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Intelligence Community Centers for Academic Excellence (IC CAE) Program
The Intelligence Community Centers for Academic Excellence (IC CAE) Program was established in 2005 to meet the nation’s demand for a diverse cadre of professionals to carry out national security priorities and obligations.
The IC CAE Program’s purpose is to develop a cadre of qualified intelligence professionals to carry out America’s long-term national security initiatives by creating a competitive, knowledgeable, and diverse workforce through the provision of single and multi-year grants to colleges and universities. Schools selected as grant recipients are known as IC CAE Program Schools. Students that participate in IC CAE Program School-funded curricula and programs are made aware these efforts are funded by the IC and are given the opportunity to work towards becoming an IC CAE Scholar, an elite status obtained by achieving certain milestones. This association propels the students toward becoming an IC talent pool of choice.
The program encourages eligible institutions of higher education to submit proposals that support curricula and programs that will create, attract, and sustain a robust, knowledgeable, and diverse talent pool in multi-disciplinary areas of interest to the IC. The legislation that established the program emphasized increasing the diversity of the IC workforce, therefore, the IC CAE Program is especially interested in institutions with diverse populations of talent and in geographically diverse (rural) locations. The IC CAE Program creates a community of committed IC professionals and academic faculty who will increase students’ knowledge of the IC and develop the critical skills needed to satisfy the national security mission as we build the right, trusted, agile workforce.
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Congress passed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act Dec. 17, 2004, establishing the position of the Director of National Intelligence and the supporting Office of the DNI. Six days later, Congress established the Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer through the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2005, empowering the position with Community-wide authority over enterprise architecture. The act established four areas of IC CIO responsibility above and beyond those accorded to other federal-level CIOs through legislation.
- Manage activities relating to IC Information Technology infrastructure and Enterprise Architecture requirements.
- Exercise procurement approval authority over all IT items related to IC EA components.
- Direct/manage IC IT-related procurement.
- Ensure all expenditures for IT research and development are consistent with the IC EA and the DNI’s strategy for such architecture.
The Office of the IC CIO is organized to respond to the mission, business, and technology needs of the Intelligence Community, ensuring IC collectors and analysts have the secure services and capabilities they need to effectively do their jobs. The Office of the IC CIO has four divisions: Strategic Programs, Mission Engagement, Information Assurance, and Information Management.
Douglas Cossa is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Intelligence Community (IC)
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Vision for the IC Information Environment - An Information Technology Roadmap
Mission: To enable enhanced mission success by leading IT transformation and protection of the Intelligence Community's Information Environment.
Vision: The IC executes its mission with increasing effectiveness, integration, and agility to stay ahead of threats.
In 2012, the IC CIO embarked on the largest IT transformation in the history of the Intelligence Community. This transformation, guided by the IC Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE) Strategy, is focused on enabling greater integration, information sharing, and information safeguarding through a common IC IT approach that substantially reduces costs. The IC ITE “officially opened for business” in August 2013.
The Office of the IC CIO provides strategic direction and oversight for the planning, assessing, implementing, and monitoring of IC ITE activities in support of the IC ITE vision of an “Integrated Intelligence Enterprise.”
The IC ITE Strategy 2016-2020 is focused on the three primary goals of IC ITE:
Goal 1: Enhance Intelligence Integration
Promote the Intelligence Community’s ability to integrate and unify intelligence activities by fully leveraging IC ITE.
Goal 2: Optimize Information Assurance to Secure and Safeguard the IC Enterprise
Enhance IC mission success through a trusted collaborative environment while protecting national intelligence information, sources, and methods, as well as privacy and civil liberties.
Goal 3: Operate as an Efficient, Effective IC Enterprise
Achieve an IC ITE operating model that employs common business practices and Community teams to deliver, adopt, and sustain shared enterprise services and capabilities across the IC.
The IC ITE represents a strategic shift from agency-centric information technology (IT) to a common enterprise platform where the IC can easily and securely share technology, information, and capabilities across the Community. To enable this change, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), in consultation with the applicable IC element head, has designated IC elements as service providers, who assume the responsibility for developing and maintaining IC ITE services of common concern. IC ITE Services are the capabilities and shared solutions that are being delivered across the IC to help complete the vision of IC ITE. These services currently include: a common desktop environment; a joint cloud environment; an applications mail; an enterprise management capability; identification, authentication, and authorization capabilities; network requirements and engineering services; and a security coordination service.
Working with the IC under the IC ITE Strategy, the IC CIO facilitates the development, implementation, and adoption of seamless and secure enterprise solutions that promote trusted collaboration – connecting people to people, people to data, and data to data. The strategy enhances the IC’s ability to securely discover, access, and share information across agencies and ultimately enables greater mission success.
IC ITE Implementation is an evolving process of consolidating and adopting Community capabilities. With the adoption of IC ITE Services, users will have broader and faster access to data and an increased ability to collaborate on common systems across the IC in ways that enhance mission integration and optimize mission success.
The Chief Finanical Officer's responsibilities include:
- Lead for the NIP budget guidance: Draft performance, procedural, and fiscal guidance
- Advise DNI and senior leadership: Provide strategy for budget formulation, justification, and execution
- Build and defend the NIP budget: Develop DNI Decision Documents, CBJB, budget testimony, appeals, supplemental appropriations, OMB Topline Requests, and lead IC IPBS Reviews
- Manage budget performance planning: Develop IC Annual Report, quarterly scorecard, metrics, and lead IC performance reviews
- Ensure effective execution of the NIP budget: Prepare apportionment documents, reprogramming actions, and quarterly Congressional budget execution report; lead IC Execution Reviews
- Participate in the development of the Military Intelligence Program
- Lead IC financial auditability efforts: Coordinate Agency Financial Reports
- Develop IC financial management policy guidelines and standards
- Maintain the “IRIS” resource data base and ensure data integrity
- Support ODNI requirements for NIP resource information and collaborate with ODNI staff
- Liaise with the IC, OMB, DoD, and Congress on budget matters