[CTS INPUT TO DCI'S ANNUAL REPORT REFLECTING RECENT CTS ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE]

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00596A000300010001-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 21, 1978
• Content Type: REPORT

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I. A. 4. Collection ..
a. Status of NITC ,
Using the Community reorganization which created a National
Intelligence Tasking Center (NITC) discussed at length in last year's report
and recently approved on 26 September 1978, we have proceeded to implement this
concept for interdisciplinary collection tasking under the management of the
Deputy to the DCI for Collection Tasking.
Quite naturally, much of the year has been devoted to organizational
considerations. Since the effectiveness of an organization will ultimately be
limited by the quality of its personnel, much attention has been given to iden-
tifying and filling the key management positions with individuals whose reputa-
tions for objectivity and achievement in the Intelligence Community are attested.
With these key positions now filled, the Collection Tasking Staff has worked to
set specific objectives which are related to the major collection tasking issues
faced by the Community. In the process of formulating these objectives, special
emphasis has been placed on developing viable interactions with production and
assessment elements in the Community and with the intelligence consumers. Col-
lection needs and their priorities are being identified by means of such manage-
ment tools as the Current U.S. Foreign Intelligence Requirements Categories and
Priorities (DCID 1/2).
The Deputy to the DCI for Collection Tasking is responsible for
five basic functions of which three--the HUMINT, SIGINT, and PflOTINT collection
Committees--were ongoing at the time of the Community reorganization. For this
reason, the most bold and imaginative thinking has been required for the two
new functions which are. the National Intelligence Tasking Officer (NITO) approach
and thetTasking Architecture Office (TAO) _ __ ~--
As anticipated in last year's report, the NITC~has adopted a
National Intelligence Tasking Officer (NITO) approach to address problem-oriented
collection by country, region, and topic.. The first four NITOs selected are
responsible respectively for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; for the PRC
and Far East; for Western Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Near East;~and for
Indications and Warning and Crisis Management. Supported by Associate NITOs
with expert knowledge of particular regions or subject areas, and by specialists
with long experience of individual collection systems, they have already begun
developing collection strategies on priority issues included in the list of
National Intelligence Topics approved this year by the PRC (I) or scheduled far
National Estimates. At the same time, they provide,for the first time,-a perm-
anent mechanism for preparation of ad-hoc collection strategies as these are
required by events which are either unanticipated or threaten to assume, crisis
proportions.
The Tasking Architecture Office (TAO) will address problem-oriented ~-
collection from a system perspective. While both NITO and TAO will approach
collection problems in an interdisciplinary way, the Architecture Office will
focus on the future, rather than the current, system. Thus these two missions
will perform Community-level collection tasking management by means of comple-
mentary roles, i.e., NITO devising optimum current tasking plans using existing
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operational collection systems and TAO stressing substantive system changes
which should occur to respond to projected tasking needs. TAO will formulate
these options for change by initially developing measures of system utility in
customer product terms. Such measures are not available today, in part because
uniform interdisciplinary measures of collection tasking performance are lack-
ing. These measures, along with specific systems evaluation inputs from else-
where in the Community, will be merged with non-technical policy constraints in
formulating this collection tasking architecture.
b. Collection Committees
? The Deputy to the DCI for Collection Tasking has responsibility
for tasking of the three collection disciplines--PHOTINT, SIGINT, and HUMINT--
and employs?_ the existing DCI Committee system to address and resolve issues
arising within those disciplines.
SIGINT Committee
During 197.8, the DCI SIGINT Committee continued to fulfill
its responsibilities as delineated in DCID 6/1. During this past year, the
review, justification, validation and prioritization of all COMINT requirements
was completed. These requirements constitute the initial segment of the
National SIGINT Requirements List and have .been levied on NSA. A similar pro-
cess involving all FLINT and FIS requirements is underway. The SIGINT Committee
also prepared and obtained DCI approval of guidance for the National Reconnais-
sance Program for the FY 1980-84 time frame. This guidance, which has been
provided to the D/NRO, D/NSA, and D/DIA, provides the basis against which the
program managers design, program, and build future SIGINT satellite collection/
processing systems. As a separate endeavor, the SIGINT Committee was tasked by~
the CFI to develop FLINT requirements for the 1984-1994 decade. This study has
been completed and the requirements were provided to the D/NRO to serve as the
basis for the NRO's FLINT System Configuration Study. A similar study of IR
requirements for the post-1984 time frame is currently underway.
The subject of compartmentation and security was also at the
forefront of the Committee deliberations this past year. An extensive review
and rewrite of the DC?I Communicati_oAS Intelligence Security Regulations is being
conducted. The results of this effort should be a more easily understandable 25X1
set. of regulations governing the control and dissemination of-COMINT.
Throughout 1978, special SIGINT collection sites located
worldwide were of mayor concern to the Intelligence Community. The SIGINT
Committee conducted numerous evaluations of-the value of reporting from indi-
vidual sites:and-developed-,recommendations on the need to-establish=permanent 25X1
collection sites in several countries.
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