Sec. 910. Survey on Open Source Enterprise
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The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (as the open source functional manager for the intelligence community), in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and any other head of an element of the intelligence community that the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency determines appropriate, shall conduct a survey to measure the satisfaction of customers of open-source intelligence with the Open Source Enterprise of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Director shall ensure that the survey under subsection (a)— evaluates which types of open-source intelligence supports the missions of the customers of such intelligence, regardless of whether the customers are elements of the intelligence community and regardless of whether the customers are receiving such intelligence from the Open Source Enterprise; evaluates how responsive the Open Source Enterprise is to the missions of the elements of the intelligence community and the other customers of the Open Source Enterprise; enables the Open Source Enterprise to set strategic priorities; and enables Congress to better oversee the strategic direction of the Open Source Enterprise and to provide support to the collection and analysis of open-source intelligence.
The survey under subsection
(a)shall include qualitative and quantitative questions designed to assess the following: The value of support provided by the Open Source Enterprise to the mission of the customer taking the survey. The accessibility of the products of the Open Source Enterprise. The frequency that such products are used in accomplishing the mission of the customer. The responsiveness of the Open Source Enterprise to tasking requests. Areas in which the Open Source Enterprise could improve. The in-house open-source intelligence capabilities of the customer taking the survey, including— a description of such capabilities; how such capabilities are tailored to the mission of the customer; when such capabilities were established; and whether and to what extent the customer coordinates with the Open Source Enterprise regarding such capabilities. A customer who receives the survey under subsection
(a)shall make all reasonable efforts to respond fully and frankly to the survey. In carrying out subsection (a), the Director of Central Intelligence shall seek advice regarding design methodology for customer satisfaction surveys from— experts in survey design of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; and senior executives of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department of State who conduct a survey similar to the survey under subsection (a). Not later than 180 days after the date on which the survey is completed under subsection (a), the Director shall submit to the congressional intelligence committees a report on the strategic direction of the Open Source Enterprise based on the results of the survey, including explanations of how the Open Source Enterprise will— build off the successes of the Open Source Enterprise; and fill gaps in the collection, production, analysis, or dissemination of open-source intelligence. The report under paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in classified form. Not later than 30 days after the date on which the Director submits to the congressional intelligence committees the report under paragraph (1), the Director shall provide to such committees a briefing on the strategic direction of the Open Source Enterprise.