Intelligence (disambiguation)

Intelligence can refer to a number of topics:

• intelligence (brain power)
• intelligence (information gathering), the practice of finding information on opponents, or potential opponents.

intelligence collection disciplines

• • Intelligence collection management [r]: Assigning questions to various collection techniques, reflecting the techniques available and the priority of the information need. Includes the process of categorizing information learned for subsequent analysis, and assigning probabilities of accuracy to the raw information ^[e]
  • Human-source intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description (HUMINT)
  • Signals intelligence [r]: the practice of acquiring information through monitoring the electromagnetic signals deliberately trasmitted by an opponent, including communications (COMINT) and non-communications electronics such as radar (ELINT). ^[e] (SIGINT)
  • Measurement and signature intelligence [r]: A variety of intelligence gathering disciplines complementary to the technical "mainstream" of imagery intelligence and signals intelligence. ^[e] (MASINT)
  • Imagery intelligence [r]: the practice of taking and interpreting visible and infrared light photographs and video, radar imagery, and other ways to form pictures of subjects of interest ^[e] (IMINT)

hybrid intelligence collection and analysis disciplines

• • Open source intelligence [r]: Obtaining information, to be used in intelligence analysis, from sources available to the public. such as radio and television broadcasts, web sites, books, and similar materials. ^[e] (OSINT)
  • Technical intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description (TECHINT)
  • scientific and technical intelligence The combined tasks of collecting information about the national-level science and technology capabilities of a country, and extrapolating the country's capabilities in the related fields ((S&TI))
  • financial intelligence (FININT), the combined tasks of collecting information on financial transactions (either from the financial institution or by clandestine means) and then analyzing it to determine providers and consumers of money or money equivalents.
  • economic intelligence (ECONINT), the set of problems in understanding the flow of money and money equivalents inside a country, its policies on reinvestment and foreign investment, and other matters that will explain the country's capabilities to produce resources for critical needs
  • Medical intelligence [r]: Techniques involved in determining the public health of a country, so the physical characteristics of leaders and workers are understood, as well as local hazards to foreigners entering the country or regions of it ^[e] (MEDINT)

intelligence analysis and use process

• • intelligence analysis, the discipline of correlating multiple kinds of information and inferring meaning from the set of data available.
    • cognitive traps for intelligence analysis, or detecting and mitigating potential errors in the intelligence analysis process
    • intelligence analysis tradecraft, the art of performing intelligence analysis
  • intelligence dissemination management, the process of distributing analyzed information to appropriate consumers.

protecting the intelligence process

• • intelligence cycle security, the process of balancing the protection of sources versus the needs of users.
    • counterintelligence, the active and passive measures taken to guard against inadvertent disclosures to hostile intelligence services.

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