Intelligence Assessment - Target Centric Intelligence Cycle

Target Centric Intelligence Cycle

Where the subject of the assessment is clearly identifiable and provisions exist to make some form of intervention against that subject the target centric assessment approach may be used. This approach, known as F3EA, is complementary to the intelligence cycle and focussed on the intervention itself.

The subject for action, or target, is identified and efforts are initially made to find the target for further development. This activity will identify where intervention against the target will have the most beneficial effects.

When the decision is made to intervene action is taken to fix the target, confirming that the intervention will have a high probability of success and restricting the ability of the target to take independent action.

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

Following the intervention exploitation of the target is carried out which may lead to further refinement of the process for related targets. the output from the exploit stage will also be passed into other intelligence assessment activities.