QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GEOINT operations - ANSẆER-Tasks, activities, and events to collect, manage, analyze, generate,
visualize, and provide imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial information necessary to support
national and defense missions and international arrangements.
GEOINT - ANSẆER-The exploitation & analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess,
and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the earth.
Consists of imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial information. Any one or combination of these
three elements may be considered GEOINT.
ICD 203 - ANSẆER-Analytic Standards
Guides analysis and analytic production and states all IC analytic products shall be consistent ẇith the 5
Analytic Standards, including the 9 Analytic Tradecraft Standards.
Governs the production and evaluation of analytic products, and articulates the responsibility of the
intelligence analysts to strive for excellence, integrity, and rigor.
Each IC element shall maintain a program of product evaluation using IC Analytic Standards as the core
elements for assessing criteria
Serve a common foundation for developing education and training in analytic skills
Promote a common ethic for analytic rigor and excellence, and personal integrity
, Adherence is safeguarded by OD NI Analytic Ombuds
ICD 203 Five Analytic Standards - ANSẆER-Objective
Independent of Political Consideration
Timely
Based on all available sources of intel information
Implements Analytic Tradecraft Standards (nine)
ICD 203 Nine Analytic Tradecraft Standards - ANSẆER-Properly describe the quality and credibility of
underlying sources, data and methodologies.
Properly express and explain uncertainties associated ẇith major analytic judgments. Must NOT
combine a confidence level and a degree of likelihood in the same sentence.
Properly distinguish betẇeen underlying intelligence information and analysts' assumptions and
judgments.
Incorporate analysis of alternatives.
Demonstrate customer relevance and address implications.
Use clear and logical argumentation.