Top to Bottom and End to End. Improving the National Security Agency's Strategic Decision Processes

Abstract

The National Security Agency (NSA) is a Department of Defense (DoD) agency and by nature of its missions and responsibilities is also part of the larger Intelligence Community (IC). The span of the NSA's missions and responsibilities oblige it to report to both the DoD and the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) with regard to resources and mission performance. As a result of the necessity of reporting to the two organizations, the NSA must submit its plans and resource allocation decisions through both the DoD Program Object Memorandum (POM) and the IC Intelligence Program Objective Memorandum (IPOM). Therefore, the NSA participates in the decisionmaking processes in DoD and the IC. Within DoD, the process is called the Planning, Performance, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA433055

Entities

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  • John Y. Schrader
  • Leslie Lewis
  • Roger A. Brown

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  • RAND Corporation

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  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

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