(16) To coordinate with elements of the
intelligence community and with Federal, State, and
local law enforcement agencies, and the private sector,
as appropriate.
(17) To provide intelligence and information
analysis and support to other elements of the
Department.
(18) To coordinate and enhance integration among
the intelligence components of the Department,
including through strategic oversight of the
intelligence activities of such components.
(19) To establish the intelligence collection,
processing, analysis, and dissemination priorities,
policies, processes, standards, guidelines, and
procedures for the intelligence components of the
Department, consistent with any directions from the
President and, as applicable, the Director of National
Intelligence.
(20) To establish a structure and process to
support the missions and goals of the intelligence
components of the Department.
(21) To ensure that, whenever possible, the
Department--
(A) produces and disseminates unclassified
reports and analytic products based on open-
source information; and
(B) produces and disseminates such reports
and analytic products contemporaneously with
reports or analytic products concerning the
same or similar information that the Department
produced and disseminated in a classified
format.
(22) To establish within the Office of Intelligence
and Analysis an internal continuity of operations plan.
(23) Based on intelligence priorities set by the
President, and guidance from the Secretary and, as
appropriate, the Director of National Intelligence--
(A) to provide to the heads of each
intelligence component of the Department
guidance for developing the budget pertaining
to the activities of such component; and
(B) to present to the Secretary a
recommendation for a consolidated budget for
the intelligence components of the Department,
together with any comments from the heads of
such compon