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(C) DIA Changing its Approach to Analysis
FROM:
NSA Representative to DIA's Directorate of Analysis and Production (S112)
Run Date: 10/27/2004
The changes are aimed at looking beyong current intelligence needs. (C)
(C) On 6 October,
the Research Director for DIA's Directorate for Analysis, briefed
SID leadership on VADM Jacoby's* plan to realign DoD all-source analytic resources. This plan,
officially titled the Defense Intelligence Analysis Program, but better known as "the 3Ms" for one
of its basic tenets -- Master, Measure, and Monitor -- represents a fundamental change in the
way that DIA approaches analysis.
(C)
outlined the concerns that led to the development of this new plan -- the focus on
current intelligence at the expense of strategic intelligence, the Intelligence Community's
seeming inability to identify potential crisis areas before they erupted, and unidentified
intelligence gaps. The Master, Measure, Monitor plan realigns the analytic responsibilities of the
various elements of the Defense Intelligence Community, and is designed to refine the
community's ability to provide global situational awareness and warning of developing security
issues while developing analytic depth against critical enduring issues.
(C) This is accomplished by grouping intelligence efforts into three categories:
Master : the requirement to understand some issues and nations in great depth and
breadth -- know everything about everything;
Measure : to understand selected elements of some targets in great depth -- know
everything about some topics; and
Monitor : maintain global situational awareness -- know something about everything.
In addition, the plan is designed to eliminate analytic duplication by assigning responsibility for
each topic area to that element of the community, (DIA, the Service Intelligence elements or
Command Intelligence) with the optimum capability to accomplish the assigned tasks.
(S)
noted that this plan correlates well with the recent briefings on the National
Intelligence Priorities Framework 5-year outlook, briefed two weeks ago at the National
Intelligence Analysis and Production Board. He also stated that DIA will begin working on the
major target areas in the "Master" country list by conducting a thorough review of the IC's
collective knowledge on North Korean nuclear development.
(S) A working group of DIA, NSA, and NGA experts in this area will stand up shortly to begin this
effort. Follow-on groups will bring together experts in the other topics and nations that comprise
the "Master" list.
(U) Notes:
* Vice Admiral Jacoby is the DIA Director
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