Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines releases strategy urging sharper focus on China, Russia
Avril Haines outlines six goals for the 18 government agencies engaged in intelligence collection and analysis.
Russia, in the wake of its invasion of neighboring Ukraine, poses the most immediate regional threat in Europe to U.S. interests, “but lacks the across-the-spectrum capabilities” ofReflecting past shortcomings and a lack of overall reform within the bureaucratic intelligence system, the strategy outlines areas for improving the nation’s spying bureaucracy.
Intelligence agencies also will invest in new methods of intelligence collection, along with cultivating new sources of intelligence and seeking to work closer with U.S. allies and partners and with private sector groups. The CIA and other intelligence services also will seek to improve capabilities against strategic competitors through “greater interoperability” among various geographic and functional intelligence disciplines.
The White House under President Biden created the Gender Policy Council, tasked with promoting gender equity and equality in both domestic and foreign policy. Other goals listed in the new strategy include improving intelligence contracting and procurement and broadening intelligence partnerships with additional alliances like the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing group linking the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
“Protecting the intelligence community and the nation’s critical infrastructure from complex threats requires a deeper understanding of the implications of destabilizing trends, and improved early warning to improve the nation’s recovery and response,” the report says.The strategy contains little emphasis on counterintelligence — the thwarting of foreign spy efforts.
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