CDASA Topic 1 Questions & Answers
Who is the principal staff assistant and advisor to the SecDef on all intelligence, CI and security,
and other intelligence-related matters? - ✔✔The USD(i)
The DNI has designated (BLA
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CDASA Topic 1 Questions & Answers
Who is the principal staff assistant and advisor to the SecDef on all intelligence, CI and security,
and other intelligence-related matters? - ✔✔The USD(i)
The DNI has designated (BLANK) for Intelligence as his Director of Defense Intelligence (DDI)
to facilitate coordination between the defense and unrelated defense elements of the IC. -
✔✔USD(i)
Who authorized the creation of the ODNI and gave the DNI authority to establish functional
issue managers and mission managers to coordinate IC activities with respect to designated
countries, regions, topics, or functional issues? - ✔✔The President
Who is the principal advisor to the President on intelligence matters related to national security?
- ✔✔The Director of National Intelligence
What are the two primary focuses of non-DoD IC members? - ✔✔Strategic intelligence and
support the President and SecDef.
Who chairs the Military Intelligence Board? - ✔✔Director of DIA
What is the NSC (natl sec council) the principal forum for? - ✔✔National security issues that
require Presidential decision.
The (BLANK) gave the DNI authority over the intelligence budget, authority to shift a certain
amount of resources among agencies to accomplish specified missions, and approval authority
concerning personnel decisions for top leadership positions in the IC outside of DoD. - ✔✔EO
12333 of 1981, as amended.
The National Security Act of (BLANK) created the framework for the IC. - ✔✔1947
As a crisis develops, an (BLANK) may be established within the NJIOC Alert Center to provide
focused coverage of crisis requirements. - ✔✔Intelligence Working Group (IWG)
The joint-force J2 will (BLANK) need the support of (BLANK) in order to provide the JFC with
timely, relevant, and accurate intelligence. - ✔✔generally; national intelligence organizations
If a crisis situation continues to escalate, or SecDef orders a significant military response to the
crisis, the Joint Staff J-2 may decide to form an (BLANK) - ✔✔Intelligence Task Force (ITF)
Intelligence Planning for rapid response to possible crises occurs well ahead of time as part of a
command's overall (BLANK) - ✔✔Joint Operation Planning Process (JOPP)
The (BLANK) is an integrated Joint Staff J2/J3/J5 element that monitors the global situation on a
continual basis and provides the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), and SecDef a
DoD planning and crisis response capability. - ✔✔NJOIC (national joint operations and
intelligence center)
The (BLANK) is the focal point for the CCMD's intelligence planning (IP), collection
management, analysis, and production effort, and is organized in a manner best suited to satisfy
the CCDR's intelligence requirement. - ✔✔JIOC (Joint intelligence operations center)
Who usually exercises staff supervision over the JIOC and coordinates the intelligence effort of
subordinate commands? - ✔✔CCMD J2
The CCMDs intelligence support relationships are preplanned agreements (formalized in
OPLANS, national intelligence support plans (NISPs), or memorandums of agreement) intended
to provide a rapid, flexible, surge capability enabling personnel from throughout the IC to assist
the CCMD while remaining at their normal duty stations. What is the correct term of this
relationship? - ✔✔Joint Federations
Joint Intelligence organizations are directly responsible for providing the CCMD and subordinate
joint force with a common, coordinated intelligence picture by fusing (BLANK), (BLANK), and
(BLANK) into all-source assessments and estimates. - ✔✔National & theater intelligence, law
enforcement, and CI information
A (BLANK) does not have an intelligence production and training capability. - ✔✔JRIC (Joint
Reserve (or regional?) Intelligence Center)
Commander of (BLANK) plans, integrates, and coordinates ISR in support of strategic and
global operations and advocates for ISR capabilities. - ✔✔USSTRATCOM
(BLANK) has prepositioned deployable, large-bandwidth, and secure satellite communications
packages at each CCMD regional support center. - ✔✔DIA
A (BLANK) normally manages the intelligence collection, production, analysis, and
dissemination for a joint force. - ✔✔J2
In addition to the J2 staffs at every joint level of command, the key organizations in the defense
intelligence architecture are the (BLANK), (BLANK), (BLANK), and (BLANK). - ✔✔DIA,
NGA, NRO, & NSA.
Who assists the USD(i) with respect to matters relating to the integration of ISR capabilities and
coordination of related developmental activities of DoD components and CCMDs. - ✔✔ISR
Integration Council
Who are the military members of the IC? - ✔✔The four defense agencies (NRO, NGA, NSA,
DIA) and the intel organizations of the four services (AF, Army, Marine, Navy)
(BLANK), their (BLANK), and (BLANK) and (BLANK) provide intelligence and CI support for
departmental missions related to military systems, equipment, and training. - ✔✔Service chiefs,
their staff, intel and CI chiefs
Who exercises staff supervision of the intelligence alert center supporting the NMCC (national
military command center) and keeps the CJCS apprised of foreign situations that are relevant to
current and potential national security policy, objectives, and strategy? - ✔✔CJ2
True or false: the DIA Director is also responsible for representing and advocating CCMD views
and intelligence requirements to the Joint Staff and Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). -
✔✔False; it is the J2
Which of the following responsibilities are not a function of the DIA Director? 1. Responsible
for coordinating with the CCMDs to staff intelligence-related CJCS orders (e.g., alert orders,
planning orders, warning orders). 2. Coordinates intelligence support to meet CCMD
requirements and reports to SecDef through the JCS. 3. Defense Collection, CI and HUMINT
Manager. 4. Commander, Joint Functional Component Command for ISR (JFCC-ISR). 5.
Supports activities to leverage joint reserve intelligence centers (JRICs). - ✔✔Everything (1-3,
5) except for 4. Commander, Joint Functional Component Command for ISR (JFCC-ISR).
Who exercises the SecDef's authority, direction, and control over the DoD agencies and DoD
field activities that are defense intelligence, CI, security, exercise, planning, policy, and strategic
oversight over all DoD intelligence, CI, and security policy, plans, and programs. - ✔✔The
USD(i)
(BLANK) exercises control over the (BLANK), (BLANK), (BLANK), and (BLANK) and has
authority to establish additional national intelligence centers when deemed necessary to address
other intelligence priorities, such as regional issues. - ✔✔DNI; National Intelligence Council,
National CI Executive, National Counterterrorism Center, National Counterproliferation Center.
Who develops and determines the annual budget for the National Intelligence Program (NIP) and
monitors the implementation and execution of the NIP by the heads of IC member organizations?
- ✔✔DNI
Who reviews and advocates for intelligence capabilities of the Joint Intelligence Operations
Center and the Service Intelligence Centers, in coordination with the CCMDs and MILDEPs, to
ensure missions performance is aligned with Defense priorities and consistent with national
priorities. - ✔✔The DIA Director USD(i)
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