Intelligence And Homeland Security

To respond to government leaders’ requirements and questions, the collecting, analyzing, and distributing of intelligence information must occur. However, intelligence is a comprehensive term that involves these following which are, analyzing, collecting, production of sensitive information to support national security leaders, such as policymakers, military commanders and Members of Congress. Specifically, the intelligence community provides insight on the important issues through collecting intelligence, data analyzing context, and providing customers with timely relevant products at all national security level; from the White House down to the military at war. Indeed, it’s true that intelligence is central to everything DHS does; and intelligence

Operating in various countries with the use of multiple forms of intelligence has been extremely useful for the US military intelligence branches (Greenberg, 2009). These multiple forms of intelligence include but not limited to Human Intelligence (HUMINT), Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT), Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), Strategic Intelligence (STRATINT), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Technical Intelligence (TECHINT). Equally important, the Department of the homeland security primary mission is to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce the US vulnerability to terrorism and minimize the damage and recovery from terrorist attacks when it occurs. Notably, since 2003 DHS has had inception intelligence component; for example, the DHS Act of 2002, assigned the intelligence component to the DHS (Carter & Carter, 2009). Also, they have the responsibility to integrate law enforcement, analyze, and provide intelligence information to identify and assess the nature and the level of terrorist threats to the homeland, detect and identify terrorism threats against the