An intelligence product produced by analysts that summarize the view, at any given time, of what is going on in an area of interest. Some intelligence organizations call this simply an Intelligence Assessment. The IA is normally a fat book. The NA is usually the summary. We do the NA and keep the book in our heads. NAs cause huge amounts of infighting between departments and between operations and analysis. You can tell when Stratfor is holding a net assessment meeting by the screams and crying.