Strategic Integration Directorate (SI) 
Strategic Integration (SI) Directorate 

Three Integrated Lines of Effort 

• Plans and Exercises – Enables DTRA’s capabilities to address combat support needs within the current 

operating environment; and enhance Agency's mission readiness 

• Strategic Trends and Effects – Provides insights into effects DTRA may be able to generate against 

emerging threats; and, assesses the collective effects of DTRA Operations, Activities and Investments (OAIs) 

against the highest-priority threats and risks to national security objectives 

• Comptroller – Strategic resourcing of OAIs to meet the demand signals of the warfighter within a dynamic 

fiscal and threat environment 

The Strategic Integration Directorate shapes DTRA’s response to the challenges and priorities set forth in the 

National Defense Strategy, focusing the Agency’s operations, activities and investments in a manner that 

maximizes their cumulative effect in support of our warfighting customers. 

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Plans and Exercises Department 

(PLEX) Overview (SI-PL) 

• Key Mission Elements: 

• Develop and support joint Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) 

mission strategy, plans, policy and doctrine 

• Provide CCMDs with adaptive planning support to counter and deter WMD 

threats 

• Manage the Agency’s requirement process to identify, analyze, adjudicate, 

and document requirements 

• Conduct Opportunity Analysis (OA) in support of CCMD strategic issues & 

objectives, and identify, develop & sequence cross-government and partner 

OAIs 

• Enable the Agency’s Strategic Resourcing Process to identify Risk-Mediated 

Objectives and perform Gap Analysis Prioritization analysis to inform a 

Strategic alignment of the Agency’s Strategic programs and activities 

• Deploy fully integrated planning teams ISO contingency operations and 

exercises 

• Provide CWMD training and education to both US and Partner organizations 

• Develop, manage and execute DTRA’s Joint Training Program (JTP)

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Strategic Trends and Effects Department 

(STED) Overview (SI-ST) 

• Key Mission Elements: 

• Generate timely, credible, actionable insights into emerging threats within 

DTRA’s mission space

• Enable and guide warfighter understanding of the range of military 

operations in an era of Great Power Competition (GPC) 

• Provide Agency-leadership with a holistic assessment of progress toward 

achieving Agency objectives and provide recommendations to inform 

planning, execution, resource allocation, and measures of effectiveness 

• Design and execute table-top exercises to support decision making on future 

threat topics and battlespace requirements 

• Conduct workshops and symposia to inform the Agency and warfighter of 

the changing nature of the threat environment 

• Fund research and multi-national strategic dialogues that are of direct 

relevance to the Agency and the warfighter, focusing on the production of 

actionable, and operationally relevant recommendations for Agency senior 

leaders 

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Comptroller 

• Key Mission Elements: 

• Program and Budget 

• Financial Operations 

• Finance and Accounting 

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Public Affairs and External Communications 

• Key Mission Elements: 

• Agency Messaging and Branding 

• Web Design / Content Management 

• Video Production 

• Social Media Management 

• Photography Support