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IFPC Questions and Answers (Expert
Solutions)
Q: What is Intelligence?
ANS 🗹🗹: Processed Information that provides an assessment
Q: What is the primary role of joint intelligence?
ANS 🗹🗹: To provide information and assessments to facilitate mission
accomplishment
Q: What is Strategic Intelligence
ANS 🗹🗹: Intelligence needed by policymakers to make policy and military decision
at the national and international level
Q: What is Operational Intelligence
ANS 🗹🗹: Intelligence used by military leaders to plan and accomplish strategic
objectives with the operational area
Q: What is Tactical Intelligence
ANS 🗹🗹: Intelligence provided to military leaders in the field to accomplish
immediate tactical objectives
Q: President's Daily Brief (PDB)
ANS 🗹🗹: The flagship intelligence product that the Director of national
Intelligence delivers every day to the president. This document emphasizes
strategic analysis.
Q: WIRe
ANS 🗹🗹: CIA Product that several hundred senior Executive and legislative branch
policymakers receive daily
Q: National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) and National Intelligence Assessments
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ANS 🗹🗹: Products written by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) with input
from the entire Intelligence Community (IC). NIEs often provide a longer-term
perspective on issues of critical national security
Q: Secretary of Defense/Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Daily Intelligence Update
(SECDEF/CJCS J2 Daily Intelligence Update)
ANS 🗹🗹: Department of Defense (DoD) Product that the DoD leadership receives
daily
Q: Secretary's Morning Summary (SMS)
ANS 🗹🗹: A State Department product that the Secretary of State Receives Daily
Q: Strategic Intelligence Target Audience
ANS 🗹🗹: SR Military and Civilian Leaders; Combatant Commanders
Q: Responsibilities of Strategic Intelligence
ANS 🗹🗹: Assist in developing national strategy and policy ; monitor the
international or global situation ; assist in developing military plans ; assist in
determining major weapons systems and force structure requirements ; support
the conduct of strategic operations
Q: Operational Intelligence Target Audience
ANS 🗹🗹: Combatant and Subordinate Joint Force Commanders; Component
Commanders
Q: Responsibilities of Operational Intelligence
ANS 🗹🗹: Focus on military capabilities and intentions of enemies and adversaries;
analyze the operational environment; identify adversary centers of gravity and
critical vulnerabilities; monitor events in the joint forces commanders area of
interest; support the planning and conduct of joint campaigns
Q: Tactical Intelligence Target Audience
ANS 🗹🗹: Unit Commanders
Q: Responsibilities of Tactical Intelligence
IFPC Questions and Answers (Expert
Solutions)
Q: What is Intelligence?
ANS 🗹🗹: Processed Information that provides an assessment
Q: What is the primary role of joint intelligence?
ANS 🗹🗹: To provide information and assessments to facilitate mission
accomplishment
Q: What is Strategic Intelligence
ANS 🗹🗹: Intelligence needed by policymakers to make policy and military decision
at the national and international level
Q: What is Operational Intelligence
ANS 🗹🗹: Intelligence used by military leaders to plan and accomplish strategic
objectives with the operational area
Q: What is Tactical Intelligence
ANS 🗹🗹: Intelligence provided to military leaders in the field to accomplish
immediate tactical objectives
Q: President's Daily Brief (PDB)
ANS 🗹🗹: The flagship intelligence product that the Director of national
Intelligence delivers every day to the president. This document emphasizes
strategic analysis.
Q: WIRe
ANS 🗹🗹: CIA Product that several hundred senior Executive and legislative branch
policymakers receive daily
Q: National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) and National Intelligence Assessments
, Page | 2
ANS 🗹🗹: Products written by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) with input
from the entire Intelligence Community (IC). NIEs often provide a longer-term
perspective on issues of critical national security
Q: Secretary of Defense/Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Daily Intelligence Update
(SECDEF/CJCS J2 Daily Intelligence Update)
ANS 🗹🗹: Department of Defense (DoD) Product that the DoD leadership receives
daily
Q: Secretary's Morning Summary (SMS)
ANS 🗹🗹: A State Department product that the Secretary of State Receives Daily
Q: Strategic Intelligence Target Audience
ANS 🗹🗹: SR Military and Civilian Leaders; Combatant Commanders
Q: Responsibilities of Strategic Intelligence
ANS 🗹🗹: Assist in developing national strategy and policy ; monitor the
international or global situation ; assist in developing military plans ; assist in
determining major weapons systems and force structure requirements ; support
the conduct of strategic operations
Q: Operational Intelligence Target Audience
ANS 🗹🗹: Combatant and Subordinate Joint Force Commanders; Component
Commanders
Q: Responsibilities of Operational Intelligence
ANS 🗹🗹: Focus on military capabilities and intentions of enemies and adversaries;
analyze the operational environment; identify adversary centers of gravity and
critical vulnerabilities; monitor events in the joint forces commanders area of
interest; support the planning and conduct of joint campaigns
Q: Tactical Intelligence Target Audience
ANS 🗹🗹: Unit Commanders
Q: Responsibilities of Tactical Intelligence
