text: Glossary
  SECTION II – TERMS
  assessment
  Determination of the progress toward accomplishing a task, creating a condition, or achieving an
  objective. (JP 3-0)
  *information collection
  An activity that synchronizes and integrates the planning and employment of sensors and assets as well
  as the processing, exploitation, and dissemination systems in direct support of current and future
  operations.
  intelligence
  The product resulting from the collection, processing, integration, evaluation, analysis, and
  interpretation of available information concerning foreign nations, hostile or potentially hostile forces
  or elements, or areas of actual or potential operations. The term is also applied to the activity which
  results in the product and to the organizations engaged in such activity. (JP 2-0)
  intelligence operations
  The tasks undertaken by military intelligence units and Soldiers to obtain information to satisfy
  validated requirements. (ADRP 2-0)
  intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
  An activity that synchronizes and integrates the planning and operation of sensors, assets, and
  processing, exploitation, and dissemination systems in direct support of current and future operations.
  This is an integrated intelligence and operations function. (JP 2-01)
  multinational operations
  A collective term to describe military actions conducted by forces of two or more nations, usually
  undertaken within the structure of a coalition or alliance. (JP 3-16)
  reconnaissance
  A mission undertaken to obtain, by visual observation or other detection methods, information about
  the activities and resources of an enemy or adversary, or to secure data concerning the meteorological,
  hydrographic or geographic characteristics of a particular area. (JP 2-0)
  reconnaissance objective
  A terrain feature, geographic area, enemy force, adversary, or other mission or operational variable,
  such as specific civil considerations, about which the commander wants to obtain additional
  information. (ADRP 3-90)
  running estimate
  The continuous assessment of the current situation used to determine if the current operation is
  proceeding according to the commander’s intent and if planned future operations are supportable.
  (ADP 5-0)
  site exploitation
  Systematically searching for and collecting information, material, and persons from a designated
  location and analyzing them to answer information requirements, facilitate subsequent operations, or
  support criminal prosecution. (ATTP 3-90.15)
  security operations
  Those operations undertaken by a commander to provide the early and accurate warning of enemy
  operations, to provide the force being protected with time and maneuver space within which to react to
  the enemy, and to develop the situation to allow the commander to effectively use the protected force.
  (ADRP 3-90)
  special reconnaissance
  Reconnaissance and surveillance actions conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or
  politically sensitive environments to collect or verify information of strategic or operational
  significance, employing military capabilities not normally found in conventional forces. (JP 3-05)