What is Intelligence?
The final product provided to policymakers
What is an intelligence assessment?
Strategic intelligence helps leaders prepare for future events instead of only responding to this
What are current events/crises?
The process of turning information into useful knowledge
What is analysis?
The stage where information is gathered
What is collection?
SIGINT
What is signals intelligence?
The process of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information to support decision makers
What is Intelligence?
Intelligence used by national leaders to make long-term policy and security decisions
What is strategic intelligence?
The goal of intelligence analysis is to transform information into this
What is intelligence?
This stage involves interpreting informaton and creating intelligence assessments.
Measurement and signature intelligence
MASINT
This type of intelligence comes from human sources
What is HUMINT?
Strategic intelligence is primarily used by this group of decision-makers
What are policymakers?
Analysts use this skill to determine the meaning and importance of collected information
What is interpretation?
Before analysts can interpret information, it typically passes through this stage
What is processing?
OSINT
What is open source intelligence?
Information that has been collected but not yet analyzed is known as this
What is raw intelligence?
Strategic intelligence is often used to support decisions involving diplomacy, defense, and this
What is national security?
Intelligence product that provides an explanation of current events and possible future developments
What is an intelligence assessment?
The step where intelligence products are delivered to those who need them for decision-making
What is dissemination?
Geospatial intelligence
GEOINT
The four major steps commonly found in the intelligence cycle
What is collection, processing, analysis & dissemination?
The primary purpose of strategic intelligence is to reduce this in decision-making
What is uncertainty?
Biases, assumptions, and poor analysis can contriute to these
What are intelligence failures?
This stage of the intelligence cycle is most closely associated with HUMINT, SIGINT, AND GEOINT
What is collection?
Human intelligence
HUMINT