about the ncix
On 21 Sep 2009, Robert "Bear" Bryant was appointed as the National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX). Mr. Bryant has had a long and distinguished law enforcement and counterintelligence career culminating with his appointment as the deputy director of the FBI, the number two official in the Bureau.
Bryant’s notable achievements include the successful investigations and prosecutions of the spies Aldrich Ames, Earl Pitts and Harold Nicholson, oversight of the Oklahoma City bombing investigation and the bombing of the Khobar Towers investigation in Saudi Arabia, and the peaceful resolution of the Montana Freeman standoff. Read More >>
The Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive (ONCIX) is part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and is staffed by senior counterintelligence (CI) and other specialists from across the national intelligence and security communities. The ONCIX develops, coordinates, and produces:
- Annual foreign intelligence threat assessments and other analytic CI products.
- An annual national CI strategy for the US Government.
- Priorities for CI collection, investigations, and operations.
- CI program budgets and evaluations that reflect strategic priorities.
- In-depth espionage damage assessments.
- CI awareness, outreach, and training standards policies.
what is counterintelligence?
Counterintelligence is the business of identifying and dealing with foreign intelligence threats to the United States. Its core concern is the intelligence services of foreign states and similar organizations of non-state actors, such as transnational terrorist groups. Counterintelligence has both a defensive mission—protecting the nation's secrets and assets against foreign intelligence penetration—and an offensive mission—finding out what foreign intelligence organizations are planning to better defeat their aims.