The Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) is the part of the British Cabinet Office responsible for: * assesing events and situations relating to external affairs, defence, terrorism, major international criminal activity, scientific, technical and international economic matters and other transnational issues, drawing on secret intelligence, diplomatic reporting and open source material * to monitor and give early warning of the development of direct and indirect threats and opportunities in those fields to British interests or policies and to the international community as a whole * to keep under review threats to security at home and overseas and to deal with such security problems as may be referred to it * to contribute to the formulation of statements of the requirements and prio