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The Office of Transnational Issues
The Office of Transnational Issues applies unique functional
expertise to assess existing and emerging threats to US national security and
provides the most senior US policymakers, military planners, and law enforcement
with analysis, warning, and crisis support. OTI produces current intelligence
products as well as long-range analysis that provide strategic context and
over-the-horizon perspective.
Drawing on a broad range of experts, OTI’s analysis addresses energy and
economic security, illicit financial activities, societal conflicts,
humanitarian crises, global health, and the strategic military and global
information environment:
- OTI analysts with expertise in international energy, trade, and finance
support senior officials responding to developments that could affect US energy
security, the stability of international financial markets, and downturns in the
economies of countries of concern.
- The Office’s illicit finance analysts draw on money laundering, corruption,
and financial network expertise to support policy and law enforcement officials
in their efforts to identify, disrupt, and prevent illicit financial
transactions that threaten US security.
- OTI assessments on refugee flows, food security, and border tensions
contribute to US forecasts of international aid requirements, support US and
multilateral peacekeeping operations, and identify prospects for instability in
potential trouble spots.
- OTI’s health experts analyze health threats abroad, such as pandemics, that
could impact the United States and its interests.
- OTI’s military analysis provides US policymakers and military commanders
with a better understanding of current and future battlefield threats and
opportunities, assessing weapons assimilation, logistics, illicit arms
transfers, denial and deception, and insurgency as well as providing the Agency
with a premier war gaming capability.
- OTI’s analysis of foreign efforts to manipulate US perceptions helps US
policymakers understand the global information environment and how views of the
United State are formed.
- OTI analysts use a range of methodological techniques and outside experts to
analyze complex intelligence questions related to current policy issues and
long-range concerns about the strategic security environment.
Posted: May 06, 2007 03:05 PM
Last Updated: Jul 16, 2008 06:48 AM
Last Reviewed: May 06, 2007 03:05 PM