1. Amanda Kaster
English Technical Writing
Amber Welch
August 31, 2016
Audience analysis- Government Intelligence
Government Intelligence has 17 different organizations in which they all play a different
role to protect the United States of America against foreign enemies. These organizations range
in vast areas of foreign and domestic terrorist, major foreign drug trafficking, technology threats,
nuclear proliferation, financing and several other job duties. The Office of the Director of
National Intelligence (ODNI) is one of the 17 organizations that has a large number jobs
available. One of the key occupations is Infor Sharing and Safeguarding Officer; this is a DoD
(Department of Defense) position. Meaning government-civilian employment at a level of GS-
13. To be eligible for this position individuals need to have experience in government
intelligence, for example, Military or FBI (intelligence agency at a lower level). They must also
be efficient in organization and implementing information sharing plans and programs (United
States ICC, N.D.). The ability to communicate, analyze, perform assignments and develop loyal
relationships. Info Sharing and Safeguarding employees use these skills to provide new and
improved procedures in keeping confidential information secure.
ODNI has many conferences and meetings with all other intelligence agencies to pass
important information securely. Info Sharing and Safeguarding personnel organizes these
meetings and must communicate all new information found and all program changes that will
take place. This is very important to those attending the meeting due to technical equipment and
terrorist hackers. Once all information is presented, they will all provide their opinion over which
is the best procedures for the next year. Those at the meeting will include Directors and

2. presidents of each government intelligence organization along with Info Sharing and
Safeguarding supervisors. Once everyone shares the needed information, Info Sharing and
Safeguarding will use the decided information into action.
These meetings are very important and work in a pyramid formation. The conference
starts with the directors of all the different organizations and then go to secondary employees and
lastly, to external audiences. The directors will provide all information and make all decisions,
then the secondary audiences or employees under the directors than will have to organize the
new decisions and execute. External audiences are those that have no choice but to follow the
new procedures. This would be the everyday citizens of America. This is of important to the
secondary audience and the external audience for many reasons. The secondary audience must
understand and obeyed by the needed tasks in order for the tasks to be done efficiently and
properly. Which then falls to the external audiences, civilians. Many civilians don’t know or
believe this information is important to them, but it is! Civilians must trust and agree with the
decisions chosen for national security. They must believe that they will be safe and information
will be secured from foreign and domestic terrorists.
Secondary audiences have an educational background. They all must pertain a college
major in the fields they all work in specifically. For example, those that work in technical threats
will have a criminology and/or a technology degree; those employed in nuclear proliferation will
have a science major or a masters; those functioning in finance will have a business and an
accountant major. The external audience is the most difficult, they come from a variety of
backgrounds. Some with college education and others with a GED or very little education. In
order for everyone to receive information and understand, directors provide speeches on the
News channels and live television so that all United States civilians will understand the process,

3. but without giving away any important information. When passing along information to all the
different branches, Info Sharing and Safeguarding must consider the different ethnical, social,
and cultural differences. If providing information in a way that may affect these differences,
many individuals could possibly become resistant and lose trust in the Government National
Security.
This process sounds very well thought out and simple, but many mistakes can happen
using the pyramid formation. A successful endeavor would be that everyone is happy with the
decisions made and understand the process, how to achieve the goals, and the decision made
works better than the old method. With a failed attempt, Info Sharing and Safeguarding will see
many people making mistakes on the new method, employees of all organizations don’t
understand how to create the process and don’t understand. Lastly, if there was a failed attempt
than classified information will be seen by the public or terrorist resulting in United states
citizens losing trust in the government protecting their safety.
This document is purposeful and knowledgeable, the information provided will create a
better understanding to the process of National Security and what is needed to keep America
safe. This will allow individuals to understand the roles and job duties to Info Sharing and
Safeguarding at the ODNI. The document presented is of significance meaning to secondary and
external audiences because it explains the procedures and regulations of all Government
Intelligence organizations, particularly pertaining to Info Sharing and Safeguarding. Agreeing
and understanding the information provided, employees can keep United States of America safe
and will insure citizens to trust and appreciate the government strong effort in keeping them
protected.

4. References
Member Agencies. (n.d.). Retrieved August 28, 2016, from
https://www.intelligencecareers.gov/icmembers.html
https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/jobs/26421.pdf