What is the role of intelligence in the overall transformation process?
Transformation is driven in significant ways by intelligence. The intelligence community provides the advance warning needed to design defense capabilities and effects-based results that can overcome future threats, to arrange the structure, posture and deployment of U.S. forces and to inform the deliberate and contingency planning efforts of the combatant commanders for the employment of the force. Specifically for the defense intelligence community, what do you believe transformation should mean? For defense intelligence, it means developing, in coordination with the intelligence community as a whole, the means needed to provide exquisite intelligence to know our adversaries secrets without their knowing we know them. This is essential to avoiding surprise, especially in this era of widespread proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In addition, it means taking advantage of information management techniques and modern communications to provide military users with the informatio
