The Department of Energy's Office of Intelligence (IN) is the Intelligence Community's premier technical
intelligence resource in four core areas: nuclear weapons and nonproliferation; energy security; science and
technology; and nuclear energy, safety, and waste. Tapping the broad technology base of DOE's national
laboratories and the international reach of the DOE complex as a whole, IN accomplishes a three-part
mission:
To provide DOE, other US Government policy-makers, and the Intelligence Community with timely,
accurate, high-impact foreign intelligence analyses.
To ensure that DOE's technical, analytical, and research expertise is made available to the
intelligence, law enforcement, and special operations communities.
To provide quick-turnaround, specialized technology applications and operational support based on
DOE technological expertise to the intelligence, law enforcement, and special operations
communities.
DOE's intelligence program traces its origins to the days of the Manhattan Project, when the former Atomic
Energy Commission was tasked to provide specialized analysis of the nascent atomic weapons program of
the Soviet Union. Since then, that program--like the functions of the old AEC--has come to reside within
DOE. It continues to evolve in close concert with changing policy needs and the strengths of DOE's unique
scientific and technological base, from the world energy crisis of the 1970s--and consequent demand for
intelligence expertise in international energy supply and demand issues--to growing concerns over nuclear
proliferation in this decade.
