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....
Maritime Intelligence
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...
GPS Coordinates: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Six decimal places is a doorstep. Two is a district. Precision in a coordinate is a decision about harm, not...
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...
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;...
RF & Signals Intel: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Aircraft over a whole region started reporting navigation integrity failures within the same hour. No one announced anything. The spectrum...
Maritime Piracy: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Piracy risk is not a map. It is a product of monsoon windows, mothership range, freeboard and speed, and how...
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....
Energy Security: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Two things tell you a country is in trouble before its ministers do: how fast its gas storage is emptying,...
Military & Defense: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Order of battle used to be a classified product. Now a unit's deployment is visible from insignia in a soldier's...
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...
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...
Drug Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A cluster of six overdoses in one town over a weekend is not a public health footnote. It is the...
