Radio Callsign: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A callsign is a licensed identity broadcast in the clear. Few identifiers are simultaneously regulated, globally unique and publicly indexed....
Logistics Intelligence
Flight Number / Route: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A flight number is a marketing label. The aircraft underneath it is the thing that actually moved, and it keeps...
Aircraft: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An aircraft carries three identities at once: what is painted on the tail, what the transponder broadcasts, and who actually...
Vessel / Ship: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A ship can change its name, its flag and its owner in a week. The IMO number assigned at build...
Shipping Container: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Eleven characters follow a steel box from a factory yard to a customs hold. The check digit tells you in...
Shipment / Bill of Lading: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A bill of lading names the shipper, the consignee and the goods on the same page. It is the closest...
HS Commodity Code: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Six digits decide the tariff, the licence and the level of scrutiny. Getting them wrong is how controlled goods travel...
Location / Coordinates: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A place name is not a point. It is a claim about where something happened, carrying a resolution, a source...
Sanction / Watchlist Entry: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A sanctions hit is not an answer. It is a name, a legal basis and a programme code telling you...
Company / Organization: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Companies are how money, liability and control get organised. Follow the entity and you find the people who preferred not...
National ID Number: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A national ID number is the closest thing that exists to a primary key for a human being. It is...
Vehicle Intelligence (VEHINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A vehicle is a seventeen-character identifier attached to an engine. Decode it properly and you get the plant, the year,...
Supply Chain Intelligence (SUPPLYINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
You do not have one supply chain. You have a tree of dependencies you have never enumerated, and your real...
Maritime Intelligence (MARINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Ships are legally required to announce themselves. The interesting behaviour is what happens in the minutes after a vessel stops...
Logistics Intelligence (LOGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Goods leave a paper trail long before they leave the warehouse. Customs declarations, manifests and trade statistics describe physical movement...
Aviation Intelligence (AVINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
An aircraft broadcasts its identity and position to anyone with a twenty-dollar receiver. The intelligence is not in the position;...
Aviation Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A cargo operator with three aircraft filed forty-one flights in a month, all into the same two airports, all with...
Maritime Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The vessel reported itself in the Gulf of Oman. Radar put it alongside a sanctioned tanker four hundred miles away....
Food & Agricultural Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The famine is declared months after the data said it was coming. Vegetation anomaly, staple price, and the first export...
Border Security & Migration: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A migration surge rarely begins at the border. It begins weeks earlier in a Telegram price list, a change in...
Supply Chain Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
You do not have one supply chain. You have a graph nobody has ever drawn. The compromise usually enters at...
Sanctions Evasion: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Sanctions evasion leaves a documentary shadow: a new intermediary in a familiar corridor, a vessel that stops transmitting for eleven...
Counterfeiting & IP Crime: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A counterfeit is not a bad copy. It is a parallel supply chain with real factories, freight forwarders, payment processors...
Wildlife Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A container declared as plastic scrap weighing four tonnes more than plastic scrap should weigh is the whole case. The...
Weapons Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Most weapons in an illicit market were legal once. The investigative question is not where the gun came from but...
