Intelligence Community Management

The US Intelligence Community in the 21st century can be evaluated through the performance of the community management system it provides. Under this community management are specific areas like collection management, personnel management, and production management.

Controlled by committees that make tasking decisions in a single-source framework, collection management has two centers for short-term collection of intelligence targets within the community. These centers are at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) jurisdiction. These centers work at its purpose but tasking collection or requesting information within its system is ineffective. When it comes to personnel management in the intelligence community, particularly within the CIA, new perspectives, skills and talents are required. And with this requirement, the community employ, appoint or borrow people from other agencies that would make them learn new ideas and contribute fresh perspectives.

One of the issues in the intelligence community management is the separation of funding between the intelligence and defense. The separation of the budgetfunds between these two is very difficult simply because of the scope of the defense which is argued to still include the intelligence department. Another issue is the promotional policies of the system which lacks incentives and tools that will promote the talents of the personnel of the intelligence community.

An effective intelligence community management lies on the performance of the intelligence community as a whole. This performance can only be evaluated through reviews of goals and statistics throughout a period of time.

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