INTELLIGENCE

Future Personnel Requirements

	FY09 PB	FY09 IG Request	FY10	FY11	FY12	FY13	FY14	FY15
Total FTEs	40	46	51	54	57	60	60	60
Annual Growth		+6	+5	+3	+3	+3	0	0
Cumulative Growth		+6	+11	+14	+17	+20	+20	+20
Military	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5

Risk Assessment:

• Without requested additional resources, the Deputy Inspector General for Intelligence (Intel) will not be able to increase our ability to perform planned audits and evaluations in key intelligence disciplines where coverage has been lacking and/or increase in team size to enable us to complete projects more timely and/or increase the scope of our reviews.  We have not been able to perform planned audits and evaluations in key intelligence disciplines such as Imagery Intelligence, Measurement and Signature Intelligence and Open Source Intelligence.  With requested increases, we will be able to increase our production from 15 to 24 reports.  These reports will provide invaluable recommendations for improving Defense intelligence, Special Access Programs, Nuclear Surety, and Research Technology Protection/Critical National Assets.

• Historically, about 60 percent of Intel efforts have been driven by congressional and management requests.  Congress has been particularly interested in various intelligence issues leading up to the war in Iraq.  Without additional resources we will not be able to address those congressional and DoD management requests and meet our responsibility to address key issues affecting the DoD intelligence community, including addressing the SECDEF priority of improving military intelligence capabilities.  Our oversight of nuclear surety issues, special access programs, and research technology protection/critical national assets will also be limited. 

Objectives:

• Increase capacity to address Defense intelligence priorities
• Increase coverage of key intelligence disciplines such as Imagery Intelligence, Measurement and Signature Intelligence, Open Source Intelligence, and Nuclear Surety
• Increase auditing of intelligence acquisitions and contracts 
• Replace GWOT hires with core mission hires

Return on Investment:

• Improved effectiveness and efficiency of DoD intelligence, nuclear, and Special Access Programs, to include coverage of GWOT issues, ways to improve business operations, compliance with statute & regulations, and ways to improve national security

Summary of Future Requirements:

Additional resources are needed in order for the Office of the Deputy Inspector General for Intelligence to effectively accomplish its mission and oversee the breadth and depth of Defense intelligence, Special Access Programs, and nuclear surety issues.  Additional resources will increase our ability to perform planned audits and evaluations in key intelligence disciplines where coverage has been lacking and allow for an increase in team size to enable us to complete projects more timely and/or increase the scope of our reviews of key national security, nuclear, special access programs and intelligence issues, including intelligence acquisition programs, research technology protection and personnel security issues.  

Although our limited resources have been applied to key intelligence issues, historically, about 60 percent of our report production has been reactive rather than proactive based on requests from DoD management and Congress.  These requests divert resources to these high priority efforts thereby diminishing our capacity to provide timely and comprehensive oversight of the other mission areas. As a result, we have not been able to perform planned audits and evaluations in key intelligence disciplines such as Imagery Intelligence, Measurement and Signature Intelligence and Open Source Intelligence.  In addition, the following are key areas where oversight has been reduced:

• National Reconnaissance Office activities, especially major acquisitions
• National Security Agency Operations Security and Information Security Programs
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency programs
• National Intelligence Program/Military Intelligence Program funding
• Service Intelligence Component activities
• Operations and Support Special Access Programs
• DoD Counterintelligence Field Activity Programs
• Research Technology Protection/Critical National Assets
• Defense Security Service issues, especially well-documented personnel security deficiencies

To allow us to better meet these requirements, the following additional resources are required:

• The current staffing level of 48 reflects recent increases in end strength approved by the Inspector General, including reemployed annuitants for GWOT projects.  Our FY 2010 request for 51 civilian FTE’s reflects this sustained level of staffing assuming replacing our GWOT hires with core mission hires and an increase of 3 FTE’s to provide additional resources for intelligence oversight reviews.

• An additional request for 3 FTE’s each in FY’s 2011 through 2013, are needed to increase our capacity and capability to perform our mission and address key Defense intelligence priorities.  These additional resources will enable us to perform more projects and issue more reports.  As of January 2008, we had 16 ongoing projects with an available staff of 30 auditors and evaluators.  Using this ratio, we project that these additional resources will result in 1 to 2 more reports each year.