Measurement & Signature Intel (MASINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Imagery shows you the object. Measurement and signature intelligence tells you what the object is doing, how hot it is...
Intelligence Disciplines
Technical Intelligence (TECHINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every device carries a confession: certification filings, component markings, firmware strings and design choices. Technical intelligence reads that confession to...
Patent Intelligence (PATENTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A patent is a bargain: an inventor gets a monopoly, and the public gets the working details. That trade makes...
Academic Intelligence (ACADINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Research output is the earliest public indicator of national and corporate capability. A capability appears in a paper years before...
Legal Intelligence (LEGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Litigation is an involuntary disclosure engine. Adversaries in court say, under oath and on the public record, what they will...
Criminal Intelligence (CRIMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Criminal intelligence is not case notes with better formatting. It is the discipline that turns scattered incidents into an articulable...
Energy Intelligence (ENERGYINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Energy is where physics, contracts and politics meet, and all three leave records. Energy intelligence reads the flows and the...
News Intelligence (NEWSINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Reporting is evidence of what was published, by whom, when and sourced how. Treated that way it is one of...
Disinformation Intelligence (DISINFOINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
The finding is rarely that a claim is false. It is that a set of accounts, sites and outlets behaved...
Telephony Intelligence (TELINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A phone number is a routing address issued under a published plan, not a person. Telephony intelligence extracts everything the...
