National Drug Intelligence Center
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The United States National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC), established in 1993, was a component of the
The NDIC ceased to exist on June 16, 2012. Its former DOMEX and strategic analysis functions transferred over to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Creation
On September 5, 1989 President George H.W. Bush with his Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) William Bennett, unveiled his National Drug Control Strategy which outlined the President's strategy for coordinating the combined efforts of various federal programs to reduce drug use and drug trafficking in the United States. The inaugural strategy was to announce that ONDCP would develop an intelligence center that would unite U.S. drug-related analytical capabilities and to improve intelligence capabilities. In January 1990, ONDCP announced its plans to create a National Drug Intelligence Center to "consolidate and coordinate all relevant drug intelligence information gathered by law enforcement agencies and analyze it to produce a more complete picture of drug trafficking organizations." What distinguished the intelligence to be developed by NDIC from that of other agencies was the focus on strategic intelligence.
In the FY1993 Department of Defense Appropriation (PL 102-396), Congress provided statutory backing to the President's vision for NDIC. In that law, the mission of NDIC was "to coordinate and consolidate." Initially being staffed with intelligence analysts and agents from the
Mission
"The mission of NDIC was to provide strategic drug-related intelligence, document and media exploitation support, and training assistance to the drug control, public health, law enforcement, and intelligence communities of the United States in order to reduce the adverse effects of drug trafficking, drug abuse, and other drug-related criminal activity."[1]
The NDIC ceased to exist on June 15, 2012. DOMEX functions were transferred to the Drug Enforcement Administration.[2]
Products
HashKeeper
National Drug Threat Survey
See also
References
- ^ NDIC website, viewed November 15, 2008
- ^ "USDOJ: National Drug Intelligence Center". United States Department of Justice. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
- ^ "Gang Prosecutions" (PDF). Executive Office for United States Attorneys, Office of Legal Education. p. 101. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
- ^ "Using File Hashes to Reduce Forensic Analysis". SC Magazine. 14 January 2004. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
- Zelkowitz, Marvin, ed. (2004). Advances in Computers(60 ed.). Elsevier Academic Press. p. 101. Retrieved September 26, 2016.