Office of the Director of National Intelligence Releases Intelligence Community Data Strategy

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its latest Intelligence Community (IC) Data Strategy, focusing on integration, interoperability and artificial intelligence-readiness for 2023-2025. 

Published July 18, the strategy lays out focuses and actions for IC elements to best tackle the global security environment. Its strategic focus areas are performative end-to-end data management, data interoperability, analytics at speed and scale, partnerships for digital and data innovation, and transformations into data-driven workplaces.

“Data, and our ability to manage it properly, is fundamental to our work,” Avril Haines, director of national intelligence, stated in the strategy report. “In the next decade, we will be pushed even further and faster by expected and unexpected evolutions in technology, particularly of the internet and artificial intelligence. The IC Data Strategy will allow us to harness and accelerate our efforts in mutually reinforcing ways.” 

Since the first data strategy published in 2017, the challenges and processes surrounding technology and global integration have continued to change. The ODNI has focused on managing the complex landscape and furthering IC integration in the present and future. 

“Everything starts with the data,” Stacey Dixon, principal deputy director of national intelligence, said. “The IC Data Strategy drives deliberate planning to accelerate the delivery of relevant data to those that need it, when they need it, both now and in the future.”