
capabilities, define gaps in those capabilities, state the requirements to close our gaps, and
quantify what we will need to get to our desired goal. These efforts are key pieces to getting to
the next level of technological enablers to fulfill our "need to share." The team will finish the
analysis necessary to define the "to be" state of Horizontal Integration by mid-July, incorporate
vetted feedback, and submit a roll-out plan to the NSA Horizontal Integration Steering Group,
chaired by Mr. Jim Allen, by late August.
(U//FOUO) Members of the IPT are:
(S2) - Chair,
Russ Berkoff (DC4) - Deputy Chair,
Scott Thayer (S2) - Mentor,
(S01A);
Dr. Eric Haseltine (RAD);
(I),
(AB4),
(SDN),
April Doss (DC31),
(DK09),
(D21),
(DF),
(I11),
(RAD), and
(I11).
(U//FOUO) For more information or questions on this initiative, please contact
Horizontal Integration IPT Executive Secretary,
, or Scott Thayer, Horizontal
Integration IPT Mentor,
.
(U//FOUO) Note from SIGINT Communications: For some background information on this and
other IPT's, see the related message from Jim Allen , SID Deputy Director for A&P (S2).
"(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet
without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)."
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