Intelligence assessment

Assessment may be executed on behalf of a state, military or commercial organisation with ranges of information sources available to each.

The "requirement" is passed to the assessing agency and worked through the intelligence cycle, a structured method for responding to the RFI.

Where sufficient current information already exists, the analysis may be tasked directly without reference to further collection.

During the finish stage, the intervention is executed, potentially an arrest or detention or the placement of other collection methods.

The fourth assumption, intelligence is hoarded, causes conflict points where information transitions from one type to another.

The first conflict point, collection, occurs when private transitions to secret information (intelligence).