Requirements & Direction

Deciding what to care about before collecting anything.

Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIRs)

A priority intelligence requirement is a question about the external threat landscape that an organisation needs answered in order to make a decision, written as a question rather than a topic and ranked against the other questions competing for the same collection effort. PIRs are what an intelligence function collects against; everything downstream is answerable to them.

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Essential Elements of Information (EEIs)

Essential elements of information are the sub-questions that break a priority intelligence requirement into parts a collector can actually pursue. A requirement states what …

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Organisation, sector and global: the three spheres

The spheres of influence are three concentric rings of factors acting on an organisation: the business sphere it controls, the micro sphere of its …

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The Intelligence Collection Plan (ICP)

An intelligence collection plan is the document that pairs every priority intelligence requirement with the collection asset best suited to answering it. It is …

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