Correct Answers 2026/2027 Update.
Operations security indicators - Answer Process of collecting, processing, analyzing and
disseminating intelligence.
4 critical sources: Human, signals, image, and open-source intelligence
Human Intelligence (HUMINT) - Answer Any information that can be gathered from human
sources
Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) - Answer Intelligence derived from electronic signals and systems
used by foreign targets, such as communications systems, radars, and weapons systems.
Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) - Answer Intelligence that includes representations of objects
reproduced electronically or by optical means on film, electronic display devices, or other
media. Can be derived from visual photography, radar sensors, infrared sensors, lasers, and
electro-optics.
Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) - Answer Information that is readily available to the public
and doesn't require any type of malicious activity to obtain.
4 Steps of OSINT - Answer Discovery- collecting info
Discrimination- filtering collected info
Distillation - refining and filtering info again
Dissemination - final product of info collected
Integrated Defense - Answer Application of active and passive defense measures.
Bridges the gap between peacetime and wartime actions
Goal of Integrated Defense - Answer Employed to mitigate potential risks to DAF, joint and
coalition operations within base boundary and base security zone to ensure mission
accomplishment
Who is the defense force commander on AF bases? - Answer The SF squadron commander
THREAT LEVEL 1 - Answer Threats include enemy agents and terrorists whose missions are
espionage, sabotage, and subversion
, threat LEVEL 2 - Answer Small scale
Irregular forces conducting unconventional warfare that can pose serious threats to military
forces and civis
Ex; AL QUEDA
THREAT LEVEL 3 - Answer Capability of projecting combat power by air, land, or sea
EX: China Russia
ID coordination w other programs - Answer Protection and defense of air bases requires
efforts from:
Integrated defense
Emergency Management (EM)
Anti-Terrorism (AT)
Critical Asset Risk Management (CARM)
Continuity of Operations (COOP)
Force health protection
Cyber security
Terrorism - Answer Acts of violence designed to promote a specific ideology or agenda by
creating panic among an enemy population
lone terrorist - Answer Tactics conceived entirely by themselves w/o any direction from a
terrorist commander.
Terrorism Organizational Structure - Answer Hierarchical Structure - specialization of
functions in their subordinate cells (support, operations, intelligence)
Networked Structure- distribution of authority and responsibility throughout an organization. To
be effective, needs a unifying idea, concern, goal, or ideology
Ethnocentric - Answer believing in the superiority of one's own ethnic and cultural group,
and having a corresponding disdain for all other groups
nationalistic - Answer Placing one nations culture and interests above other nations