intelligence collection

Definition/Scope: Acquiring information based on intelligence requirements and providing this information for processing and the production and dissemination of intelligence.

Used For:

collection (intelligence)
information gathering (intelligence)

Broader Terms:

intelligence cycles
tactical site exploitation

Narrower Terms:

area assessment
collection and jamming
collection management
counterintelligence collection
cueing (intelligence)
data acquisition
document exploitation
Echelon (intelligence)
interview
low-level source operations
merchant intelligence
multi-intelligence sources
photographic intelligence
reconnaissance
requirements management (intelligence)
sensitive site exploitation
specific orders and requests
statements of intelligence interest
tactical questioning

Related Terms:

agent authentication
AN/USD-9
assets (intelligence)
captured enemy materiel
Carnivore (computer software)
clandestine operation
counterintelligence
covert operation
double agent
dual agent
evidence collection
intelligence dissemination
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
interrogation
multispectral thermal imagers
overt operations
priority national intelligence objectives
safe houses
special agent
Subject Matter Expert
surveillance
tactics, techniques, and procedures