The National Intelligence Board (NIB), formerly the National Foreign Intelligence Board and before that the United States Intelligence Board^[1] is a body of senior U.S. Intelligence Community leaders currently led by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).^[2] The Board is tasked with reviewing and approving National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs).

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The first incarnation of the Board was the United States Intelligence Board, a forum of intelligence agency leaders convened to advise the Director of Central Intelligence on intelligence matters established by President Eisenhower in 1957 upon the recommendation of the Presidential Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities (now the President's Intelligence Advisory Board).^[1]

A quotation from a 1999 report entitled A Consumer's Guide to Intelligence, published by the Office of Public Affairs in the CIA describes the NFIB as:

"the senior Intelligence Community advisory body to the DCI on the substantive aspects of national intelligence. This Board advises the DCI on production, review, and coordination of national foreign intelligence; interagency exchanges of foreign intelligence information; arrangements with foreign governments on intelligence matters; the protection of intelligence sources and methods; activities of common concern; and such other matters as are referred to it by the DCI. It is composed of the DCI (Chairman) and other appropriate officers of the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of State, Department of Defense, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency. Representatives of other agencies, including the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Energy, the National Reconnaissance Office, the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation participate as necessary."^[3]

Both the NFIB and NIB are chaired by the directorial head of the Intelligence Community (IC); however, the dominance of the Central Intelligence Agency and Director of Central Intelligence as IC heads ended with the 2004 establishment of the position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and Office of the DNI as head, overseer, and coordinator of the IC (and FBI) in accordance with recommendations from the 9/11 Commission.^[4] The CIA remained prominent in foreign intelligence, especially foreign human intelligence (HUMINT).^[1]

The NIB is supported by ODNI's National Intelligence Council (NIC), which also acts as its Executive Secretariat.

• Military Intelligence Board, military/Defense Department-specific counterpart
• President's Intelligence Advisory Board