SOA channels its activities to those areas which have been identified in the strategic and management documents as relevant to national security and national interests. These documents include the National Security Strategy, National Strategy for Preventing and Combating Terrorism, and Annual Guidelines for the Work of Security-Intelligence Agencies.

These documents provide SOA with guidelines for its activities and the goals it has to achieve. We plan and perform our tasks on the basis of these documents. SOA then provides reports on information collected to its users.