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(C) DA and DIA Collaborate on Collection
FROM:
Data Acquisition (S3) Chief of Staff
Run Date: 10/19/2004
(C) In mid-September, Data Acquisition hosted several visitors from the Defense Intelligence
Agency's Directorate of MASINT and Technical Collection and Directorate of Human Intelligence
for a collection-enabling meeting. As our DIA visitors were briefed on activities within Data
Acquisition, including the Collection Strategies and Requirements Center (CSRC), Link Access,
Cryptanalysis and Exploitation Services (CES) and Tailored Access Operations (TAO), many
examples of the similar challenges both agencies experience crystallized. Several
representatives from the Customer Relationships Directorate (CRD) and from Analysis &
Production were also present.
(C) For example, both Data Acquisition and DIA counterparts are investigating ways to measure
progress from an end-to-end mission management perspective. Each is challenged with keeping
up with the fast pace of technology (remember the horn graph?) by developing ways to exploit
new, emerging forms of communications -- without losing sight of the more common
technologies that are still used around the world by our targets. Each must find a way to ensure
that collection results in delivering relevant, actionable, timely intelligence to our common
customers. Each organization is addressing ways to eliminate or refine collection of irrelevant
data. And both agencies see the need to go far beyond just coordination of their individual
activities -- integration into each other's operations is the key to truly be effective.
(C) As a result, the CSRC is working with DIA representatives and with the CRD Customer
Account Manager to find ways to work more closely. The possibilities range from Collection
Officer exchanges to permanent integrees, as well as collaborative efforts against particular
targets. This will result in a closer collaboration between DA and DIA to fill common gaps, to
address mutual challenges and to build an effective partnership that reduces redundancy and
increases effectiveness.
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