DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE DEFINITIONS
1. All-Source Analysis: An intelligence activity involving the integration, evaluation, and interpretation of information from all available data sources and types, to include HUMINT, SIGINT, MASINT, GEOINT, OSINT, and CI.
2. Defense Intelligence: The term “Defense Intelligence” refers to the integrated Departmental intelligence that covers the broad aspects of national policy and national security and that intelligence relating to capabilities, intentions, and activities of foreign powers, organizations, or persons, including any foreign military or military-related situation or activity which is significant to Defense policy-making or the planning and conduct of military operations and activities. Defense Intelligence includes Active and Reserve military, strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence.
3.DDefense Intelligence Components: The term “Defense Intelligence Components” refers to all DoD organizations that perform intelligence and intelligence-related functions. Those organizations include: the DIA; the NGA; the NRO; the National Security Agency/Central Security Service; and the intelligence elements of the Active and Reserve components of the Military Departments.
4. GDIP: The GDIP is an integrated capability, and the Director, DIA, serves as the Program Manager. The GDIP is part of the NIP, as defined in E.O. 12333. The GDIP is an integrated Defense Intelligence capability that includes DIA, the Service technical production centers, and special collection activities. The GDIP integrates and produces National Intelligence for Defense and national consumers. It represents the national Defense Intelligence priorities for operational customers, national and Defense-wide collection management, All-Source Analysis, HUMINT, MASINT, IT, and Special Activities. The GDIP may include other NIP activities as agreed between the Secretary of Defense and the DNI.
5. IIntelligence Planning Process: The intelligence component of Adaptive Planning. It is a process that integrates, synchronizes, prioritizes, and focuses DoD Intelligence (both theater and national) on achieving the supported commander’s operational objectives and desired effects during all phases of an OPLAN or concept plan. Additionally, the process identifies knowledge gaps and capability shortfalls within DoD Intelligence.
6. Military Intelligence: The term “Military Intelligence” refers to the collection, analysis, production, and dissemination of information relating to any foreign military or military-related situation or activity that is significant to military policy-making or the planning and conduct of military operations and activities.
National Intelligence: The term “National Intelligence” refers to all intelligence, regardless of the source from which derived, and including information gathered within or outside the United States that pertains, as determined consistent with any guidance issued by the President, to more than one United States Government Agency, and that involves threats to the United States, its people, property, or interests; the development, proliferation, or use of weapons of mass destruction; or any other matter bearing on United States national or homeland security.
ACRONYM TERM ACAT Acquisition
Category AT Antiterrorism
CI Counterintelligence
CIA Central
Intelligence Agency COA Course
of Action COCOM Combatant
Command CSA Combat
Support Agency DA&M Director
of Administration and Management DCIP Defense
Critical Infrastructure Program DDI Director
of Defense Intelligence DHM Defense
Human Intelligence Manager DIA Defense
Intelligence Agency DIOCC Defense Intelligence Operations
Coordination Center DNI Director
of National Intelligence DoD Department
of Defense DoD CIFA Department
of Defense Counterintelligence Field Activity DTSA Defense
Technology Security Administration E.O. Executive
Order EXORD Execute
Order FCIP Foreign
Counterintelligence Program FMP Foreign
Materiel Program GDIP General
Defense Intelligence Program GEOINT Geospatial
Intelligence HUMINT Human
Intelligence IC Intelligence
Community ISR Intelligence,
Surveillance, and Reconnaissance IT Information
Technology J-2 Joint
Staff Intelligence Directorate JFCC ISR Joint
Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance, and
Reconnaissance JIOC Joint Intelligence Operations
Center JIVU Joint
Intelligence Virtual University JMAS Joint Military Attaché
School JMITC Joint Military Intelligence
Training Center JRIP Joint
Reserve Intelligence Program JROC Joint
Requirements Oversight Council JWICS Joint
Worldwide Intelligence Communications System LMS Learning
Management System MASINT Measurement
and Signature Intelligence MDA
Milestone Decision Authority MIB Military
Intelligence Board MIP Military
Intelligence Program MOA Memorandum
of Agreement NDIC National Defense Intelligence
College NGA National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency NIC-C National Intelligence Coordination
Center NIP National
Intelligence Program NIST National
Intelligence Support Team NRO National
Reconnaissance Office NSA National
Security Agency NSA/CSS National
Security Agency/Central Security Service ODNI Office
of the Director of National Intelligence OPLAN Operation
Plan OPM Office
of Personnel Management OSD Office
of the Secretary of Defense OSINT Open-Source
Intelligence SCI Sensitive
Compartmented Information SCG Security
Cooperation Guidance SIGINT Signals
Intelligence UCP Unified
Command Plan U.S.C. United States Code USD(I) Under
Secretary of Defense for Intelligence USSTRATCOM United States Strategic
Command WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction