One idea is a joint committee of House and Senate members to deal with intelligence; another is to consolidate all intelligence oversight into one intelligence committee in each chamber that would both approve funding and dole out the money.Do these reforms stand much chance of being adopted?
The North set up the bureau in 2009, consolidating several intelligence agencies to streamline operations aimed at the South.
The D.C.I. has, as I understand it, enhanced authority after 1997, and that permits him to consolidate the national intelligence budget, to make some trade-offs, but given the overwhelming weight of the Defense Department in the process, that is of limited value...
He will leave behind a long list of achievements, from helping to consolidate the nation's intelligence gathering services in a way that appears to make it more difficult to gather intelligence, to threatening to filibuster the health care reform act until it had been watered down to suit his own high principles.
It has conveniently overlooked the commission's call to consolidate Congress's multiple intelligence oversight committees and subcommittees — which ends up leaving no one with real oversight power.
This is efficiency at its finest, and incorporating artificial intelligence to consolidate employees, tasks, and systems will reap immediate benefits.
If lawmakers are going to try to consolidate the government's intelligence-gathering operations, as they should, they can set a good example by taking on the turf battles within their own ranks first.
Mr. Rumsfeld's efforts to consolidate his hold over military intelligence -- an enormous bureaucracy that includes the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office and the intelligence branches of the individual military services -- carries important implications for the whole intelligence community.
For now, know that Microsoft has consolidated its artificial intelligence tools into a single, coherent division and just about every vendor — not just those selling CRM — is trying to build some level of intelligence into its products.
Not until January 1952 were all intelligence functions consolidated under a Deputy Director for Intelligence (DDI).
