§ 601.14 - Intelligence, Verification, and Information Management Bureau (IVI).

IVI has principal responsibility within the Agency for developing verification policy, compliance assessments and intelligence support. The Bureau provides research and technical analysis to the other ACDA bureaus; coordinates and integrates agency-wide perspectives on substantive compliance, verification and implementation issues; compiles, maintains, and analyzes all relevant arms control and nonproliferation data in support of agency requirements for compliance assessment and adjudication; establishes, manages and maintains all information systems within the Agency; and monitors and assures the availability of U.S. technical systems to implement existing treaties. IVI's responsibilities in the area of verification and compliance include analysis of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START I and II), the Open Skies Treaty, and most recently, the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). These are in addition to the earlier Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), the U.S.-Soviet Threshold Test Ban (TTB) and Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (PNE) Treaties, and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. In addition to treaty-specific responsibilities, the Bureau is also responsible for providing effective coordination of research and development on arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament issues among the departments and agencies of the executive branch; participating in the development of government-wide requirements for arms control research and development and implementation to ensure responsiveness to policy requirements as well as fiscal accountability; providing the definitive repository for negotiations documents such as negotiating records and electronic treaty texts; publishing the Agency's annual report, World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers; and providing economic analysis support to the Agency and to the interagency community for economic aspects of arms control and national security.