§ 386.4 - Responsibilities and functions.

The Director of the Central Imagery Office shall:

(a) Organize, direct, and manage the Central Imagery Office and all assigned resources.

(b) Manage the establishment of national imagery collection requirements consistent with guidance received from the Director of Central Intelligence under E.O. 12333.

(c) Ensure responsive imagery support to the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency, and, as appropriate, other Federal Government departments and agencies, including by coordination of imagery collection tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination.

(d) Task imagery collection elements of the Department of Defense to meet national intelligence requirements, including requirements established by the Director of Central Intelligence in accordance with the National Security Act of 1947 and E.O. 12333, except that the Director of the Central Imagery Office shall advise an imagery collection element on collection of imagery to meet such national intelligence requirements when the collection element both:

(1) Is assigned to or under the operational control of the Secretary of a Military Department or a commander of a unified or specified command and,

(2) Is not allocated by the Secretary of Defense to meet national intelligence requirements.

(e) Advise imagery collection elements of the Department of Defense on the collection of imagery to meet non-national intelligence requirements.

(f) Establish, consistent to the maximum practicable extent with the overall functional architectures of the Department of Defense, the architectures for imagery tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination within the Department of Defense, and, to the extent authorized by the heads of other departments or agencies with imagery tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination functions establish the architectures for imagery tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination within those departments or agencies.

(g) Establish, in coordination with the Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, as appropriate, standards for imagery systems for which the Department of Defense has responsibility and ensure compatibility and interoperability for such systems, and, to the extent authorized by the heads of other departments or agencies with imagery systems, establish standards and ensure compatibility and interoperability with respect to the systems of those departments or agencies.

(h) Serve as the functional manager for a Consolidated Imagery Program within the National Foreign Intelligence Program consistent with applicable guidance received from the Director of Central Intelligence in accordance with the National Security Act of 1947 and E.O. 12333.

(i) Serve as the functional manager for the Tactical Imagery Program within the budget aggregation known as the Tactical Intelligence and Related Activites.

(j) Evaluate the performance of imagery components of the Department of Defense in meeting national and non-national intelligence requirements, and to the extent authorized by the heads of other departments or agencies with imagery tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination functions evaluate the performance of the imagery components of those departments or agencies in meeting national and non-national intelligence requirements.

(k) Develop and make recommendations on national and non-national imagery policy, including as it relates to international matters, for the approval of appropriate Federal Government officials.

(l) Support and conduct research and development activities related to imagery tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination, consistent with applicable law and Department of Defense directives.

(m) Protect intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure in accordance with guidance received from the Director of Central Intelligence under the National Security Act of 1947 and E.O. 12333.

(n) Ensure the compliance of the Central Imagery Office with 10 U.S.C. the National Security Act of 1947, E.O. 12333, DoD Directive 5240.12 and 5240.1-R3 and other applicable laws and Department of Defense directives.

(o) Establish standards for training personnel performing imagery tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination functions.

(p) Advise the Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence on future needs for imagery systems.

(q) Ensure that imagery systems are exercised to support military forces.

(r) Perform such other functions related to imagery as the Secretary of Defense may direct.