signals intelligence

1. A category of intelligence comprising either individually or in combination all communications intelligence, electronic intelligence, and foreign instrumentation signals intelligence, however transmitted.
2. Intelligence derived from communications, electronic, and foreign instrumentation signals. Also called SIGINT. See also communications intelligence; electronic intelligence; intelligence; foreign instrumentation signals intelligence.

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signals intelligence - intelligence information gathered from communications intelligence or electronics intelligence or telemetry intelligence

SIGINT

intelligence activity, intelligence operation, intelligence - the operation of gathering information about an enemy

electronics intelligence, ELINT - intelligence derived from electromagnetic radiations from foreign sources (other than radioactive sources)

COMINT, communications intelligence - technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipients

telemetry intelligence, TELINT - intelligence derived from the interception and processing and analysis of foreign telemetry

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all-source intelligence
COMINT
communications intelligence
electro-optical intelligence
electronic intelligence
electronic masking
electronics intelligence
ELINT
foreign instrumentation signals intelligence
intelligence activity
intelligence discipline
intelligence operation
SIGINT
SIGINT direct service
SIGINT direct service activity
SIGINT direct support
SIGINT direct support unit
SIGINT operational control
SIGINT operational tasking

US signals intelligence was so limited in 1946 that half the finished intelligence produced by the army was based on intercepts of French communications, according to the history.

Official history lifts a veil on US code-breaking agency by AFP / AFP American Edition

This has proven to be erroneous; neither Echelon nor the signals intelligence (SIGINT) system of which it is part, can do this.

'An unencrypted email is like a letter without an envelope': "how do ... by Ankomah, Baffour / New African

The ELINT skills will combine with the existing 98C communications intelligence COMINT) skills to create a true signals intelligence (SIGINT) analyst.

Upcoming changes in MI occupational specialties by Crossman, Walter J. / Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin

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