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4 steps of the Intelligence Cycle - Answer Orientation, Research, Exploitation, and
Dissemination
Human Intelligence (HUMINT) - Answer Intelligence gathered by means of interpersonal
contact. A category of intelligence derived from information collected and provided by human
sources.
Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) - Answer involves collecting foreign intelligence from
communications and information systems and providing it to customers across the U.S.
government
National Security Agency (NSA) - Answer the lead agency for collecting signals intelligence.
NSA is responsible for providing foreign signals intelligence (SIGINT) to our nation's
policymakers and military forces. The information is used to help protect our troops, support
our allies. fight terrorism, combat international crime and narcotics, support diplomatic
negotiations, and advance many other important national objectives.
Imagery (IMINT) - Answer includes representations of objects reproduced electronically or by
optical means on film, electronic display devices, or other media.
Imagery can be derived from visual photography, radar sensors, infrared sensors, lasers, and
electro-optics. Image intelligence (MIND) is obtained from the electro-optical and infrared
sensors and from synthetic aperture radars (SAR). possibly capable of detecting moving targets.
Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) - Answer utilizes information that is openly available to all.
The world overflows with information, facts and figures, writing and descriptions, pictures,
videos and audio recordings. Some of it is secured or classified.
Discovery - Answer Open-Source Data, a complex field of primary reference sources
Photographs, images, documents, audio and video recordings. satellite images, oral debriefing,
etc.
Discrimination - Answer Open-Source Information's secondary raw data emerged and
appropriately filtered by OSD data analysis. They generally consist of raw data that can be
agglomerated, usually with an editing process.
Distillation - Answer OSINT information derived from a voluntary process of analysis, filtering,
distillation, and dissemination to a specific selected category. Designed to meet particular
information needs, using their own, Intelligence processes.
, Dissemination - Answer Infarmation to which a high degree of certainty has been attributed.
Integrated Defense (ID) - Answer Bridges the gap between peacetime and wartime actions to
protect the force. It provides all personnel with the necessary tools to determine how to
mitigate risk to their assets. Each Commander should be capable of appling tailored, risk and
effects-based security planning after thorough analysis of the operational environment and
available resources.
Level 1 Threat - Answer threats include enemy agents and terrorists whose primary missions
include espionage, sabotage and subversion.
Level 2 Threat - Answer threats include small scale, irregular forces conducting
unconventional warfare that can pose serious threats to military forces and civilians.
Level 3 Threat - Answer threats have the capability of projecting combat power by air, land,
or sea anywhere into the operational area
Defense Force Commander (DFC) - Answer Serves as the installation commander's primary
advisor for ID . On AF installations , the SF squadron commander is the DFC On installations with
more than one SF squadron , the DFC is the SF commander responsible for installation security.
Terrorism - Answer The calculated use of violence to instill fear and is intended to coerce or
intimidate governments or societies. Pursues goals that are generally political, religious, or
ideological.
Hierarchical Structure - Answer Well-defined vertical chain of command and responsibility
and has a well-established command and support structure. Features greater specialization of
functions in their subordinate cells.
Networked Structures - Answer Unlike hierarchies, networks distribute authority and
responsibility throughout an organization, often creating redundant key functions.
Lone Terrorist - Answer Compared with a typical networked or hierarchical terrorist
organization,this terrorist "group" is often the hardest to detect. There tactics are conceived
entirely on their own without any direction from a terrorist commander.
Ethnocentric (IBT) - Answer Groups of this persuasion see race or ethnicity as the defining
characteristic of a society, and therefore a basis of cohesion.