ODNI exercises control over four national centers: NIC, NCE, NCTC, and NCPC. Which organization is NOT one of these centers?

ODNI exercises control over four national centers: NIC, NCE, NCTC, and NCPC. Which organization is NOT one of these centers?

• A. National Intelligence Council
• B. National Counterterrorism Center
• C. National Counterproliferation Center
• D. National Security Council

Answer: (D)

ODNI’s national centers are built to unify and coordinate specific intelligence activities across the IC: a center for strategic analysis and forecasting, a center for counterterrorism coordination, a center for counterproliferation coordination, and a counterintelligence center coordinating across agencies. The National Security Council, however, operates as the President’s policy coordination body in the White House, not as an ODNI intelligence center. It handles national security policy rather than serving as an integrated intelligence center. So the organization not among these centers is the National Security Council.

ODNI’s national centers are built to unify and coordinate specific intelligence activities across the IC: a center for strategic analysis and forecasting, a center for counterterrorism coordination, a center for counterproliferation coordination, and a counterintelligence center coordinating across agencies. The National Security Council, however, operates as the President’s policy coordination body in the White House, not as an ODNI intelligence center. It handles national security policy rather than serving as an integrated intelligence center. So the organization not among these centers is the National Security Council.