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What are the 6 worlds of MASINT - ANSWER Radar Radio Frequency Geo-Physical Nuclear Radiation Electro-Optical Polygraph What is a signature also thought of as? - ANSWER A trace Why is MASINT so little known? - ANSWER Relatively new, complex technologies, low media coverage, heavily classified What is the flow of the Intelligence Cycle? - ANSWER Requirements, Collection, Process and Exploitation, Analysis, Production, Dissemination, Consumption, Feedback What is a decision maker? - ANSWER The Consumer / Customer / policy maker What is processing? - ANSWER Techniques used to transform collected raw data into a form that is useable What is exploitation? - ANSWER Pre-analysis of collected info during which info is organized into logical categories, evaluated for usefulness, and stored
for future retrieval and manipulation Why are there issues with Collection in terms of Budget/ - ANSWER Technical collection systems are very expensive. In Cold War, cost issues rarely surfaced What is the Black Budget - ANSWER Secret Pot of funds Intel Community can draw from this as needed CLASSIFIED INTEL SPENDING Does collection have more in common with a vacuum cleaner or a microscope? - ANSWER Vacuum Cleaner What is the large discrepancy between amount of intel collected and amount processed / exploited - ANSWER Exploitation Imbalances
What is the reference for the tendency of collectors to gather intel on an issue that may or may not be useful to their agency - ANSWER Collection Swarmball
What provides an organized and definitive outline of the data requirements for a project - ANSWER Collection plan
What is OSINT? - ANSWER Open Source Intelligence Any type of lawfully obtainable info from publicly available sources
information about any object (natural or manmade) that can be observed or referenced to the earth and has national security implications
What are the types of GEOINT? - ANSWER Visible Light Imagery (film or digital images) Infrared (images based on heat reflected) Radar (pulses of radio waves sent and received) Multi-spectral (spectral analysis using several bands)
What is SIGINT? - ANSWER Signals Intelligence Information derived from intercepted communications, radar, and telemetry
In terms of SIGINT, what is content analysis - ANSWER Reading messages and analyzing what they mean
In terms of SIGINT, what is Traffic analysis - ANSWER Monitoring changes in comms. Indication and warning: tracking comms to identify patters to be able to flag potential indicators
In terms of SIGINT, what is Risk vs Take - ANSWER The need to consider the
value of intel to be collected vs risk of discovery
What is MASINT? - ANSWER Measurement and Signature Intelligence Technically derived intelligence which, when collected, processed, and analyzed, results in intelligence that: detects, tracks, identifies or describes the signatures of fixed or dynamic target sources.
What agency/agencies have responsibility for MASINT? - ANSWER DIA, NGA (Little bit of DOE)
What are the 4 key interactive functions for intel missions - ANSWER Requirements: what do we need to know to provide decision advantage Collection: how can we gather what is needed Analysis: FIND IN SLIDES Counter-Intel: How do we protect our secrets
What is a SME? - ANSWER Subject Matter Expert
What is analysis? - ANSWER Separation of a substantial whole (large problem) into its constituent parts (smaller problems)
What is politicized intel? - ANSWER Intel may be altered from its objective state to support policymakers preferred
What is Push vs Pull in terms of Products - ANSWER Push - going to someone to make them hear your report Pull - the person has to go out and find and read your report
What are the 3 Product Types - ANSWER Descriptive Explanatory Estimative
What are the Classification Levels - ANSWER Confidential (C) Secret (S) Top Secret (TS) For Official Use Only (FOUO) Unclassified (U) Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Releasable to Canada (RELCAN)
Who came up with the concept of "Thinking Systems" - ANSWER Daniel Kahneman
What is thinking system 1? - ANSWER thinking fast, with cognitive ease
How much effort does thinking system 1 take - ANSWER little
What is thinking System 2 - ANSWER thinking slowly, with cognitive strain
How much effort does thinking system 2 take - ANSWER more effort and complex computations
What are heuristics - ANSWER a mental shortcut or rule of thumb
What is representative bias? - ANSWER affects judgment when making predictions/forecasts
What is anchoring bias? - ANSWER When individuals establish a belief based on initial evidence and overly rely on that info in the processing of new evidence
