2. Question crafting
3. Scoping
Knowledge review ✔ 1. Available knowledge
2. Collection posture
3. Critical gaps
Resource picture ✔ 1. Technology and tools
2. People
3. Time
Methodology building ✔ 1. Project timeline and milestones
2. Knowledge development plans
Knowledge development ✔ 1. Collection
2. Outreach
3. Research
Performing analysis ✔ 1. Discipline-specific technique
2. Targeted technique
, 3. Sensemaking
Evaluating analysis ✔ 1. Assess/evaluate analytic finding
2. Impact of remaining gaps and assumptions
3. Analysis of alternatives
4. Confidence selection
Intelligence Community (IC) ✔ Group of Executive Branch agencies and
organizations that work separately and together to engage in intelligence
activities that are necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and the
protection of the national security of the United States.