:: This article is a subset article in a series under intelligence collection management. For a hierarchical list of articles, see the intelligence cycle management hierarchy. SIGINT is a contraction of SIGnals INTelligence, which is a intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether between people (for example, COMINT or communications intelligence) or between machines (for example, ELINT or electronic intelligence), or mixtures of the two. As sensitive information is often encrypted,… (More on Sigint)