The power of All Is Far
Greater Than the Power of One

By definition, the Intelligence Community (IC) is most effective when its members work together. They regularly share information and analysis pertaining to matters of national importance. Many of them also take part in joint operations to advise our nation’s policymakers, which includes the President, the National Security Council, military commanders, and other officials in major departments and government agencies.

Our members also collaborate extensively to meet their own organizational missions and to satisfy overall IC objectives. This collaboration takes many forms, including electronic communication from desk to desk, shared information technology resources, ad-hoc joint working meetings, and set-term task forces composed of personnel from multiple agencies.

National Centers

Our National Centers are a more permanent collaborative structure of the IC created to address specific non-traditional threats. They are staffed, on a long-term basis, by personnel from organizations across the IC along with substantive operational personnel. In most cases our National Centers are physically located together in specially designated facilities.

External Collaboration

The IC often reaches out to industry and academic experts for assistance on joint projects. Utilizing strategic relationships with civilians who possess very senior expertise enable member agencies to address complex, broad scope issues such as technological advances, regional security dynamics, foreign military strategy and innovation, the global economy, and the long-term strategic environment. Through external collaboration of this sort, the IC provides senior U.S. policymakers broad vision, creative thinking, and a long-term perspective.