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(S//SI) IMT Changes: Fewer, All Full-Time
FROM: SIGINT Communications
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Run Date: 07/22/2004
(S//SI) SID leadership recently announced major changes to the Issue Management Team (IMT)
program. These changes are the result of a careful review of the first 18 months of the program
by a team of experts led by Jeanne Zimmer. The changes result in fewer IMTs, but with a fullfledged effort directed against each remaining focal area. Effective 12 July, the number of IMTs
was reduced by half, scaling down from fourteen IMTs to seven. In some cases, two of the old
IMTs were merged to form a single new IMT; in other cases IMTs were dissolved. In addition,
while some of the old IMTs worked on a part-time basis, all of the new IMTs will be full-time
positions.
(S//SI) Here's a rundown of the "before" and "after":
Pre-7/12 IMTs
Iraq
Counterterrorism
Combating Proliferation
Asia-Pacific
Korea
Latin America
Counternarcotics and Int'l Crime
MENA/Stans/India & Pakistan
Africa
Europe
Counterintelligence·
Weapons & Space·
Global Geopolitical Issues·
Information Operations
Current IMTs
Iraq
Counterterrorism
Combatting Proliferation
Asia-Pacific (incl. Korea)
Latin America/Crime & Narcotics
MENA
Sub-Saharan Africa/Europe
(S//SI) Other changes are being enacted, as well:
SID leadership will put in place two senior, full-time IMT advisors to help all of the new
teams. (Jeanne Zimmer is already at work, and
is scheduled to join her.)
Leaders are drawing up an IMT CONOP (Concept of Operations), incorporating input from
current and former IMT members.
Needed resources (budget, space, etc.) will be identified.
SID will name initial areas of concentration for each of the new IMTs.
(S//SI) The IMTs' job is to concentrate on strategic planning, assessing the end-to-end
performance of the SIGINT System against each topic. Since the IMT initiative has been so
successful in dealing with crises in Iraq and elsewhere, the teams are "here to stay." In the
words of Signals Intelligence Director MG Quirk, these changes represent "the next step in the
journey," as the directorate finds the best IMT structure to suit operational needs.
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