Effective system development requires recommendations that can gain the concurrence of the Intelligence Community’s many stakeholders and be implemented. The Community faces many challenges in the acquisition and development of new capabilities (e.g., collection against foreign WMD programs,2 and in support of counterinsurgency operations, and meaningful fusion of information from disparate sources). These challenges are real problems that impair the nation’s ability to gather, analyze, and employ intelligence that is vital to the President, the larger government, and our war-fighters.