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9 Support Federal, State, Municipal, and international Partners Our preventive mission requires a high level of engagement with state and municipal law enforcement, other federal agencies, members of the intelligence Community, and our international counterparts. Accordingly, we have made it a top priority to improve information sharing and coordination, and to provide training and other support to Our partners. 10 Upgrade Technology to Successfully Perform the FBI's Mission We are upgrading our technology by deploying a state-of-the-art secure network, putting new computers with new Software on desktops, and building centralized databases. We are expanding our capabilities to fully exploit digital information and to share the results internally and externally. We also are educating our workforce to ensure that everyone understands how technology can help us do our job better Implementing the New Priorities To ensure adherence to the new priorities, we reduced the flexibility that was built into the old three-tiered system. Instead of allowing field offices to choose how to allocate resources within broad pnority areas, the new system dictates that managers satisfy operational needs in the strict order of their priority. Special Agents in Charge (SACs) making deployment decisions must first dedicate sufficient resources to handle priority one before handling priority two, and so forth. Similarly, Headquarters managers must provide services — such as training, hiring, and technology improvements — to operational programs in order of priority Communication of Priorities Understanding that successful implementation of the new priortties requires universal commitment to them, we embarked on a multi-faceted education campaign. We significantly increased the number of SAC conferences where we discuss the new priorities and task the SACs to communicate the message to their personnel in the field. Senior Headquarters executives regularly discuss the priorities in speeches, congressional testimony, published articles, employee e-mails and meetings. The FBI's intranet and employee publications, such as The Investigator magazine, provide continued updates and guidance on the new priorities to our employees. Also, a number of senior executives have begun traveling to each field office to deliver a multimedia presentation that educates employees about the current status of our new priorities and associated organizational reforms. 9 000000348 esi ra een nee as be st, oat Soy