Intelligence assessment

Intelligence assessment, or simply intel, is the development of behavior forecasts or recommended courses of action to the leadership of an organization, based on wide ranges of available overt and covert information (intelligence).

There are two types of assessment;

In the beginning of the intelligence cycle, during the direction phase phase (also known as tasking or planning), intelligence officers assess past intelligence, identify gaps in information, and determine what new intelligence is needed.^[1]
Intelligence assessment also occurs toward the end of the intelligence cycle, during the analysis & production phase.^[2] This phase comes after collection and processing but before dissemination to policymakers.^[2]

Assessments develop in response to leadership declaration requirements to inform decision-making. Assessment may be executed on behalf of a state, military or commercial organisation with ranges of information sources available to each.

An intelligence assessment reviews available information and previous assessments for relevance and currency. Where there requires additional information, the analyst may direct some collection.

^ Warner, Michael (2014). "The Rise and Fall of Intelligence". JSTOR.
^ ^a ^b Lowenthal, Mark M. (2012). Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy. CQ Press. ISBN 978-1-60871-675-3.

[:1-1] Warner, Michael (2014). "The Rise and Fall of Intelligence". JSTOR.

[:0-2] Lowenthal, Mark M. (2012). Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy. CQ Press. ISBN 978-1-60871-675-3.

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