Lecture 5 Flashcards
Tactical Intel
Perishable. changeable. relatively short shelf life. Required for near term action.⇒ HIPRI & lost opportunity. Convoy of trucks, hostage locations.
Strategic information
Relatively long shelf life. Enduring. Required for long term planning. May lead to short term action.
Example. Cuban missile crisis. ⇒may require capability development
Intelligence cycle 6
Requirements Planning and direction Collection Processing and exploitation Analysis and production Dissemination
Raw information types
Fact Direct information Indirect information Direct data Indirect data
Methods and assets
HUMINT IMINT SIGINT MASINT OSINT
HUMINT product types
Docs Photos Recordings Digi data Reports Interrogations Debriefings
IMINT product types
Photos Digital imagery IR imagery Radar imagery Multi-spectral
SIGINT product types
Voice Text Code/cypher Encrypted Decrypted Selected emissions such as source frequency content composition
MASINT product types
Telemetry signals
Nuclear activity markers
Multi-spectral data
Selected emissions such as source frequency content composition
OSINT product types
Print such as Newspapers magazines books periodicals Internet such as Blogs news media social networks Television Radio
Define requirement
Identified information needs especially established by the ODNI
Define planning and direction
Management of the entire effort from identifying a need up to delivering the intel product to the client.
Planning and direction
What need How get Which get first Give tasking and instruct Monitor and adjust
SENSOR SELECTION
WHAT NEEDS TO BE DTX WHERE LOCATED WHEN NEEDED FREQUENCY WHAT PLATFORM
Prediction vs realities
<40% people undershot
>40% people overshot
