The Acquisition, Procurement & Facilities organization leads the Intelligence Community’s efforts to enhance the returns on investments in technology and facilities. Our mission is to deliver innovative, technology-based capabilities that solve intelligence challenges today and in the future. AP&F takes a portfolio approach to acquire capabilities now, to coordinate those that will come next, and to sponsor research that will lead to new capabilities after next.
In particular AP&F’s activities:
- Provide continuous oversight of selected NIP acquisitions and independently assess the status of IC acquisitions and associated IC acquisition processes.
- Enable a Community-wide perspective to be incorporated throughout the acquisition cycle and effectively integrate IC acquisition and procurement initiatives to respond to the highest priority needs and missions.
- Champion S&T strategies and policies, inform future IC R&D investments that deliver mission superiority, and seek out the intersections between IC mission needs and the capabilities offered by emerging S&T.
- Coordinate IC facilities activities to address and resolve priority and strategic facility issues, and to optimize investment decisions.
- Invest across four scientific thrust areas: Anticipatory Intelligence, Analysis, Collections and Operations.
Policy and Strategy covers five divisions: Information Sharing ans Safeguarding (ISSE), Policy, Strategy, Controlled Access Program Management Division (CAP MD), and Special Programs. P&S develops unified IC policies and strategic plans, and frames the Intelligence Community's information sharing process.
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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
Mission and Vision
Promote an integrated Intelligence Enterprise by developing the National Intelligence Strategy, evaluating the Intelligence Community’s strategic posture and progress, and enabling and integrating successful strategic planning and execution efforts.
Key Principles
- Promote and encourage Community-wide long-range perspective
- Support and enable the success of others
- Facilitate dialog across the IC on strategic direction and progress
- Promote transparency in communications internally and externally
- Our unique “value-added” attribute: providing the DNI and the IC with comprehensive (all missions, all functions, all organizations) strategic, long-range direction
Key Tasks
- Lead IC Strategy Development – Promote a unified Intelligence Enterprise through development of the National Intelligence Strategy
- Integrate Strategic Direction – Provide and support development and implementation of IC-wide strategy assessments and strategic plans across all functions and all organizations.
- Evaluate IC Strategic Progress – Enable IC implementation, strategy and performance assessment
- Promote IC Innovation – Conduct the annual Galileo Awards program to find bold, innovative ideas and creative solutions to our nation’s intelligence challenges
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