What is Intelligence? - answer✔Processed Information that provides an assessment
What is the primary role of joint intelligence? - answer✔To provide information and
assessments to facilitate mission accomplishment
What is Strategic Intelligence - answer✔Intelligence needed by policymakers to make policy
and military decision at the national and international level
What is Operational Intelligence - answer✔Intelligence used by military leaders to plan and
accomplish strategic objectives with the operational area
What is Tactical Intelligence - answer✔Intelligence provided to military leaders in the field to
accomplish immediate tactical objectives
President's Daily Brief (PDB) - answer✔The flagship intelligence product that the Director of
national Intelligence delivers every day to the president. This document emphasizes strategic
analysis.
WIRe - answer✔CIA Product that several hundred senior Executive and legislative branch
policymakers receive daily
National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) and National Intelligence Assessments -
answer✔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
Secretary of Defense/Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Daily Intelligence Update
(SECDEF/CJCS J2 Daily Intelligence Update) - answer✔Department of Defense (DoD) Product
that the DoD leadership receives daily
Secretary's Morning Summary (SMS) - answer✔A State Department product that the Secretary
of State Receives Daily
Strategic Intelligence Target Audience - answer✔SR Military and Civilian Leaders; Combatant
Commanders
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Responsibilities of Strategic Intelligence - answer✔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
Operational Intelligence Target Audience - answer✔Combatant and Subordinate Joint Force
Commanders; Component Commanders
Responsibilities of Operational Intelligence - answer✔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
Responsibilities of Tactical Intelligence - answer✔Support planning and the execution of battles,
engagements, and other joint force activities; provide commanders with information on
imminent threats to their forces and changes in the operational environment; provide
commanders with obstacle intelligence
Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) - answer✔Intelligence that involves the interception of
Communications Intelligence (COMINT) and Electronic Signals Intelligence (ELINT)
Communications Intelligence (COMINT) - answer✔Intelligence based on information
intercepted from messages between individuals
Electronic Signals Intelligence (ELINT) - answer✔Refers to the information gleaned from
analyzing electronic signals, such as radars
The National Security Agency (NSA) has primary responsibility over which Intelligence? -
answer✔SIGINT Collection and Reporting
Human Intelligence (HUMINT) - answer✔Intelligence collected from human sources, where
operations officers and foreign agents conduct clandestine collection
Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) - answer✔Intelligence based on information in the public
domain domestically or abroad. Sources may include traditional media, internet forums and
media, government publications, and professional or academic papers. This information has
been deliberately discovered, discriminated, distilled, and disseminated to a select audience,
generally the commander and their immediate staff, in order to address a specific question. In
other words, applies the proven process of intelligence to the broad diversity of open sources
of information, and creates intelligence
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