Five hundred new positions have been authorized for the
office of the national intelligence director, under the
recently enacted intelligence reform measure (PL 108-458).
With approval from the Office of Management and Budget and
disclosure to Congress, the director may transfer 150
personnel funded within the national intelligence program
into the DNI office for up to two years, in addition to
“100 personnel authorized for elements of the
intelligence community,” for the first year the office is
in operation, according to a congressional summary of the
intelligence reform and terrorism prevention act recently
signed into law.
The DNI has also been authorized to “transfer unlimited
numbers of personnel authorized for an element of the
intelligence community to another such element” for up to
two years for higher priority work in support of “an
emergent need,” or for work that otherwise improves program
efficiency or effectiveness, according to the summary.
It said the “sense of the Congress” was that the DNI
should have the authority to establish “appropriate
personnel levels,” and use along with the Executive all
legal and administrative means to put necessary analytic
resources toward meeting emerging threats — and that the
DNI would manage and direct the “collection, analysis,
production and dissemination of national intelligence.”