Introduction
OSINT is vital to the Intelligence Community’s Mission. OSINT both enables other intelligence collection disciplines and delivers unique intelligence value of its own, allowing the IC to more efficiently and effectively leverage its exquisite collection capabilities. As the open source environment continues to expand and evolve at breakneck speed, the ability to extract actionable insights from vast amounts of open source data will only increase in importance.
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning present significant opportunities to capitalize on the value of OSINT. At the same time, the IC must be attuned to the risks in the open source domain, including the provenance and validity of information it obtains. To maintain an intelligence advantage in the open source environment, we must embrace new technologies and tradecraft to collect and evaluate open source data. At the same time, the IC must reimagine its relationships with industry and academia to leverage cutting-edge capabilities being developed and applied in the private sector. Because of the unclassified nature of open source information, OSINT presents a unique opportunity among collection disciplines to explore new partnership models to speed the adoption of new tools and tradecraft.
For the IC to surpass nation-state competitors that are making significant investments in the open source domain, we must build an integrated and agile OSINT community that can rapidly innovate as the open source environment evolves. The IC OSINT Strategy provides the framework for integrating OSINT more fully into IC workflows, tradecraft, and all-source analysis, while ensuring appropriate protections for privacy and civil liberties. To advance the OSINT discipline, the IC will streamline data acquisition, develop innovative technologies to collect and derive insight from open source data, strengthen the coordination of open source collection activities across the community, update and standardize OSINT tradecraft, and develop a highly skilled OSINT workforce. Through these efforts, we will work together to leverage the full power of OSINT to support IC analysts and operators and ensure the IC is poised to provide decision advantage for warfighters and national security policymakers.
Strategic Focus Areas
Goal: Coordinate Open Source Data Acquisition and Expand Data Sharing
Coordinate the acquisition of open source data to avoid redundancy and expand data sharing, as appropriate, to enable mission and ensure the most efficient use of IC resources.
All members of the IC should be able to discover IC-acquired open source data and community OSINT reporting, while adhering to security and classification requirements. Expanding the accessibility of Publicly Available Information (PAI) and Commercially Available Information (CAI) will maximize the return on IC investment and increase the value of open source data and tools across all IC missions.
To ensure the most efficient acquisition models and broadest possible sharing of data across the community, OSINT leaders will partner with IC Data Officers and others to coordinate the distributed acquisition of PAI and CAI, with consideration for its ethical and appropriate use, consistent with law and policy. These processes will consider the value and necessity of the data for IC mission uses, as well as the equities of multi-mission departments and agencies when acquiring data for both intelligence and non-intelligence purposes. The IC will regularly review usage metrics and mission impact for all data purchases to ensure the best use of IC resources.
In accordance with the Director of National Intelligence’s (DNI) direction, the IC will implement the CAI Framework and track PAI and CAI in a centralized, multi-domain data catalog to enhance transparency. The OSINT community will leverage ongoing efforts to enhance data management across the IC through the development of interoperability and data tagging standards to ensure data reaches mission users in a timely and usable manner. In addition, the IC will establish common OSINT platforms to facilitate access to shared data and tools, and we will identify and implement a pathway to deliver IC OSINT products to the broader U.S. Government.
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