ODNI Clapper Case Study

If I was to provide a strategy to ODNI Clapper on initiatives that will have the most value to the IC enterprise those initiatives would be a major improvement on intelligence collections, processing and analyzing, terrorism, and cyber operations. Although budget cuts have definitely put a strain on the functioning capabilities of DNI, I would view this opportunity to prove that the IC could function just like other federal entities such as the military. Doing more with less is a challenge all of its own. Doing more with less in addition to trying to collect intelligence, process that intelligence and then properly and correctly analyze that intelligence, has just magnified that challenge 10 times. What my intelligence collection, processing and analyzing strategy would consist of would be to frequent training more often such as semi-annually opposed to annually.
Often the IC gets blamed for failures regardless if it’s the ICs fault or not pertaining to just about anything such as strategic surprises, transparency accusations and terrorism to name a few. I would pose that the more equipped on skill techniques that we keep our analysts coupled with

Funding, because adding an additional duty to an employee’s already assigned responsibilities without pay will run into a problem due to employees wanting to get paid a salary that equivalently match their skill set. With budget cuts already in effect, that would create more of a strain on funds. Personnel, because DNI may already be short on personnel due to budget cuts and cannot afford new hires right now. I feel the same restrictions will apply to my Cyber Operations strategy, funding and personnel. I do not see any potential obstacles or challenges to my Intelligence Collections, Processing and Analyzing strategy because DNI is should already be doing technique training on analytic