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Pentagon To Talk With DNI On Way Ahead For Managing COIN ISR

/ July 14, 2011 at 12:37 AM
Defense Department officials are expected to meet with the director of national intelligence by early fall to recommend the best way to bolster management of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for counterinsurgency operations, a source with knowledge of the discussions told Inside the Pentagon . A Defense Science Board task force recently recommended that DNI create a "national intelligence manager" for counterinsurgency (COIN) intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance operations (ISR). The DSB's report, dated February but released in May, focused on how...

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