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BRIEF
Identify a preliminary development, data release, or incident of significance that impacts a specific area of operation or valued condition. Then collect information from multiple sources. If the precursory review indicates relevance, process the data by isolating keypoints, analyzing the totality of knowns/unknowns, and producing a concise product that informs and assesses.
Identify a Need
Identify a Development, Data Release, or Incident (DDI) that could affect an Area of Operation (AO) or the Safety/Sustainability (SS) relevant to the recipient of the intelligence product.
An AO is where you live, work, or frequent, while the SS relates to the rights, freedoms, security, sustenances, finances, resources, and stability valued. If there is low confidence (or more) that the DDI could directly or indirectly impact the recipient’s AO or SS, further collection should be conducted.
[Prepare a product that answers the “5-Ws” and “How,” if relevant.]
Information to Include
Product should include
– the date/time of DDI occurrence (or discovery, if the DDI wasn’t immediately revealed)
– location of DDI
– concise description of DDI using only known facts (approximations can be made if clearly indicated with high confidence).
[This sections addresses the When, What, Where, and in some cases How]
Analyze Your Information
Analyze the known information. You will want to
– determine the reliability of source (Identity of Source, Past Verified Information)
– assess for context, relevance, & significance of DDI to the AO/SS
– develop a comprehension of vital information (impact, quantity, involvement, reactions, response, outcome)
Incorporate analysis into the product and provide a separate summary that expresses the significance of the DDI to the AO/SS.
[This section addresses the Why, in some cases the How, and in most cases the “So What”.
Provide an intelligence briefing that combines collected information with your assessment.
Note:
Refer to the ???? Grayman Briefing Classified (GBC) service for an example of how DDIs are covered. In the GBC format, the focus is on brevity and non-debatable facts in the up-front product known as the “Briefing”. In the follow up segment, labeled as the “Debrief”, analysis and subjective assessments are made. The facts first followed by an analyst comment is the GBC’s style but you can alter the format to fit your target audience and dissemination medium. The information shared in this article is not necessarily adapted from any military or alphabet’s agencies formats, it’s simply a variant we’ve found to be reliable.
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