Description
Collect, fuse, and analyze intelligence from law-enforcement, intelligence community, open-source, and technical sensors to detect, assess, and disrupt terrorist threats. Apply geospatial and data-analytic tools to support threat prevention, targeting, and protective operations.
- • Forecast terrorist activity and threat indicators using multi-source intelligence analysis.
- • Study terrorist organizations, networks, financing, recruitment, travel, and logistics.
- • Design, use, and maintain databases and analytic tools, including GIS and AI applications.
- • Build threat profiles for terrorist groups, cells, facilitators, and lone actors.
- • Analyze lawfully obtained communications records to map terrorist networks and locations.
- • Exploit imagery, radar, and signals reporting to identify sites, movements, or attack preparation.
- • Collect and validate terrorism-related information from field reporting, HUMINT sources, and public records.
- • Fuse data from law-enforcement and intelligence databases to produce actionable threat assessments.
- • Conduct link, geospatial, and timeline analysis to associate suspects, events, and resources with plots.
- • Task and exploit surveillance collection to document pre-attack behaviors and communications.
- • Prepare clear reports, briefings, maps, and charts summarizing counterterrorism analysis.
- • Develop collection requirements and plans to intercept terrorist communications with SIGINT partners.
- • Analyze financial records to trace terrorist funding, facilitators, and illicit transfers.
- • Corroborate existing intelligence with independent sources to validate assessments.
- • Collaborate with federal, state, local, and international partners to share counterterrorism intelligence.
- • Inform protective security measures, targeting, and operational planning with threat intelligence.
- • Conduct interviews and debriefs of sources or witnesses to collect counterterrorism HUMINT.
- • Translate and analyze coded or foreign-language material related to terrorist activity.
- • Identify patterns, TTPs, and trends in radicalization, mobilization, and attack methods.
- • Deliver briefings on analytic findings to leadership and operational teams.
- • Identify intelligence gaps and produce collection or research plans to close them.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
