Part I: What Do We Need to Know, and How?

which enables direct access to private sector experts whenever needed. This system must be firmly grounded on a foundation of complete global geo-spatial data at the 1:50,000 level, and must provide the policymaker with both strategic generalizations and a full range of multi-dimensional assessments, which include a full understanding of the cultural, technological, and geographic aspects of a potential or on-going conflict. Organizationally, this system must fully integrate the information available to civilian, military, and law enforcement authorities as well as business leaders; and it must offer a seamless architecture which transitions easily from domestic to international locations under conditions of both peace and war. Above all, it must allow the policymaker to deal with emerging threats on a "come as you are" basis, and to harness private sector expertise in real-time.
Unclassified Intelligence. Intelligence is information, which has been discovered, discriminated, distilled, and disseminated in a form tailored to the needs of a specific policymaker at a specific time and place.
Intelligence is most often not classified, and its utility in fact decreases dramatically with every increase in its level of classification. In today's global environment, intelligence which can be shared and which does not compromise the political standing of the sponsors of the intelligence by relying on covert means, is critical.
TECHNOLOGY IDEA: Require every "intelligence" report to offer varying degrees of classification beginning with unclassified, to clearly mark all paragraphs with their inherent level of classification, to footnote primary and secondary customers and their telephone numbers, and to specify in detail the open sources and experts as well as the classified sources which were drawn upon to create the report.
Provide consumers with an electronic means of documenting whether they actually read the report, and an electronic means of grading the report (at its various levels) in real time.

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