MASINT COMMITTEE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

• Document Type: CREST
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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2013
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: June 29, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN
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DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
Measurement and Signature Intelligence Committee
Washington, DC 20505
03,0,4 9-
AIX; 1988
ICS 6495-88
29 June 1988
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chairmen, MASINT Committee Subcommittees and Working Groups
SUBJECT: MASINT Committee Goals and Objectives
? 1. As an action resulting from the most recent Committee off-site
conference, the Committee has prepared a listing of goals that are presented
for your use in preparing the strategic plan that was also discussed at the
off-site conference. Note that there are six broad goals and thirteen
subgoals. The six principal goals should be reviewed as "umbrella" goals that
will set the general direction for the MASINT Community over the next five
years. The subgoals are slightly more focused, yet still within the
"umbrellas," and are intended to bound or limit our strategic plan only to the
extent that we can achieve measurable levels of success. Within these broad
guidelines you should take full advantage of your Community thinking to define
and develop specific objectives that are achievable. These attached goals, in
conjunction with the Strategic Planning Guide, should enable you to develop a
Strategic Plan in your respective area of responsibility
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2. The plan should be complete for discussion and integration at our next
off-site conference, which is scheduled for the 18th and 19th of October
1988. A draft re ort to the MASINT Committee Staff is requested by 15
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Attachments:
1. MASINT Committee Goals & Subgoals
2. Typical Objectives for Selected Goals
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GOALS
o Maintain and enhance the MASINT Committee role as the National focal point
for all current and planned MASINT operational activities
o Maintain and enhance the MASINT Committee's management support
infrastructure
o Establish and maintain a robust worldwide MASINT collection program,
including foreign collectors, responsive to the MASINT community
Maintain and enhance the DCI's Guidance for the National MASINT
Reconnaissance Program
o Maintain and enhance non-NEW MASINT activities and expand the scope of
non-NFIP programs participation in intelligence activities
o Maintain and enhance the Committee role as an advisor to the DCI and
senior national policymakers.
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TYPICAL OBJECTIVES FOR SELECTED GOALS
Note: The following are presented as examples only and are not intended to
restrict or otherwise impede any Working Group or Subcommittee from
developing a set of objectives that are more pertinent to their
interpretation of the basic goal. A couple of examples representing
more current, but probably lasting, issues are presented.
GOAL: -develop and maintain a National MASINT Requirements System (NMRS) as
the basic Intelligence Community guidance for MASINT collection,
processing, exploitation, and dissemination.
POSSIBLE OBJECTIVES:
--identify, prioritize, track and evaluate MASINT requirements
in a National MASINT Requirements System
--develop a plan for Intelligence Community review/study of
major/intelligence gaps that can be satisfied with MASINT sensors
--consider a central office for levying of day-to-day National
MASINT collection requirements
--consider the development of a procedure for the evaluation of
National MASINT tasking and collection
GOAL: -develop statements of research and development, collection, and
processing requirements for MASINT consistent with DCI objectives and
priorities. These statements will provide specific Intelligence
Community guidance for resource programming and mission planning and
reporting.
POSSIBLE OBJECTIVES:
--to provide for the Program Manager's integration of the
National MASINT effort into the planning, budgeting and tasking
of collection assets
--to cause the development and acquisition of National MASINT
collection assets
--track and support major MASINT programmatic issues during the
budget cycle, providing technical merit assessments and
prioritized evaluations
--modernize MASINT collection and processing to cope with the
changing intelligence threat
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