...Chris Fagin SCTY 385: Intelligence Analysis, Writing, and Briefing FINAL EXAM—SPRING 2008 50 Questions—3 points each (150 points total / 15% of final grade) 1. With respect to intelligence requirements and the National Security Council, who is the final adjudicator within the intelligence community for collection requirements on the National Level? a. President of the United States b. Secretary of Defense c. Secretary of State d. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) e. Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) 2. Identify the “stakeholders” for the target-centric process. a. Collectors, Processors, Analysts, Force Modernization Staff b. Collectors, Processors, Policy Makers, Force Modernization Staff c. Collectors, Processors, Investigators, Policy Makers d. Processors, Analysts, Force Modernization Staff, Policy Makers e. None of the above 3. What are the 3 major components of a “system?” a. Structure, Function, Endstate b. Structure, Function, Process c. Structure, Process, Endstate d. Definition, Function, Process e. Definition, Process, Endstate 4. What is the purpose of a “Normative Model?” The purpose is to describe a best or preferable course of action. 5. Identify the major shortcoming of the traditional intelligence cycle. The traditional Intelligence Cycle is different because...
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...Intelligence Testing Article Analysis PSY 450 May 21, 2012 Joseph Gaines Intelligence Testing Article Analysis In earlier years many of the intelligence test that had been developed were culturally biased. The early intelligence test favored people that were from urban areas and not people from rural areas. The early intelligence test also favored people who were of the middle class status and not those of the lower class status. The earlier intelligence test also favored people who were white rather than people who were black. In this paper the author will review several different articles that are related to intelligence testing. The definition of intelligence may vary among the different cultures (Rogoff, 1990). An example of the differences among cultures and the way they view intelligence is European Americans think of intelligence in technical skills terms whereas people that are from Kenya consider intelligence to be someone who is an active participant in family and social life. Another example of the way culture views intelligence is people from Uganda view someone as being intelligent if they know the right thing to do and then they follow through with the right actions. Another example is the of the variations on how intelligence is viewed from culture to culture is the latmu people that are from Papua New Guinea, they believe people who have the ability to remember 10, 000 to 20,000 clans as intelligent. The people of the Carolina Island people believe that...
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...Intelligence Testing Article Analysis PSY/450, 2014 Intelligence Testing Article Analysis Mapping out the definition of intelligence is not a simple task, it is an ambiguous term that has a variety of definitions. When defining intelligence there appears to be common ground in phrases such as one’s ability to acquire knowledge, ‘he ability to solve problems, or the ability to understand and follow instructions. There are many more phrases and terms that one associates with intelligence, and this may be in part because, the differences of defining intelligence may lie in the fact that questions for evaluating intelligence may not have the same connotation in differing cultures. Shiraev and Levy state that intelligence is the necessary factor that allows an organism to adapt to its surroundings, a way of understanding one’s world (Shiraev, 2010). Along with understanding one’s world, intelligence allows one to make and complete goals, and overcome obstacles that may come into one’s life. This understanding of intelligence sets a good basis for understanding and defining intelligence, however, a do develop a greater understanding it is necessary to study the different theoretical testing of intelligence. This review will also examine the effectiveness of these various theories. Multiple Intelligence Theory In the late 1980’s Howard Gardner introduces a different viewpoint to the traditional theories of intelligence. He did this by including, language, logical-math, spatial...
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...Intelligence Article Analysis Paper PSY 450 November 4, 2013 Intelligence Article Analysis Paper Intelligence Testing and Theories Intelligence measuring is important for individuals for various reasons. Testing intelligence throughout the years has changed. People change and not the same factors can determine one’s intelligence. The majority of individuals who take intelligence testing are for placement, such as children starting school, college, and employment. Children for example, take testing, and evaluations to see what cognitive development level the child is at and to see if that child meets the basic standard for that age group (Benson, 2003). Intelligence testing determines the level for college students, and adults, such as entering college, and employee candidates for job placement. Today in society there are several testing options for intelligence, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), Standford-Binet Intelligence Scale, and College Admission Test (SAT), (Benson, 2003). The American Psychological Association uses the intelligent intelligence approach for testing, as other professionals do. The intelligence testing determines effectiveness, and analyzes theories in this paper. Intelligence Testing Theories Intelligence testing is determined through a series of tests and evaluations. The evaluations are administered first to determine what type of testing is acquired. College student entering college must take a SAT test first before entering college...
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...Business Intelligence: Business intelligence (BI) is a technology-driven process for analyzing data and presenting actionable information to help corporate executives, business managers and other end users make more informed business decisions. Business intelligence tools are a type of application software designed to retrieve, analyze, transform and report data for business intelligence. The tools generally read data that have been previously stored, often, though not necessarily, in a data warehouse or data mart. BI Tools Analyzed: When preparing the analysis of the business intelligence tools, I made a personal preference of analyzing the tools leading in the Gartner chart, and that these tools must have efficient service and customer usage. The 5 business intelligence tools which I have selected are as follows: 1. IBM Cognos Link: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/cognos/ 2. Oracle BI 12c Link: http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/business-analytics/business-intelligence/foundation-suite/overview/index.html 3. SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform Link: http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/intellplatform/index.html#intell92 4. Microsoft SQL Server + MS SharePoint Server Link: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee210689(v=sql.105).aspx 5. MicroStrategy Link: http://www.microstrategy.com/us Criteria used for Evaluation: I have researched for multiple criteria and then grouped them into 5 main groups based...
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...Unit 5 Midterm Project By: Taria Davis CJ220: Intro to Criminal Intelligence Analysis Professor Chet Effler August 18, 2012 CityPlus Insurance has several injured parties that are seeing a specific group of chiropractors. These parties are claiming to have soft tissue injuries. CityPlus would like for us to investigate these claims because they believe them to be fraudulent. CityPlus has already done most of the fact finding on this case for us. This will be a big help when the team arrives and starts analyzing the data. Now we need to focus on the information that CityPlus has provided. Now we need to put together a team of skilled analysts. Once the team has been assembled it will be time to get organized. A record of the facts will have to be kept and maintained throughout the length of the investigation. The team also will need to be informed about the attorneys that are involved in the case. No items can be overlooked during the investigation due to the scrutiny that we will be under. All the information needs to be put into categories, such as vehicle information, witnesses, and victims. There also needs to be a category for the date, time, and location of the accidents. These will help organize all of the information that has and will be gathered. Each person and item involved will offer valuable information. Once all of this information is categorized the team will be able to start seeing a pattern. These patterns will help strengthen the...
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...he United States today is becoming more and more dependent upon technological developments to gather intelligence. The "secret agents" of yesterday are very close to being obsolete. With technology becoming the prime source of intelligence gathering, there is an assumption that other countries are gathering intelligence in similar ways. The only way to combat intelligence gathering against the United States is to know what technological intelligence collection resources are being used for gathering information. This is the job of Multidisciplinary Counterintelligence (MDCI). How does the government know that lines are secure from signals intelligence of foreign adversaries? One of the main tasks of MDCI is the "communication line" of the American Government. Radio waves can easily be detected with the right equipment anywhere within the area, and even microwaves can be detected with a receiver in the right place. MDCI combats these problems with encryption for messages and secure lines for voice communication. The encryption process is found on the governments SIPRnet web, which is used for the transfer of classified information only. For voice communications, the government uses secured lines that will scramble communications into meaningless sounds or scratches. The only problem with these types of devices is that they cannot be located just anywhere and can be very expensive to maintain; furthermore, facilities must be able to support these classified mediums. With all...
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...Mini Cases NWM: I believe the software system that best supports the company’s strategy is the “knowledge base and network” management system. The organizations mission is to “Help Clients Achieve Financial Security over a Lifetime.” The description they give for the path of getting there is as follows: “They want to leverage the traditional strengths of customer relationships, expert advice and strong product value to become the premier company helping clients achieve lifelong financial security. They will add specialists that will enable the traditional life insurance sales force to draw upon product and investment experts as needed to address clients increasing complex financial security needs. The knowledge base and networking system will “enable agents to examine the knowledge base for simple issues and bring in (virtually) financial product experts as needed when advising clients.” This system fits perfectly into the balanced scorecard. Under financial, the company wants to manage operating expenses. By only utilizing financial product experts when they are needed, this will allow the company to control costs for their services. Within the customer section of the scorecard, they want to provide expert guidance and needs-based planning. With the knowledge and networking system, they can tailor their approach to each customer individually to provide the best customer service. Under Process, they want to enhance representative productivity. Again, the knowledge and...
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...Session 2 The Intelligence Process Information is material of every description, including that derived from observations, surveillance, reports, rumors, and other sources. The information itself may be true or false, accurate or inaccurate, confirmed or unconfirmed, relevant or irrelevant. Although the intelligence process requires that information be stored, organized, and retrieved, the production of intelligence requires much more. Intelligence is the product resulting from the collection, evaluation and interpretation of information. Thus, intelligence can be viewed as information to which something has been added. The something added is the result of analysis—an explanation of what the information means. Intelligence may be general or specialized in nature. General intelligence focuses on a broad range of criminal activities, typically in smaller agencies or jurisdictions. Specialized intelligence focuses on a particular type of criminal activity or entity, such as narcotics, industrial espionage, or organized crime. Intelligence has both tactical and strategic applications. Tactical intelligence is directed towards a short term law enforcement objective or active case, with an immediate impact in mind—arrest, forfeiture, seizure. Strategic intelligence deals with larger, more long-term issues and goals, such as the identification of major criminal individuals or syndicates, projections of growth in types of criminal activity, and the establishment...
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...WHITE PAPER MATURING A THREAT INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM Discover the state of your threat intelligence capabilities and uncover a roadmap to getting ahead of today’s threats. The threat intelligence landscape is an emerging one. Even in the most sophisticated IT organizations, resource constraints often dictate that threat intelligence (TI) is the responsibility of a sole analyst sifting through incident alerts looking for patterns and trends which may indicate that a threat exists. Threat intelligence is more than that. Yet, with very few industry standards around what TI is and what it isn’t, we feel Gartner’s definition[1] comes the closest: “Threat intelligence is evidence-based knowledge, including context, mechanisms, indicators, implications and actionable advice, about an existing or emerging menace or hazard to assets that can be used to inform decisions regarding the subject’s response to that menace or hazard.” The Need to Know Clearly, going beyond simple event-based data analysis is a prerequisite for any useful threat intelligence program. The problem is that many organizations don’t know enough about the threats they face or their own security posture to defend themselves adequately. Instead they’re stuck in a reactive “stop the bleeding” or compliance-driven approach to cyber security with no clear vision or blueprint for reaching any other state. So it goes that in the rush to keep up with the TI trend, organizations are purchasing standalone...
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...The National Intelligence Strategy discusses strategic threats confronting the U.S. national security environment in which nation states, highly capable non-state actors, and other transnational forces will continue to compete with and challenge U.S. national interests. Of the threats/issues listed under the "Strategic Environment," identify (and elaborate on) the three you feel represent the greatest challenge for U.S. national security. I feel that China, North Korea and violent extremist groups pose the greatest threats to United States national security. China has an interest in the stability of East Asia, but its strategic intentions are unclear and its military modernization is of great concern to the U.S. A quarter century after beginning...
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...chance to learn from someone else’s point of view whether leadership is a trait or a process. When reading Chapter 2 of Cases in Leadership I learned The Character of Leadership. In Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional intelligence I learned that leaders have to care about the people they lead. They must also listen and ask questions to show that they care so that the employees are willing to work or deal with change without a lot of difficulty. After reading Chapter 5 in Cases in Leadership I learned about making difficult decisions in turbulent times just like the case study was titled. My personal perspective on instructional leadership has definitely increased after taking this course and learning about different leadership styles. I think that I have always known that there are different leadership styles but I didn’t know that there were names for each type. I believe that using assessment to drive instruction/training is a good idea. I think that the strengths of this course include having a teacher that is willing to address each student and not only point out mistakes but also encourage them by saying good job, great post, or even mention it to other students. The readings were interesting and I think that doing a SWOT analysis about leadership styles was a good idea. I think that the weaknesses of the course include having to add personal experiences to the posts or assignments because not everyone has an experience related to the topic. My leadership...
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...Emotional Intelligence Today’s session was on emotional intelligence. That is, being in control of one’s emotions and the thoughts and the ability to recognise other people’s emotions and be thoughtful about it. The session covered emotional resilience, interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence. There was a question that was posed to the group; are there emotions that can be used in social work practice? Can social workers use emotions such as anger? We were shown a Youtube video to explore this question further. The video was about a social worker’s visit to a mother whose new-born baby was on child protection and was recently discharged from the hospital. The mother did not like her social worker but did not show this to the social worker. On the day of the social worker visited the home, the mother kept on asking the social worker if her baby was going to be taken away from her. At a point the social worker raised her voice as she answered. It sounded...
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...Most influential theories of learning Learning is defined as a process that brings together personal and environmental experiences and influences for acquiring, enriching or modifying one’s knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, behaviour and world views. Learning theories develop hypotheses that describe how this process takes place. The scientific study of learning started in earnest at the dawn of the 20th century. The major concepts and theories of learning include behaviourist theories, cognitive psychology, constructivism, social constructivism, experiential learning, multiple intelligence, and situated learning theory and community of practice. Behaviourism The behaviourist perspectives of learning originated in the early 1900s, and became dominant in early 20th century. The basic idea of behaviourism is that learning consists of a change in behaviour due to the acquisition, reinforcement and application of associations between stimuli from the environment and observable responses of the individual. Behaviourists are interested in measurable changes in behaviour. Thorndike, one major behaviourist theorist, put forward that (1) a response to a stimulus is reinforced when followed by a positive rewarding effect, and (2) a response to a stimulus becomes stronger by exercise and repetition. This view of learning is akin to the “drill-and-practice” programmes. Skinner, another influential behaviourist, proposed his variant of behaviourism called “operant conditioning”. In...
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...Intelligent Office uses unique nuances of service innovative to the IBDM. Service Innovation Proposal Service can be described as performing a type of work, duty, or labor for a superior, manager, or a client and receive compensation for the work performed. Service can be provided by any industry such as medical, bereavement, technical, hospitality, telecommunications, charities, retail stores, financial institutions, and public utilities. Much of service innovation in today’s businesses revolves around online services and e-business. However, some companies can combine brick and mortar and the Internet to accomplish a goal of providing service for customers. For a company to use service innovation, situational assessments and market analysis through flowcharts, graphs, interviews, surveys, trends, cultural awareness, and research are important to ascertain what people desire and how a company can assist people with better, easier, and more efficient service (University of Phoenix, 2009). Legal and regulatory issues can drive service innovation due to new laws dealing with the Internet and e-business. Some countries may have a law preventing an item being sold or bought over the Internet. The service industry...
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