Intelligence After Next: Recommendations for Creating Cross-Agency Enterprise Design Specifications

To achieve mission decision advantage, the Intelligence Community must eliminate structural and cultural barriers to integration. We propose a tailorable framework for the collaborative development of enterprise integration design specifications, ensuring systems and capabilities can seamlessly interoperate across the broader enterprise. In outlining this new approach, we highlight key roles and responsibilities, consider key requirements, and propose a cross-agency governance structure. To develop cross-agency or cross-organization capabilities, we recommend establishing a governance structure that engages senior leadership, leveraging strategic guidance as constraints and generating CONOPs and reference architecture as needed.