English > United States Intelligence Community: 1 sense > noun 1, group| Meaning | A group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence. |
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| Synonyms | Intelligence Community, National Intelligence Community, IC |
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| Members | Air Force Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Air Force ISR, AFISR | An agency focused on ensuring that the United States military attains information superiority |
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| Army Intelligence, AI | An agency of the United States Army responsible / responsible for providing timely and relevant and accurate and synchronized intelligence to tactical and operational and strategic level commanders |
| Bureau of Intelligence and Research, INR | An agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community |
| Central Intelligence Agency, CIA | An independent agency of the United States government responsible / responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest |
| Defense Intelligence Agency, DIA | An intelligence agency of the United States in the Department of Defense |
| Department of Energy Intelligence, DOEI | An agency that collects political and economic and technical information about energy matters and makes the Department of Energy's technical and analytical expertise available to other members of the Intelligence Community |
| Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI | A federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice |
| Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, MCIA | An agency of the United States Marine Corps that provides responsive and broad intelligence support for the worldwide / worldwide Marine Corps organization |
| National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, NGA | A combat support agency that provides geographic intelligence in support of national security |
| National Reconnaissance Office, NRO | An intelligence agency in the United States Department of Defense that designs and builds and operates space reconnaissance systems to detect trouble spots worldwide / worldwide and to monitor arms control agreements and environmental issues and to help plan military operations |
| National Security Agency, NSA | The United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign / foreign intelligence information |
| Office of Intelligence Support, OIS | agency that oversees the intelligence relationships of the Treasury's offices and bureaus and provides a link between the Intelligence Community and officials responsible / responsible for international economic policy |
| Office of Naval Intelligence, ONI | The military intelligence agency that provides for the intelligence and counterintelligence and investigative and security / security requirements of the United States Navy |
| Parts | Advanced Research and Development Activity, ARDA | An agency of the Intelligence Community that conducts advanced research and development related to information technology |
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| Region | United States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A. | North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean |
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| Broader | intelligence, intelligence service, intelligence agency | A unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy |
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| Catalan | IC |
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