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Intelligence Cycle: The steps by which information is converted into intelligence and made
available to users. The cycle has been described as including five steps: planning and direction,
collection, processing, production, and dissemination. Evaluation, although generally assumed,
is a sixth step in the cycle that is considered essential.
Intelligence Estimate: An analysis of a situation, development, or trend that identifies its major
elements, interprets the significance, and appraises the future possibilities and the prospective
results of the various actions that might be taken. (See National Intelligence Estimate.)
Intelligence Information: Unevaluated material that may be used in the production
of intelligence.
Intelligence-Led Policing: The dynamic use of intelligence to guide operational law enforcement
activities to targets, commodities, or threats for both tactical responses and strategic
decisionmaking for resource allocation and/or strategic responses.
Intelligence Mission: The role that the intelligence function of an agency fulfills in support of
the overall mission of the agency; it specifies in general language what the function is intended
to accomplish.
Intelligence Needs: Intelligence requirements not being addressed in current intelligence
activities to support customers and missions.
Intelligence Officer: A professional employee of an intelligence organization engaged in
intelligence activities.
Intelligence Products: Reports or documents that contain assessments, forecasts, associations,
links, and other outputs from the analytic process.
Intelligence Requirement: Any subject, general or specific, for which there is a need to collect
intelligence information or to produce intelligence.