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Types of Intelligence Requirements<br />

Having thus developed an understanding of customer needs, the intelligence service<br />

may proactively and continuously generate intelligence collection and production requirements<br />

to maintain customer-focused operations. Examples of such internally generated<br />

specifications include analyst-driven, events-driven, and scheduled requirements. The<br />

table below briefly describes them. 44<br />

Table 4. Types of Producer-Generated Intelligence Collection<br />

and Production Requirements<br />

Source: Hulnick<br />

Analyst-driven Based on knowledge of customer and issues<br />

Events-driven In response to time-sensitive relevant events<br />

Scheduled Periodic activities to document and update target status<br />

Further distinctions among intelligence requirements include timeliness and scope, or<br />

level, of intended use. Timeliness of requirements is established to meet standing (longterm)<br />

and ad hoc (short-term) needs. When the customer and intelligence service agree to<br />

define certain topics as long-term intelligence issues, they generate a standing requirement<br />

to ensure that a regular production effort can, and will, be maintained against that<br />

target. The customer will initiate an ad hoc requirement upon realizing a sudden shortterm<br />

need for a specific type of intelligence, and will specify the target of interest, the<br />

coverage timeframe, and the type of output desired.<br />

The scope or level of intended use of the intelligence may be characterized as strategic<br />

or tactical. Strategic intelligence is geared to a policymaker dealing <strong>with</strong> big-picture<br />

issues affecting the mission and future of an organization: the U.S. President, corporate<br />

executives, high-level diplomats, or military commanders of major commands or fleets.<br />

Tactical intelligence serves players and decisionmakers “on the ground” engaged in current<br />

operations: trade negotiators, marketing and sales representatives, deployed military<br />

units, or product developers.<br />

Table 5. Types of Customer-Defined Intelligence Requirements<br />

Source: Author<br />

Timeliness Short-term (ad hoc) Long-term (standing)<br />

Scope Broad (strategic) Narrow (tactical)<br />

44 Adapted from Arthur S. Hulnick, “Managing Intelligence Analysis: Strategies for Playing the End Game,”<br />

International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 2, No. 3 (Fall 1988): 327.<br />

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