Part 1: Your research topic requires you to research the five types of intelligence collection activities to include human intelligence (HUMNIT), signals intelligence (SIGNIT), measures and signatures intelligence (MASINT), imagery intelligence (IMINT), and open-source intelligence (OSINT).

For your research, you will want to consider the following questions:

• What federal agencies are responsible for each type of intelligence collection?
• How are these types of intelligence collection activities used to counter domestic and global terrorist threats in todayàera?
• Further explain how each intelligence collection activity could have been used to prevent a recent terrorist attack. Your submission should outline at least one recent domestic or international terrorist incident.
• What challenges exist in utilizing each of the intelligence collection methods?

Part 3: Research Paper

Using that research, for this assignment, you will submit your research paper on your chosen topic area of research of the five types of intelligence collection activities: human intelligence (HUMNIT), signals intelligence (SIGNIT), measures and signatures intelligence (MASINT), imagery intelligence (IMINT), and open-source intelligence (OSINT).

For your research, you will want to consider the following questions.

• What federal agencies are responsible for each type of intelligence collection?
• How are these types of intelligence collection activities used to counter domestic and global terrorist threats in todayàera?
• Further explain how each intelligence collection activity could have been used to prevent a recent terrorist attack. Your submission should outline at least one recent domestic or international terrorist incident.
• What challenges exist in utilizing each of the intelligence collection methods?