text: Chapter 1
  Note. Intelligence professionals must protect classified intelligence.
  1-9. The following is an intelligence-centric list of characteristics:
  ⚫ Timely. Intelligence, provided early, supports operations and prevents surprise from threat
  actions. It must flow continuously to the commander and staff before, during, and after an
  operation. Intelligence organizations, databases, and products must be available to develop
  estimates, make decisions, and plan operations.
  ⚫ Relevant and tailored:
  ▪ Intelligence supports the commander’s requirements.
  ▪ Intelligence is shared and disseminated in the format requested by the commander,
  subordinate commanders, and staffs. The intelligence staff presents clear, concise
  intelligence that meets the commander’s preferences, facilitates situational understanding,
  and is usable for decision making or other actions.
  ⚫ Accurate and reliable:
  ▪ To the extent possible, intelligence should accurately identify threat intentions, capabilities,
  limitations, composition, and dispositions. It should be derived from multiple sources and
  disciplines to minimize the possibility of deception or misinterpretation. Assumptions
  should be clearly identified, and there should be a distinction between facts and
  assumptions. Alternative or contradictory assessments should be presented, when necessary,
  to ensure balance and unbiased intelligence and present planners with alternate assumptions
  and different potential indicators.
  ▪ Intelligence evaluates and determines the extent that the collected information and the
  information being used in intelligence briefings and products are trustworthy, uncorrupted, and
  undistorted. Concerns about the underlying sources’ reliability that affect confidence in the
  intelligence, or any other issues must be stated up front.
  ⚫ Predictive. Intelligence informs the commander about what the threat can do (threat capabilities,
  emphasizing the most dangerous threat COA) and is most likely to do (the most likely threat COA).
  The intelligence staff should anticipate the commander’s intelligence needs, as well as threat options
  that may potentially impact the commander’s decision making and a unit’s freedom of action.
  Predictive intelligence also considers possible threat activities and the employment of threat and
  friendly capabilities over longer time windows before those enemy forces can affect friendly forces
  or the AO. Determining time windows can assist decision makers on when to leverage forces and
  capabilities to mitigate predicted changes in an OE.
  ⚫ Meet unit or organization and intelligence enterprise standards:
  ▪ Usable. Intelligence must be in the correct data-file specifications for databasing and
  display. Usability facilitates further analysis, intelligence production, product integration
  across the staff, and use within operations.
  ▪ Complete. Intelligence briefings and products convey the necessary components to be as
  complete as possible.
  ▪ Precise (as possible). Intelligence briefings and products provide the required level of detail
  and complexity to answer the requirements.
  ANALYTIC STANDARDS
  1-10. As much as possible, intelligence products and their conclusions should adhere to analytic standards,
  such as those established by the Director of National Intelligence in Intelligence Community Directive
  (ICD) 203. These standards assist in determining the relevance and value of information before updating
  existing intelligence assessments. These standards also govern the production and evaluation of national
  intelligence analysis to meet the highest standards of integrity and rigorous analytic thinking. Although
  created for national-level intelligence agencies, these analytic standards are also valid at the operational and
  tactical levels. (See ATP 2-33.4.)