At the National Security Agency, intelligence analysis is the process of generating intelligence from data and information derived from foreign signals. Intelligence analysts are the Agency’s professionals whose research, analysis, and presentation of findings provide the most complete possible signals intelligence (SIGINT) picture. SIGINT is used by U.S. policy makers, military commanders, and other Intelligence Community organizations to assist in Executive Branch decisions and actions.
Full Definition of FOREIGN
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: situated outside a place or country; especially : situated outside one's own country
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: born in, belonging to, or characteristic of some place or country other than the one under consideration
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: of, relating to, or proceeding from some other person or material thing than the one under consideration
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: alien in character : not connected or pertinent
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: related to or dealing with other nations
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a : occurring in an abnormal situation in the living body and often introduced from outside <a foreign body lodged in the esophagus>
b : not recognized by the immune system as part of the self<foreign proteins>
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: not being within the jurisdiction of a political unit (as a state)
Full Definition of SIGNAL
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: sign, indication
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a : an act, event, or watchword that has been agreed on as the occasion of concerted action
b : something that incites to action
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: something (as a sound, gesture, or object) that conveys notice or warning
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a : an object used to transmit or convey information beyond the range of human voice
b : the sound or image conveyed in telegraphy, telephony, radio, radar, or television
c : a detectable physical quantity or impulse (as a voltage, current, or magnetic field strength) by which messages or information can be transmitted