SIGINT
Military abbreviation · Military Term
| Stands for | Signals intelligence |
|---|---|
| Categories | Military |
SIGINT stands for Signals intelligence, a military term abbreviation.
Intelligence gathered by intercepting communications and electronic signals, such as radio traffic, phone calls, data links and radar emissions. In the United States, the National Security Agency leads SIGINT collection.
Example: SIGINT intercepts revealed that the enemy commander planned to move at night.
Usage notes
SIGINT includes communications intelligence (COMINT), electronic intelligence (ELINT) and foreign instrumentation signals intelligence. Allied SIGINT cooperation among the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand is known as the Five Eyes. Breaking German and Japanese codes in World War II was a historic SIGINT triumph.
Related abbreviations
More military term abbreviations
- SCIF – Sensitive compartmented information facility
- SDO – Staff duty officer
- SEAD – Suppression of enemy air defenses
- SECDEF – Secretary of Defense
- SECNAV – Secretary of the Navy
- SERE – Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape
- SIPRNet – Secret Internet Protocol Router Network
- SITREP – Situation report
- SJA – Staff Judge Advocate
- SNAFU – Situation normal: all f***ed up
- SNCO – Senior noncommissioned officer
- SOFA – Status of forces agreement