DB Intelligence Process

The Intelligence Cycle is the process of developing raw information into finished intelligence for use by policymakers, military commanders, and other consumers in decision making.

Identify and describe a global or regional threat from the Worldwide Threat Assessment.

Identify and describe one of the three foundational mission objectives from the National Intelligence Strategy that can be aligned with your global or regional threat.

What are roles within a function view of the IC in the intelligence process regarding intelligence from the threat identified? Managers / Clients - Identify specific policy makers

Collectors / Builders - Identify specific Collectors / Builders

All Source Analysis / Producers - Identify specific intel agencies that can contribute proper citations, work cited and any additional credible references

DB Intelligence sources and methods

What would be the advantages and disadvantages of the below major collection disciplines that areapplied to thethreat identified from yourprevious post?

OSINT GEOINT HUMINT SIGINT MASINT proper citations, work cited and any additional credible references

DB Intelligence Analysis

Using Kent's Analytic Doctrine, Explain one of the nine key attributes of the Intelligence Analyst, and how it can be applied to your other DB's. What do you believe is a key challenge for a new generation of analysts regarding current and future threats to national security? proper citations, work cited and any additional credible references

Kent, S. (2002). Sherman Kent and the Profession of Intelligence Analysis. Homeland Security Digital Library. https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=442468

DB Policy Oversight and Accountability

Once information has been reviewed and correlated with data from other available sources, it is called finished intelligence, and is disseminated directly to the same policymakers whose initial needs generated the intelligence requirements.

Based on posts from the previous discussion boards;

Describe the expected finished intelligence product listed below that may provide the most value to the policy maker and why? Current Intelligence Estimative Intelligence Warning Intelligence Scientific and Technical Intelligence Research Intelligence proper citations, work cited and any additional credible references