The Intelligence Community seeks "to leverage a data co-op model to reduce the aggregate cost of Commercially Available Information (CAI) and Publicly Available Information (PAI) and accelerate and improve the IC's acquisition of and access to CAI and PAI." This illustrates a strategic pivot towards efficiency in data purchasing practices, highlighting the emphasis on both cost reduction and rapid access.
The desire to make data collection cheaper and quicker comes from the fact that spy agencies "are unable to rapidly and efficiently vet and acquire data due to the growing volume of data available for purchase and the increasing number of private sector vendors that sell their own and third-party data." This statement underscores the challenges currently faced by intelligence agencies.
Now, the US spy community has published a request for information (RFI) that would accelerate and expand upon its controversial data purchasing practices to make buying your data even more efficient and cheaper than ever before. This indicates an ongoing trend towards the normalization of data acquisition from commercial sources.
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