Our purpose in intercepting the signals is to glean whatever information we can from them. The reason that people would send the signals is normally primarily for communications. When I say “signals”, I mean radio waves. If somebody is talking on the radio or sending a radio transmission, their purpose is to communicate with somebody else. Because of where Alert is, it is often possible to receive the same signal and hopefully gather something useful out of it, which would be our job.
On February 18th, 2015. See this statement in context.