GRADED A+
✔✔ICD 208 Six Principles - ✔✔Know Your Customers and What They Need
Write for Tailored Reuse
Products must be discoverable by those who might need them
Tradecraft Essential, Not Expendable
Timely electronic dissemination is always the goal
Train to Think of Customers Inclusively; Write Differently
✔✔DIA - ✔✔Provides & manages foreign military intelligence to warfighters, defense
policymakers, and force planners
Produces & uses GEOINT products and services to support all-source analysis
Manages MIDB and the Joint Reserve Intelligence Program (JRIP) which provides
manpower and support to GEOINT operations.
✔✔NGA - ✔✔Primary source for GEOINT analysis and products at the national level
✔✔NSG - ✔✔Combination of technology, policies, capabilities, doctrine, activities,
people, data, and organizations necessary to produce GEOINT in an integrated multi-
intelligence, multi-security domain environment. Its mission is to create an integrated,
collaborative community of common practice promoting the GEOINT discipline across a
diverse group of producers and consumers. It consists of members and partners that
produce and employ GEOINT across the full range of national, military, and civil
domains.
Develops standardized TTPs for GEOINT personnel.
Describe the U.S. Government community, capabilities, assets, and other aspects of
GEOINT that support U.S. national security decision making and U.S. military
operations.
Is established in both national Intelligence Community and DoD GEOINT doctrine.
Community consists of Members and Partners.
✔✔NSG member common tasks - ✔✔Analyze
Assess
Predict
, ✔✔GEOINT Program of Analysis (GPoA) - ✔✔A system for analytic resource planning
execution across the GEOINT enterprise.
✔✔Geospatial Analysis - ✔✔Process of applying analytical techniques to
geographically referenced data sets to extract or generate new geographical information
or insight.
Science of extracting meaning from geospatial data and using GIS to uncover and
investigate relationships and patterns in all forms of geospatial data to answer
intelligence or military issues.
A scientific discipline that brings physical and human geography together in a digital
environment in order to solve problems with regard to spatial analysis, physiography,
socio-cultural aspects, and temporal relationships.
✔✔Geospatial Data Management - ✔✔A tradecraft involving management of the
development, approval, and population of geospatial data within NGA's
feature/geospatial information database to ensure that it can be used to satisfy
customer requirements. Requires knowledge of the wide range of products and a solid
understanding of the capabilities of various systems used to support the extraction,
analysis, and finishing of in-house, co-production, commodity, and contract data.
✔✔Geospatial Information - ✔✔Information that identifies the geographic location and
characteristics of natural or constructed features and boundaries on the earth and
includes: statistical data; information derived from, among other things, remote sensing,
mapping, and surveying technologies; and mapping, charting, geodetic data, and
related products.
✔✔Geospatial Information and Services (GI&S) - ✔✔Collection, information extraction,
storage, dissemination, and exploitation of geodetic, geomagnetic, imagery, gravimetric,
aeronautical, topographic, hydrographic, littoral, cultural, and toponymic data accurately
referenced to a precise location on the Earth's surface.
✔✔GEOINT Discipline - ✔✔Includes systems, processes, and products; skilled
professionals and their specialized tradecraft areas. Encompasses all activities involved
in the planning, collection, processing, analysis, exploitation, and dissemination of
spatial information in order to gain intelligence about the national security or operational
environment, visually depict this knowledge, and fuse the acquired knowledge with
other information through analysis and visualization processes.
✔✔GEOINT Tradecraft - ✔✔Application of skills, technology, techniques, leadership,
continuing education, mentoring, special experiences, and knowledge of GEOINT in
one or more occupational specialties.