Multiple Choice Questions

1. The National Intelligence Strategy (2014) establishes the US intelligence community's long term priorities. The National Intelligence Strategy is written by:
a. The President ;
b. Congress;
c. The Director of National Intelligence,
d. Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.

2. The National Intelligence Strategy says the following are priorities for the US intelligence community.
a. Counter Terrorism and War on Drugs;
b. Cyber Intelligence and Counter Terrorism;
c. Strategic Intelligence and Scarce Natural Resources;
d. All of the Above

3. The National Intelligence Priorities Framework (NIPF) is the process the US intelligence community uses to:
a. Plan how the US IC requests its funding/budget from the Congress;
b. Determine the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the people to hire into the US IC;
c. Assign more specific priorities to the broad objectives in the National Intelligence Strategy;
d. Provide an annual worldwide threat assessment to the Congress.

4. Within the National Intelligence Priorities Framework (NIPF), priorities are assigned to:
a. Countries;
b. Non-state actors, e.g., terrorists groups;
c. Issues, e.g., proliferation,
d. Combination of Countries and non-state actors with issues, e.g., Iran + proliferation.

5. During the period 2007 through 2014, the total annual US intelligence budget was:
a. Between $50 and $60 billion per year;
b. Between $60 and $80 billion per year;
c. Between $80 and $100 billion per year.

6. According to the reading, given its annual budget, if the US intelligence community was a corporation it would not rank as a "Fortune 500" size corporation.
a. True;
b. False.

7. The planning for any given year's intelligence budget starts the year before the budget is to be passed by Congress and the US IC begins obligating and spending its funds.
a. True;
b. False.

8. Which of the following entities have a role to play in creating the US intelligence community's budget every year:
a. Office of the Director of National Intelligence;
b. Congress;
c. US Office of Management and Budget,
d. All of the Above.

9. The annual US intelligence community budget is divided into two large programs. Those programs are:
a. The National Intelligence Program (NIP) and the Military Intelligence Program (MIP);
b. The Central Intelligence Agency Program (CIAP) and the General Defense Intelligence Program (GDIP);
c. The National Intelligence Program (NIP) and the National Reconnaissance Program (NRP);
d. The Central Intelligence Agency Program (CIAP) and the Foreign Counterintelligence Program (FCIP).

10. The Congressional budget process is a two step process. The first step is authorization and the second is appropriation. Authorization means:
a. A Congressional committee approved specific programs and activities for the US intelligence community but not the specific amounts of money to be spent on those programs and activities;
b. A Congressional committee approved the specific amounts of money that can be spent on US intelligence community programs and activities for one year;
c. A Congressional committee approved a special request from the US intelligence community to fund a program or activity that was not in the budget passed by Congress;
d. A Congressional committee approved both the specific programs and activities for the US intelligence community and the specific amounts of money to be spent on those programs and activities.