The Data and Partnership Interoperability (DPI) office works to develop and further partnerships to enable the development, adoption, and use of solutions and standards that promote data and information sharing, safeguarding, and interoperability.
The office's mission is to:
- Lead the IC in managing information and data to ensure that it gets to the right people at the right time in the right format, while building, enabling, and maintaining domestic partnerships.
- Mutually share information, people, processes, technologies, innovations, and ideas to inform decision making at all levels while advancing the IC mission and strengthening national security.
Key Functions:
- Foster development, adoption, and use of solutions and standards that promote data and information sharing, safeguarding, and interoperability across the IC and between the IC and its external national security partners.
- Strengthen existing and develop new external partnerships to enhance intelligence integration and improve access to information to meet IC mission needs.
- Build and enable private sector partnerships to mutually share expertise and capabilities to advance IC missions
- Pivot to a data-centric culture: make data-driven decisions; develop a more data savvy IC workforce; transform our data management tradecraft for the digital age.
- ADNI/DPI is dual-hatted as the IC Chief Data Officer (IC CDO) and the IC Information Sharing & Safeguarding Executive (IC ISSE).
Key Partners
- Partner with private sector to establish common goals/shared understanding of threats to national security
- Develop private sector as a consumer of IC information and identify/understand/prioritize private sector customer information needs
The Data and Partnership Interoperability (DPI) office comprises four groups: Federal, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (FSLTT) Partnerships Group (FPG); Private Sector Group (PSG); Data Sharing Group (DSG); and Data Future Group (DFG). DPI leads the IC in managing information and data to ensure that it gets to the right people at the right time in the right format, while building, enabling, and maintaining domestic partnerships. ADNI/DPI is dual hatted as the IC Chief Data Officer (IC CDO) and the IC Information Sharing & Safeguarding Executive (IC ISSE).
Data Sharing Group
- Guide and oversee development of IC data strategy, standards, acumen, policy, and services related to sharing & safeguarding information and data
- Lead efforts to improve information and data discovery, access, and use
- Advocate for data and information interoperability between IC and Non-IC organizations
- Serve as action arm for the IC Chief Data Officer (IC CDO) and IC Information Sharing & Safeguarding Executive (IC ISSE)
Data Future Group
- Partner with members of the IC and private sector to identity future digital and data transformation needs
- Lead IC initiatives to influence innovation, immersive and emerging technologies to accelerate whole-of-government adoptions
- Guide and oversee the development of an IC framework for integrating policy, standards, and best practices for data future needs
- Serve as an advisor to the IC Chief Data Officer (IC CDO) on future digital and IC Information Sharing & Safeguarding Executive (IC ISSE)
Private Sector Group
- Partner with private sector to establish common goals/shared understanding of threats to national security
- Develop private sector as a consumer of IC information and identify/understand/prioritize private sector customer information needs
- Lead IC initiatives to develop and maintain trusted and enduring private sector relationships
- Develop/modernize policies and authority documents that remove barriers to two-way information sharing
- Identify new capabilities and opportunities to address the changing global threat environment
- Deepen knowledge of industry trends and transformative capabilities
Federal, State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Partnerships Group
- Synchronize federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial engagement, transparency, and data sharing
- Lead the ODNI's engagement with federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial partners
- Identify opportunities to enhance two-way information sharing between the IC and federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial partners
Legislative Affairs (LA) acts as the principal interface between the ODNI and Congress.
LA consists of three teams composed of subject matter expert liaison officers whose mission is to guide and support ODNI offices and components in their interactions with Congress.
Sara Lynn Pickett is the current Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Legislative Affairs.
Legislative Affair's (LA) mission is to act as the principal interface between the ODNI (and the IC on certain issues) and Congress. Its charge is to facilitate the implementation of those sections of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended, which stipulate that the heads of the IC agencies shall keep the Congressional intelligence committees fully and currently informed of all intelligence activities of the United States. This is accomplished through hearings, budget documentation, briefings, Congressional Notifications, written reports, site visits, correspondence, phone calls, and emails.
LA provides support and legislative strategies to senior ODNI leadership; leads Congressional engagements on behalf of the ODNI; obtains Congressional support for ODNI/IC budget requests and authorities/policies; and in coordination with the Office of the General Counsel provides IC views and support to the White House and National Security Council Staff on legislative matters.
The EEO oversees the ODNI compliance with federal laws, policies, procedures, and requirements relating to Equal Employment Opportunity. The EEO also develops initiatives, policies and programs, and provides training, guidance, and consultation to diverse stakeholders. EEO provides the ODNI with unbiased counsel to individuals who seek to resolve workplace conflicts.