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- Foreign Intelligence Survey Office (FISO): Responsible for planning, coordinating and tasking for all foreign intelligence survey activities — the extraction of intelligence from public and overt sources — including assignment of intelligence operations to specific agencies based on their capabilities and competencies; assesses the performance and effectiveness of the various survey agencies for the DFI. Reports to the DFI.
- Foreign Intelligence Operations Office (FIOO): Responsible for planning, coordinating and tasking for all foreign covert operations activities, including assignment of intelligence operations to specific agencies based on their capabilities and competencies; assesses the performance and effectiveness of the various operations agencies for the DFI. Reports to the DFI.
- Foreign Intelligence Analysis Office (FIAO): Responsible for planning, coordinating and tasking for all foreign intelligence analysis activities, including assignment of intelligence operations to specific agencies based on their capabilities and competencies; assesses the performance and effectiveness of the various analysis agencies for the DFI. Reports to the DFI. Aside from coordinating various intelligence analysis operations and integrating their analyses, the FIAO also has primary responsibility for Data Fusion and Data Mining to extract hidden correlations and patterns from the integrated intelligence data. Operation is highly coordinated with the DIAO.
- Intelligence Court: Serves as gatekeeper for tasking between the foreign intelligence operations coordinated by the DFI and the domestic intelligence operations coordinated by the DDI (see below). Tasking requests — requests for surveillance, undercover operations, targeted data searches, etc. — for domestic law-enforcement agencies from the DFI are reviewed and approved/disapproved by the Intelligence Court. Although operational coordination is permitted without Intelligence Court supervision, no direct tasking of domestic intelligence resources on behalf of foreign intelligence operations is permitted without Intelligence Court approval. This implies that procedural and organizational structures within the Court are required to prevent it from becoming a bottleneck to legitimate intelligence-gathering activities. The Intelligence Court falls under the judicial branch, rather than the executive branch, to ensure independence and to allow it to function as a guarantor of constitutional protections in integrated foreign/domestic intelligence operations.