1/25/19

Strategy Promotes Integration, Innovation, Partnerships, and Transparency for the 17 Intelligence Elements

Director of National Intelligence Daniel R. Coats unveiled the 2019 National Intelligence Strategy (NIS) today. The NIS is the guiding strategy for the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and will drive the strategic direction for the Nation’s 17 IC elements for the next four years.

The seven mission objectives are

1) strategic intelligence;

2) anticipatory intelligence;

3) current operations intelligence;

4) cyber threat intelligence;

5) counterterrorism;

6) counterproliferation; and

7) counterintelligence and security.

The seven enterprise objectives are

1) integrated mission management;

2) integrated business management;

3) people;

4) innovation;

5) information sharing and safeguarding;

6) partnerships; and

7) privacy, civil liberties, and transparency.

“These objectives will allow the IC to continue the crucial work of supporting our senior policymakers, warfighters, and democracy while increasing transparency and protecting privacy and civil liberties,” said Director Coats.

The NIS includes the seven Principles of Professional Ethics for the Intelligence Community:

1) mission;

2) truth;

3) lawfulness;

4) integrity;

5) stewardship;

6) excellence; and

7) diversity. The NIS also includes the Principles of Intelligence Transparency for the Intelligence Community.

“Transparency will be our hallmark, and I cannot stress this enough - this is not a limitation on us,” said Director Coats. “Transparency will make us stronger. It is the right thing to do, across the board. This is the reason we publish the NIS at the unclassified level.”

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/1941-strategy-promotes-integration-innovation-partnerships-and-transparency-for-the-17-intelligence-elements

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HOMEGROWN VIOLENT EXTREMIST MOBILIZATION INDICATORS 2019

https://www.dni.gov/files/NCTC/documents/news_documents/NCTC-FBI-DHS-HVE-Mobilization-Indicators-Booklet-2019.pdf

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US INTELLIGENCE WARNS OF ‘EVER MORE DIVERSE’ THREATS

WASHINGTON — Russia’s efforts to expand its influence and China’s modernizing military are among the “ever more diverse” threats facing the U.S., according to a major intelligence report released Tuesday.

The National Intelligence Strategy report, issued every four years, also singles out such potential threats as North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, the growing cyber capabilities of U.S. adversaries and global political instability.

The report, which sets out the priorities for the various agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, notes that the United States “faces an increasingly complex and uncertain world in which threats are becoming ever more diverse and interconnected.”

Read the full story on The Washington Post

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/ic-in-the-news/item/1944-us-intelligence-warns-of-ever-more-diverse-threats

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Remarks as prepared for delivery by

The Honorable Dan Coats

Director of National Intelligence

ODNI Presentation of the 2019 National Intelligence Strategy

Tuesday, January 22, 2018

Now, every good Presbyterian Pastor knows that a sermon must incorporate three points… It is almost a sin to do four – But, I must make one more point in closing. There is one more key component, as important as all the others combined.

None of this could be accomplished without you, the exceptional professionals of the U.S. Intelligence Community. You are our life blood, and you will be the ones to bring this Strategy to life.

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/speeches-interviews/item/1942-remarks-as-prepared-for-delivery-by-the-honorable-dan-coats-director-of-national-intelligence-presentation-of-the-2019-national-intelligence-strategy

Trump ordered 15,000 new border and immigration officers — but got thousands of vacancies instead

Two years after President Trump signed orders to hire 15,000 new border agents and immigration officers, the administration has spent tens of millions of dollars in the effort — but has thousands more vacancies than when it began.

In a sign of the difficulties, Customs and Border Protection allocated $60.7 million to Accenture Federal Services, a management consulting firm, as part of a $297-million contract to recruit, vet and hire 7,500 border officers over five years, but the company has produced only 33 new hires so far.

The president’s promised hiring surge steadily lost ground even as he publicly hammered away at the need for stiffer border security, warned of a looming migrant invasion and shut down parts of the government for five weeks over his demands for $5.7 billion from Congress for a border wall.

The Border Patrol gained a total of 120 agents in 2018, the first net gain in five years.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-border-patrol-hiring-20190126-story.html