ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines key tasking, coordination, and integration challenges intelligence communities (IC) leaders will be confronted with as the security environment becomes increasingly more complex. The end result on the tasking, coordination, and integration front has been more mixed. The Director of National Intelligence by political and bureaucratic design could not be entirely a single point of authority to ensure a whole of IC tasking and coordination approach could be achieved across the community. The final externally driven factor impacting on effective tasking and coordination is the politicisation of intelligence. In addition to how IC leaders have developed organisational structures such as fusion centres for better tasking and coordination of intelligence, a big factor in their proliferation since 9/11 has been to provide an integrated or fused intelligence picture for decision-makers. The ability of IC leaders to oversee the development of better risk and threat methodologies also has an impact on effective tasking and coordination across ‘Five Eyes’ ICs.
