IFPC UPDATED 2026 EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) - ✔✔Information gathered from data transmissions,
including communications intelligence (COMINT), electronic intelligence (ELINT), and
foreign instrumentation signals intelligence (FISINT).
✔✔Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) - ✔✔Information produced by
quantitative and qualitative analysis of physical attributes of targets and events in order
to characterize and identify them.
✔✔Technical Intelligence (TECHINT) - ✔✔derived from the collection and analysis of
threat and foreign military equipment and associated materiel.
✔✔Challenge to multidiscipline collection - ✔✔the need to avoid an ad hoc approach
and to establish procedures beforehand that support tipping, hand-off, cross-cueing, or
retasking of one asset in support of another.
✔✔cross-cueing - ✔✔the passing of detection, geolocation and targeting information to
another sensor without human intervention.
✔✔Tipping - ✔✔refers to the use of one intelligence discipline, asset, or sensor type to
cross-cue or initiate collection by a more precise sensor
✔✔Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security - ✔✔Advisor to SecDef on
all intelligence, CI, and security, and other intelligence-related matters. The USD(I)
exercises SecDef's authority, direction, and control over the DOD agencies and DOD
field activities.
✔✔Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - ✔✔Largest producers of all-source national
security intelligence for senior U.S. policymakers. Primarily HUMINT collection.
✔✔Defense Intelligence Agency - ✔✔Collects, produces, and manages foreign military
intelligence for policymakers and the military commanders.
✔✔National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) - ✔✔Develops and operates unique and
innovative overhead reconnaissance systems and conducts intelligence-related
activities for national security
✔✔National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) - ✔✔Proceeds imagery, geospatial
and targeting analysis, along with image science and modeling for U.S. national
defense, disaster relief, and safety of navigation. GEOINT.
, ✔✔Army Intelligence (G-2) - ✔✔Responsible for policy formulation, planning,
programming, budgeting, management, staff supervision, evaluation, and oversight for
intelligence activities for the Department of the Army.
✔✔Air Force Intelligence - ✔✔Leading provider of finished intelligence derived from
airborne, space, and cyberspace sensors.
✔✔Coast Guard Intelligence (CGI) - ✔✔Provides timely, actionable, and relevant
intelligence to shape Coast Guard operations, planning, and decision-making, and to
support national and homeland security intelligence requirements.
✔✔Navy Intelligence - ✔✔Leading provider of maritime intelligence to Navy and
joint/combined warfighting forces, as well as national decision makers and other
partners/consumers in the U.S. National Intelligence Community.
✔✔Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA) - ✔✔Produces tactical and operational
intelligence for battlefield support.
✔✔DEA Office of National Security Intelligence (ONSI) - ✔✔Reduce the supply of
drugs, protect national security, and combat global terrorism.
✔✔FBI Intelligence Branch - ✔✔Drives collaboration to achieve the full integration of
intelligence and operations, and it proactively engages with the Bureau's partners
across the intelligence and law enforcement communities.
✔✔Department of Treasury Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA) - ✔✔OIA is
responsible for the receipt, analysis, collation, and dissemination of foreign intelligence
and foreign counterintelligence information related to the operation and responsibilities
of the Department of the Treasury.
✔✔DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) - ✔✔Promote understanding of threats
through intelligence analysis; Collect information and intelligence pertinent to homeland
security; Share information necessary for action; and Manage intelligence for the
homeland security enterprise.
✔✔DOE Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (IN) - ✔✔Assess worldwide
nuclear terrorism threats and nuclera counter-proliferation, and evaluating foreign
technology threats. Also provides energy information and technical expertise.
✔✔State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research - ✔✔Provides the Secretary
of State with timely, objective analysis of global developments as well as real-time
insights from all-source intelligence.
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) - ✔✔Information gathered from data transmissions,
including communications intelligence (COMINT), electronic intelligence (ELINT), and
foreign instrumentation signals intelligence (FISINT).
✔✔Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) - ✔✔Information produced by
quantitative and qualitative analysis of physical attributes of targets and events in order
to characterize and identify them.
✔✔Technical Intelligence (TECHINT) - ✔✔derived from the collection and analysis of
threat and foreign military equipment and associated materiel.
✔✔Challenge to multidiscipline collection - ✔✔the need to avoid an ad hoc approach
and to establish procedures beforehand that support tipping, hand-off, cross-cueing, or
retasking of one asset in support of another.
✔✔cross-cueing - ✔✔the passing of detection, geolocation and targeting information to
another sensor without human intervention.
✔✔Tipping - ✔✔refers to the use of one intelligence discipline, asset, or sensor type to
cross-cue or initiate collection by a more precise sensor
✔✔Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security - ✔✔Advisor to SecDef on
all intelligence, CI, and security, and other intelligence-related matters. The USD(I)
exercises SecDef's authority, direction, and control over the DOD agencies and DOD
field activities.
✔✔Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - ✔✔Largest producers of all-source national
security intelligence for senior U.S. policymakers. Primarily HUMINT collection.
✔✔Defense Intelligence Agency - ✔✔Collects, produces, and manages foreign military
intelligence for policymakers and the military commanders.
✔✔National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) - ✔✔Develops and operates unique and
innovative overhead reconnaissance systems and conducts intelligence-related
activities for national security
✔✔National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) - ✔✔Proceeds imagery, geospatial
and targeting analysis, along with image science and modeling for U.S. national
defense, disaster relief, and safety of navigation. GEOINT.
, ✔✔Army Intelligence (G-2) - ✔✔Responsible for policy formulation, planning,
programming, budgeting, management, staff supervision, evaluation, and oversight for
intelligence activities for the Department of the Army.
✔✔Air Force Intelligence - ✔✔Leading provider of finished intelligence derived from
airborne, space, and cyberspace sensors.
✔✔Coast Guard Intelligence (CGI) - ✔✔Provides timely, actionable, and relevant
intelligence to shape Coast Guard operations, planning, and decision-making, and to
support national and homeland security intelligence requirements.
✔✔Navy Intelligence - ✔✔Leading provider of maritime intelligence to Navy and
joint/combined warfighting forces, as well as national decision makers and other
partners/consumers in the U.S. National Intelligence Community.
✔✔Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA) - ✔✔Produces tactical and operational
intelligence for battlefield support.
✔✔DEA Office of National Security Intelligence (ONSI) - ✔✔Reduce the supply of
drugs, protect national security, and combat global terrorism.
✔✔FBI Intelligence Branch - ✔✔Drives collaboration to achieve the full integration of
intelligence and operations, and it proactively engages with the Bureau's partners
across the intelligence and law enforcement communities.
✔✔Department of Treasury Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA) - ✔✔OIA is
responsible for the receipt, analysis, collation, and dissemination of foreign intelligence
and foreign counterintelligence information related to the operation and responsibilities
of the Department of the Treasury.
✔✔DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) - ✔✔Promote understanding of threats
through intelligence analysis; Collect information and intelligence pertinent to homeland
security; Share information necessary for action; and Manage intelligence for the
homeland security enterprise.
✔✔DOE Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (IN) - ✔✔Assess worldwide
nuclear terrorism threats and nuclera counter-proliferation, and evaluating foreign
technology threats. Also provides energy information and technical expertise.
✔✔State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research - ✔✔Provides the Secretary
of State with timely, objective analysis of global developments as well as real-time
insights from all-source intelligence.
