Chemists in the Lab’s Forensic Science Center observe a vial containing a reaction mixture of a synthesized oxime antidote candidate against nerve-agent poisoning.
Analytic Tradecraft & Production
The Analytic Tradecraft and Production (ATP) team is a critical cornerstone of LLNL’s engagement with interagency and intelligence community partners. ATP is responsible for ensuring that our analytic practices, from concept development to product dissemination, adhere to intelligence community standards and produce high-quality products that are insightful, impactful, well-supported and scientifically accurate. We review every analytic product intended for our intelligence community or other federal partners for objectivity, political independence, timeliness, completeness of information and application of specific analytic tradecraft standards outlined in Intelligence Community Directive 203. Over decades, we have built a reputation for excellence, which we strive to maintain. Reflecting the expanded scope of work we have undertaken in Z Program, ATP reviews hundreds of intelligence-informed S&T analytic products annually.
Analytic Enablement
Analytic enablement facilitates tradecraft integration and implementation via training in the classroom and on the job. It leverages workshops, briefings, guides and database research as well as rigorous internal and external review processes that last for the project's lifecycle.
Analytic Integrity
Analytic integrity ensures the robustness of tradecraft and the execution of high-quality, intelligence-informed science and technology (S&T) analysis. This integrity is evaluated by the ODNI Analytic Integrity and Standards Office and the DOE’s Analytic Tradecraft Working Group.
The Analytic Tradecraft Program (ATP) supports this integrity through various services, including:
- Layout and graphics
- Technical editing
- Quality assurance
- Classification compliance
- Release and downgrade coordination
- Product distribution (e.g., file scrubbing, product announcements and website postings)
The Field Intelligence Element (FIE)
In 1996, in coordination with the DOE Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (DOE-IN), LLNL established the Field Intelligence Element (FIE) to ensure Laboratory compliance with national policy governing intelligence activities across the DOE complex. These policies are detailed in Executive Orders, most notably EO 12333, and various Intelligence Community Directives. Responsibilities include physical, personnel and information security, SCIF operations and logistics, cybersecurity and information technology support and Special Access Program oversight. Today, the FIE ensures that approximately 1,100 SCI-cleared personnel can execute a portfolio of ~200 projects on a range of network systems in secure locations.
