Interagency Unity of Effort. The Strategic Interagency Coordination Center (STRIACC)
Abstract
Transnational terrorism, as well as other forms of international crime, affects domestic, regional, and global stability. The magnitude, geographical dispersion, and unknown relationships between various transnational threats are such that no one department, agency, or staff has the sufficient resources or expertise to comprehend and respond to all requirements. As our challenges are expanding in size and scope, so too, must our interagency processes be flexible, adaptive, and efficient. To that end, we must develop a system that provides responsive interagency intelligence and information to the appropriate federal departments and agencies. The system must be standardized and enforceable within the federal bureaucracy so as to enhance unity of effort, yet must never impinge on the authority of elected or appointed officials. A responsive interagency system that is proficient in both deliberate and crisis action planning is the only method of leveraging all appropriate government assets necessary to engage the full depth and breadth of our national security threats. The purpose of this research paper, then, is to provide an analysis of the interagency process at the strategic level-from the origins of its inefficiencies to recommendations that directly impact systemic faults. Through historical analysis, this paper will demonstrate that the problems residing within the U.S. federal interagency system are not new, but rather, consistent throughout the time frame examined. Consequently, recommendations applied to interagency inefficiencies must take into account many of the historical issues that have set the conditions for interagency coordination failures in the past. In the end, interagency coordination is about people, organizations, and processes. And only by analyzing interagency problems in the combined context of people, organizations, and processes can we begin to understand the depth and synthesis of the remedies required.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA477015
Entities
People
- Joseph E. Maher Jr.
Organizations
- Air War College