# United States Intelligence Community **Entity class:** Federation of United States intelligence organizations **Aliases:** Intelligence Community; IC **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition The **United States Intelligence Community** is the statutory federation of executive-branch organizations and intelligence elements that collect, analyze, produce, and disseminate intelligence for national-security decision-making. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence integrates the community; it does not erase component missions or chains of command. The community has 18 elements. The [[wiki/IC Data Strategy 2023–2025|IC Data Strategy 2023–2025]] directs those elements toward common services and interoperable, discoverable, AI-ready data. [[wiki/ICD 503|ICD 503]] supplies risk governance for the interconnected IC Information Environment. These common technical and assurance layers support federation; they do not transform the 18 elements into one agency. ## Relationships - **includes service element:** [[wiki/United States Army Intelligence|United States Army Intelligence]]. - **Army operational integrator:** [[wiki/Army Intelligence and Security Command|INSCOM]], whose mission supports Army, joint and coalition commands and the Intelligence Community. - **counterterrorism integrator:** [[wiki/National Counterterrorism Center|National Counterterrorism Center]]. - **identity repository:** [[wiki/Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment|TIDE]]. - **national technical members include:** [[wiki/National Security Agency|NSA]], [[wiki/National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency|NGA]], and [[wiki/Defense Intelligence Agency|DIA]]. - **domestic investigative member:** [[wiki/Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]. - **interagency operational nodes:** [[wiki/Joint Interagency Task Force South|JIATF-S]] and [[wiki/Joint Interagency Task Force-Counter Cartel|JIATF-CC]] incorporate Intelligence Community participation without becoming the Community itself. - **entertainment-engagement law:** [[wiki/50 U.S.C. § 3332|50 U.S.C. § 3332]]. - **education and workforce study:** [[wiki/National Defense Intelligence College|NDIC]] and [[wiki/Hollywood Soldier|Hollywood Soldier]]. - **human-performance architecture:** [[wiki/Producer Function|Producer Function]] and [[wiki/Performance-Labor Pathway Family|Performance-Labor Pathway Family]]. - **data and AI strategy:** [[wiki/AIM Initiative|AIM Initiative]], [[wiki/IC Data Strategy 2023–2025|IC Data Strategy 2023–2025]], and [[wiki/AI Fusion|AI Fusion]]. - **assurance architecture:** [[wiki/ICD 503|ICD 503]], [[wiki/Machine-Readable Assurance|Machine-Readable Assurance]], and [[wiki/Federated Trust Fabric|Federated Trust Fabric]]. - **industrial membrane:** [[wiki/Industrial Intelligence Workforce|Industrial Intelligence Workforce]] and [[wiki/Operational Onboarding|Operational Onboarding]]. - **source dossier:** [[research/The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy|The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Office of the Director of National Intelligence — Members of the IC](https://www.dni.gov/index.php/what-we-do/members-of-the-ic) - [ODNI — IC Data Strategy 2023–2025](https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/IC-Data-Strategy-2023-2025.pdf) ## IC / “ice” pronunciation route Spoken aloud, **IC** can sound like “ice.” In this vault it means the United States Intelligence Community. The pronunciation is routed through [[wiki/ICE|ICE]] to prevent collision with unrelated acronyms and to connect NGA collaboration, exploitation environments, distributed intelligence IT, and commercial satellite ingestion. Disambiguation: [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Connected marketplace roles The source article connects this entry with [[wiki/Intelligence Assemblage|Intelligence Assemblage]], [[wiki/Office of the Director of National Intelligence|Office of the Director of National Intelligence]]. These routes locate the associated people, implementations, methods, and operational contexts in [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. **Collections:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]].