INTRODUCTION

It is imperative that information technology provide intelligence professionals, wherever they are,
with the ability to efficiently and effectively discover, access, and exploit data. The Intelligence
Community Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE) was designed to support and enable
mission integration, and to provide mechanisms to answer tough intelligence questions.
Additionally, the IC ITE must provide data protection and offer innovative methods for organizing
and managing intelligence information such that authorized analysts and collectors are able to
share and report data critical to the intelligence mission, and to decision makers for addressing
national security issues.

The IC ITE represents a strategic shift from agency-centric information technology (IT) to a
common enterprise platform where the Intelligence Community (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 of 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 mall; an enterprise management capability; identification, authentication, and
authorization capabilities; network requirements and engineering services; and a security
coordination service.

The Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer (IC ClO) is accountable for overall
formulation, management, and oversight of the IC ITE. The IC ITE is the enabling foundation for
intelligence missions worldwide and furthers the goals of intelligence integration.

This IC ITE Strategy updates and replaces the IC ITE Strategy 2012-2017, reflecting the progress
made to date. It adheres to the Guiding Principles for Implementing and Operating in a Common

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STRATEGIC 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.

Promote trusted intelligence collaboration through risk-managed information sharing and
safeguarding solutions. Cleared individuals who have a mission need for critical information must
be able to discover and retrieve it securely without organizational boundaries or technical hurdles.
The IC must work together to improve enterprise security services and implement security-related
policies that will facilitate access and control while protecting systems, data, and people.

The security of the enterprise requires a resilient, well documented, and scalable foundation
comprising shared best practices, common standards, innovative technologies, and authoritative
decisions.

OBJECTIVES

Secure Information Infrastructure

Coordinate auditing, monitoring, detection, and protection capabilities to prevent unauthorized
activity and provide decision makers insight into the security status of IC ITE.

Information Assurance

Employ seamless, secure enterprise solutions for trusted collaboration that are compliant with
legal and oversight requirements, and instill confidence in the IC ITE's information availability,
safeguarding, security, and protection of privacy and civil liberties.

Records Management

Support electronic records management frameworks where necessary to better enable accountability
and compliance with Federal regulations throughout the records lifecycle.

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VISION:
An Integrated Intelligence Enterprise

MISSION:
To enable intelligence collection, analysis, and sharing through
innovative, robust, and secure IT capabilities

OPERATING PRINCIPLES:

Mission First
Make decisions based on intelligence mission needs.

Lead
Provide strategic leadership across the IC.

Partner
Achieve unity of effort through teamwork, collaboration,
and transparency.

Innovate
Leverage technology to increase effectiveness and
drive efficiency.

Achieve
Deliver an integrated, secure enterprise to satisfy the
highest mission priorities.

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INTRODUCTION continued

Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise. It aligns with the 2014 National
Intelligence Strategy (NIS), focusing on enabling greater intelligence integration by partnering
across the IC to support NIS information sharing and safeguarding objectives that direct the IC to:

* Consolidate existing and future information technology requirements into an effective and
efficient IC information technology infrastructure to enable greater IC integration,
information sharing, and safeguarding;

« Provide the IC workforce with discovery and access to information based on mission need
to deliver timely, tailored, and actionable information;

* Integrate enterprise-wide information, as appropriate, to enhance discovery, improve
correlation, and enable advanced analytics consistent with protection of privacy
and civil liberties;

* Strengthen and synchronize security and data protection standards for new and existing
intelligence information systems based on policy-driven interoperable approaches and
attribute-based access to provide a trusted and secure IC-wide information environment;

* Promote a culture that embodies, supports, and furthers responsible information sharing
respectful of civil liberties and privacy.

This IC ITE Strategy establishes a vision for IC efforts that will enable greater intelligence
integration and collaboration by partnering across the IC to directly support information sharing
and safeguarding objectives, and indirectly support the other NIS mission and enterprise
objectives. These NIS objectives, along with Executive Branch directives, challenge the IC to

enhance, integrate, and leverage IC capabilities to enable discovery, access, retrieval, retention,
and safeguarding of information.

The potential contributions of the IC ITE to achieving intelligence mission success cannot be
overstated; the ultimate value of IC ITE is dependent on our collaborative efforts to move this
Community forward toward a common, secure, and integrated IC IT enterprise.

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Enhance Intelligence Integration

Promote the Intelligence Community’s ability to integrate and unify intelligence
activities by fully leveraging IC ITE.

Intelligence integration is the IC’s highest priority. Mission success depends on the right
people getting the right information at the right time. Maximizing the use of the IC ITE will
transform agency-centric information technology to a common enterprise platform where the
IC can easily and securely share information and capabilities across the Community. The
IC ITE is designed to provide the IC workforce with the ability to discover, access, and
collaborate on information based on mission need to deliver timely, tailored, and
actionable intelligence.

OBJECTIVES

Integrating Data

Purposely optimize the IC-wide use of data by integrating mission-focused capabilities,
improving access, discovery, and exploitation of intelligence information to maximize
mission value provided to the Community.

Integrating Technology

Advance standards-based, interoperable, and innovative IC ITE capabilities to shift from
agency-centric capabilities to common, secure enterprise services that support the
IC mission.

Integrating People

Enable optimum participation through the use of technology to maximize user
adoption of IC ITE, enhancing our trusted relationships, and increasing sharing,
collaboration, and integration of the IC, thereby accelerating intelligence integration.

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WAY AHEAD FOR STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION

IC ITE Implementation is an evolving process of consolidating and adopting Community
capabilities. |C elements designated by the DNI as Service Providers will provide services of
common concern guided by IC policy, the IC ITE Strategy, and their business plans. IC components
will implement and use IC ITE services in accordance with applicable legal and policy
requirements, including those pertaining to the protection of privacy and civil liberties.

The execution of the IC ITE Strategy and its objectives will require consistent governance and
collaborative assessment of progress. IC elements will continue to provide information through
the IC ITE governance structure and ODNI processes, illustrating progress against the goals and
objectives. The IC CIO will take the lead, supported by IC elements providing the information
necessary to evaluate progress, inform decision making, and implement the IC ITE Strategy.

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.

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STRATEGIC 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.

A strategic shift is under way, transforming multiple agency-centric enterprises to an IC
enterprise that will enable delivery of cost-effective, demand-driven shared services and
capabilities. This shift must be nurtured until the IC ITE business model matures into an
operation that maximizes the benefit of the IT enterprise to the IC.

OBJECTIVES

Enhanced Business Operations

Cultivate effective business practices, controls, and oversight for shared services across
the IC, and employ performance-based decision making to foster continuous improvement
and customer satisfaction.

Mature IC ITE Business Model

Implement standardized business processes across IC ITE services that build upon the
business model framework to achieve customer-centric goals of transparency and
efficiency by delivering enterprise IT services that are timely, dependable, and cost effective.

Culture of Shared Capabilities

Recognize and reward the adoption of shared capabilities that enhance mission
requirements and the delivery of efficient and effective shared services.

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STRATEGIC GOALS

Enhance Intelligence Integration

Promote the Intelligence Community’s ability to integrate
and unify intelligence activities by fully leveraging IC ITE.

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.

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.

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MESSAGE FROM THE IC CIO

In 2012, the Director of National Intelligence and leaders across the IC agreed to initiate a change
to the IC’s Information Technology operating model and move to a common enterprise architecture:
the IC IT Enterprise (IC ITE). In doing so, we established a new vision for how the IC will leverage
modern information technology concepts to enable greater IC integration, improve information
sharing and safeguarding, and reduce costs.

We have made great strides since that initial agreement: the IC Desktop Environment (DTE) is
operational, Community applications are in the Apps Mall, and data is in the IC Cloud. These user
facing capabilities, along with the many behind the scenes services, are a testament to the hard
work and dedication of Community elements to increase our intelligence integration. Given our
collective progress, we felt it was time to evolve our current set of IC ITE Goals and Objectives.
While we maintained alignment to our foundational IC ITE strategy, the updated objectives are
focused on the three primary goals of IC ITE: increased intelligence integration, enhanced IT
safeguards, and greater efficiencies.

To achieve these goals, IC agencies will need to transition to IC ITE services, capitalize on the
opportunities they present, and begin to reduce their own legacy IT infrastructure. We see this
beginning to happen, and it will take our collective effort to continue to foster the environment
where IC ITE capabilities can continue to evolve and improve to meet an ever widening range of
IC needs.

The ability to think in these terms would not have been possible even a year ago. IC components
have now begun to lead the way, with ODNI guidance and encouragement. | am looking forward
to the months and years of continued progress that lie ahead. While we have achieved a great
deal in a short amount of time, our work is not done yet. This rapid pace must continue as we seek
to provide missions with the capabilities needed to effectively defend against national security
threats. IC ITE is the way of the future, and the future is now.

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Al Tarasiuk
Intelligence Community Chief Information Officer
Assistant Director of National Intelligence

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MESSAGE FROM THE DNI

Today, the Intelligence Community faces a more diverse set of challenges than ever before.
Accordingly, we must think differently about how we provide our customers with the intelligence
necessary to make the best informed decisions. IC ITE is providing that different way of thinking
and is providing a more effective, efficient way of conducting our business.

I've been talking about IC ITE as a “Big Idea” for how the IC will work within an ever-changing
national security environment. It will help us continue to lead the way, allowing us to increase
intelligence integration, enhance IT safeguards, and drive efficiencies. Achieving these goals is
one of my top priorities.

This updated IC ITE Strategy reflects the maturation from a concept on a whiteboard, to a unifying,
Community-wide strategy with a series of implementation plans. With a solid foundation in place,
we will now shift our focus towards providing this new architecture to users across the Intelligence
Community. With the cohesive community focused on implementation, we are seeing our “Big
Idea” quickly becoming reality.

The IC ClO, in cooperation with Community Senior Leadership, has successfully led us to the
point where we can now see the full potential of the IC ITE. | am excited about where we are and
where we are going. Greater intelligence integration, better IT safeguards, and less redundancy
will provide us with the capabilities necessary to keep pace with the needs of our intelligence
mission. That is really what IC ITE is all about — giving our mission partners, warfighters, and
decision makers the most accurate and timely information they need to keep the nation secure.
There is no greater endeavor.

| appreciate your continued support for this crucial initiative, which | believe will literally
revolutionize our capabilities.

All the best,

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James R. Clapper
Director of National Intelligence

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