1N7 Air Force

Mission is to provide combat credible military forces needed to deter war and protect the security of our nation

Addresses the need to counter revisionist states that are challenging international norms as well as violent extremist organizations that are undermining transregional security

Translates the United States Air Force's 30-year strategy, America's Air Force: A Call to the Future, into comprehensive guidance, goals, and objectives

The Air Force's overarching force development concept. It describes how future Air Force (AF) forces will provide responsive and effective Global Vigilance—Global Reach—Global Power in light of the anticipated future strategic and operational environment.

This directive promulgates policy and establishes responsibilities for setting the national intelligence priorities and translating them into action

Sets forth national security priorities, the ________ provides the IC with the mission direction of the DNI for the next four to five years

Space is vital to the national security of the United States and its allies. As the space environment evolves, we are faced with new opportunities and new challenges. The current and future strategic space environment is driven by three trends - space is becoming increasingly congested, contested, and competitive.

The 10 COMs

The 12 MAJCOMs

A command echelon that resides directly under a MAJCOM

Composed of personnel from each of the five armed services that assists the CJCS and Vice-CJCS in discharging their responsibilities and is managed by the Director of the Join Staff, who is a lieutenant general or navy vice admiral

Headed by the Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF), the _______ organizational structure is patterned on the JS structure to improve communication with other DoD organizations.

The Air Staff and their roles

Serves as the head of the U.S. Intelligence Community, overseeing and directing the implementation of the National Intelligence Program (NIP).

The Twenty-Fifth Air Force (25 AF) provides multisource intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) products, applications, capabilities and resources, to include cyber and geospatial forces and expertise.

Executes mission command of operational intelligence and security forces; conducts and synchronizes worldwide multi-discipline and all-source intelligence and security operations. Army

Collecting intelligence through human sources and by other appropriate means. Has no police, subpoena, or law enforcement powers or internal security functions

Provides military intelligence to warfighters, defense policymakers and force planners in the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community in support of U.S. military planning and operations, and weapon systems acquisition. Skilled in military history and doctrine, economics, physics, chemistry, world history, political science, bio-sciences, and computer sciences to name a few.

Responsible for all intelligence and counterintelligence activities throughout the complex, including nearly 30 offices nationwide. The Office protects vital national security information and technologies, representing intellectual property of incalculable value

Equips with the timely intelligence and information it needs to keep the homeland safe, secure, and resilient.

Primary mission is to harness intelligence to serve U.S. diplomacy.

Advances national security and protects financial integrity by informing Treasury decisions with timely, relevant, and accurate intelligence and analysis.

Responsible for enforcing the controlled substance laws and regulations of the United States.

An intelligence-driven and threat-focused national security organization with both intelligence and law enforcement responsibilities.

Provides commanders at every level seamless, tailored, timely, and mission-essential intelligence and to ensure this intelligence is integrated into the operational planning process

Delivers world-class geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, warfighters, intelligence professionals, and first responders.

U.S. Government agency in charge of designing, building, launching, and maintaining America's intelligence satellites.

Leads the U.S. Government in cryptology that encompasses both Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Information Assurance (IA) products and services, and enables Computer Network Operations in order to gain a decision advantage for the nation and our allies under all circumstances.

Collects, analyzes, and produces relevant maritime intelligence and disseminates that intelligence rapidly to key strategic, operational, and tactical decision-makers to meet Navy, Department of Defense, and national requirements

Internal staff offices execute the administrative functions of the ODNI, including management of the ODNI Program within the NIP.

GEOINT Components

HUMINT Components

SIGINT Components

MASINT Components

OSINT Components

Intelligence derived from the collection, processing, analysis, and exploitation of data and information pertaining to foreign equipment and materiel for the purposes of preventing technological surprise, assessing foreign scientific and technical capabilities, and developing countermeasures designed to neutralize an adversary's technological advantages.

Encompasses five functions (collection, analysis and production, investigations, operations, and functional services) conducted to identify, deceive, exploit, disrupt, or protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations, or persons, or their agents, or international terrorist organizations or activities

The Air Force Specialties (9)

Operates, evaluates, and manages airborne signals intelligence information systems and operations activities and related ground processing activities. Performs identification, acquisition, recording, translating, analyzing, and reporting of assigned voice communications. Provides signals intelligence threat warning support and interfaces with other units. Performs and assists in mission planning. Maintains publications and currency items. Maintains and supervises communication nets. Transcribes, processes, and conducts follow-up analysis of assigned communications.

Flies as primary aircrew onboard a wide variety of aircraft to operate, evaluate and manage airborne ISR information and related ground processing systems. Performs identification, acquisition, recording, analysis and reporting of assigned ISR tasks. Provides ISR threat warning support and interfaces with other units. Performs and assists with mission planning. Maintains assigned publications and currency items. Participates in theater and tactical-level ISR coordination networks. Processes, analyzes and disseminates ISR information obtained from onboard sensors during missions in progress

Performs/manages intelligence activities/functions including discovering, developing, evaluating, providing, and disseminating intelligence information

Manages, supervises, and performs intelligence activities and functions including planning, collection, analysis, exploitation, development, and dissemination of multi-sensor geospatial and target intelligence products to support war fighting operations and other activities.

Acquires, processes, identifies, analyzes, and reports on electromagnetic emissions. Operates electronic equipment and computer systems to exploit signals intelligence production efforts.

The difference between 1N2X1A and 1N2X1C

Employs foreign language skills to collect, transcribe, translate, analyze, and report intelligence information

Performs and manages intelligence analysis activities/functions in all domains. Analyzes and exploits intelligence information, develops targets, and provides situational awareness for operations personnel and key leadership. Conducts research and develops assessments of adversarial actions and intentions. Drafts and disseminates long-term and time-sensitive intelligence reports to consumers worldwide

Collects and reports intelligence information obtained from human sources in response to requirements. Screens documents and open source materials to identify potential source leads. Assesses, debriefs, and interrogates sources in English.

Manages, supervises, and performs targeting intelligence activities and functions including analyzing targets. In addition, develops targeting solutions and evaluates effects in support of planning and execution of an effects based approach to operations that achieves the commander's objectives.

The domains which ISR focus

The 4 levels of planning detail for contingency plans

Is a nontransferable command authority, exercised only by commanders of unified or specified COCOMs unless otherwise directed by the President or the SECDEF.

The authority to perform functions of command over subordinate forces involving organizing and employing commands and forces, assigning tasks, designating objectives, and giving authoritative direction necessary to accomplish the mission.

Process identifies adversary and other relevant actor centers of gravity (COGs) and determines their capabilities to operate within the operational environment (OE).

The 4 steps of the JIPOE process

The 7 steps involved in defining the operational environment

The 3 Levels of War

6 Stages of the Joint Targeting Cycle