The Importance of Direction to Intelligence Procedures

Importance of Direction

The Importance of Direction to Intelligence Procedures: Direction is the ‘start’ of the intelligence cycle. This phase informs the rest of the process, and defines the information gap, and intelligence requirement.

With the subsequent modifications to the model, it has also become the ‘end’ of the cycle (feedback)

Standing information requirements are usually rooted to the organizational purpose and don’t often change. They refer to information that continues to be important to know.

Specific information requirements come from the requirement to know a specific data . Usually used to inform a plan or deliberate action, it is also referred to as ‘Requests For Information’ or ‘RFIs’.

Identifying Sources of Information

Companies Declared Documents
National Accountancy Institutes
Collective GDP Of The Land
Supply Chain Health

Collection

Understand the broad scope of collection assets that may be available to an intelligence team

Understand the utility of imagery, communications and human intelligence to the collection process

Understand the growing role of open source intelligence and social media to modern intelligence teams. This will broaden into a discussion on the importance of big data to intelligence gatherers

Techniques for managing collection and the passage of data between organisations will be discussed and exercised