You are a counterintelligence officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assigned to the Critical Technology Protection Division. Your division is responsible for providing counterintelligence support to research, development, and acquisition (RDA) missions. To accomplish this mission, your team has been asked to provide a counterintelligence threat briefing to a major defense contractor responsible for the research and development of critical U.S. defense technology. The purpose of this report is to help prevent foreign threats from acquiring U.S. critical program information to exploit and degrade its combat effectiveness and technical superiority.
For this assignment, you must review and discuss counterintelligence collection as well as the current list of U.S. critical technologies with your group.
Do the following:
Discuss counterintelligence collection methods.
Consider sources, techniques, and common operating pictures.
Examine the list of U.S. critical technologies.
A current list of critical technologies can be found within your Phase 3 Web resource titled Military Critical Technologies List.