 Military Intelligence personnel regularly train, liaise and deploy with foreign intelligence, government and non-government agencies to share knowledge and best practice.This ensures they keep abreast of threats and are able to collate essential intelligence to further protect the state, the Defence Forces and its interests.The service is under the command of a Colonel, known as the "Director of Military Intelligence", who provides regular intelligence briefings to the Deputy Chief of Staff (Operations), Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces and the Secretary General of the Department of Defence.