SOLUTIONS 2024
GEOINT operations - -Tasks, activities, and events to collect, manage, analyze,
generate, visualize, and provide imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial information
necessary to support national and defense missions and international arrangements.
GEOINT - -The exploitation & analysis of imagery and geospatial information to
describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced
activities on the earth.
Consists of imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial information. Any one or
combination of these three elements may be considered GEOINT.
ICD 203 - -Analytic Standards
Guides analysis and analytic production and states all IC analytic products shall be
consistent with the 5 Analytic Standards, including the 9 Analytic Tradecraft Standards.
Governs the production and evaluation of analytic products, and articulates the
responsibility of the intelligence analysts to strive for excellence, integrity, and rigor.
,Each IC element shall maintain a program of product evaluation using IC Analytic
Standards as the core elements for assessing criteria
Serve a common foundation for developing education and training in analytic skills
Promote a common ethic for analytic rigor and excellence, and personal integrity
Adherence is safeguarded by OD NI Analytic Ombuds
ICD 203 Five Analytic Standards - -Objective
Independent of Political Consideration
Timely
Based on all available sources of intel information
Implements Analytic Tradecraft Standards (nine)
, ICD 203 Nine Analytic Tradecraft Standards - -Properly describe the quality and
credibility of underlying sources, data and methodologies.
Properly express and explain uncertainties associated with major analytic judgments. Must
NOT combine a confidence level and a degree of likelihood in the same sentence.
Properly distinguish between underlying intelligence information and analysts'
assumptions and judgments.
Incorporate analysis of alternatives.
Demonstrate customer relevance and address implications.
Use clear and logical argumentation.
Explain change to or consistency of analytic judgments.
Make accurate judgments and assessments.