This capability provides many advantages for the warfighter, national security policymakers, homeland security personnel, and IC collaborators by precisely locating activities and objects, assessing and discerning the meaning of events, and providing context for decision makers. GEOINT can also create a Common Operational Picture (COP) of a specific area by effectively using multiple and advanced sensors, multiple types of data and information (including operations, planning, logistics, etc), as well as multiple intelligence disciplines (INTs) to present a comprehensive visual depiction. Now consider how this discussion applies to GEOINT.

Are there alternative discourses that might define the role and relationships of policy makers and the intelligence community differently?.

What are the agendas of the players, what are the power relationships up, down, and horizontally between the players and the policy makers? What tensions do these relationships cause?

how you can apply the critical approaches from Lesson 2 to the discussion of the role of policy makers and their relationship with the intelligence community.

given the author's background and focus on government, is his analysis applicable and appropriate to other intelligence applications in other communities such as disaster preparedness (FEMA, the American Red Cross, etc), international humanitarian aid and disaster response (UN, International Federation of the Red Cross, other NGOs), the business community, etc.?.

A clear understanding of the client's requirements (which may change over time) is essential to the successful intelligence enterprise.Īs you read Lowenthal's chapter 9 that discusses 'The Role of the Policy Maker,' do some critical thinking and ask yourself: To put this another way, the needs of the client policy maker drive the mission and activities of the geospatial intelligence professional.

Note also the problems that can arise when the 'understood' needs of policy makers are unclear or contentious. Remember that according to Lowenthal, 'Intelligence refers to information that meets the stated or understood needs of policy makers and has been collected, processed, and narrowed to meet those needs.' The needs of policy makers drive intelligence priorities, which will drive the intelligence process, and, very importantly, drive resource allocation. Lowenthal disagrees, and that is why he adds two stages to the process. Lowenthal notes that most authors and intelligence experts do not consider the policy maker to be part of the intelligence process.

Geo 5 policy ppt