An Excerpt from FM 2-0, Intelligence

• Published in: Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 11 - 13
• Format: Trade Publication Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ft. Huachuca Superintendent of Documents 01.01.2020
• Subjects: Armed forces; Army; Collection; Communications networks; Data retrieval; Information technology; Intelligence gathering; Intelligence services; Knowledge management; Military intelligence; Military operations; Military strategy; Pictures; Spatial data; Task forces; Technical services; United States > US
• ISSN: 2379-2167; 2379-2159

INSCOM's functional brigades and groups include- ♦ An aerial intelligence brigade that provides aerial intelligence collection platforms, associated [processing, exploitation, and dissemination] PED, and mission command at forward locations. ♦ A [counterintelligence] CI group that conducts the full range of CI functions (operations, investigations, collection, analysis and production, and technical services and support activities). ♦ An Army operations group that conducts global, full spectrum [human intelligence] HUMINT operations. Specifically, the theater army intelligence cell performs the following tasks: ♦ Plans, programs, budgets, manages, evaluates, oversees, and integrates all intelligence activities. ♦ Provides functional oversight of assigned or attached intelligence personnel and units. ♦ Manages theater army intelligence collection, production, dissemination, disclosure, and CI requirements. ♦ Coordinates for national intelligence support and executes intelligence engagement and theater security cooperation as required. Military Intelligence Brigade-Theater MIB-Ts are assigned to combatant commands and may be attached, [operational control] OPCON, or [tactical control] TACON to the theater army by the combatant commander. MIB-Ts can provide or coordinate the following support and enabling services to ground forces deploying to, operating in, or otherwise supporting the theater: ♦ Intelligence: ♦ Intelligence assessments. ♦ [Common operational pictures] COPs and intelligence graphic products. ♦ Persistent intelligence overwatch (for example cultural, language, area subject matter experts). ♦ Federated intelligence production and coordination on behalf of the ASCC G-2. ♦ Integration: ♦ Information technology integration. ♦ Data services (COPs and intelligence pictures, theater foundation geospatial data, data sharing, access to the combatant command's distributed integrated backbone [also called DIB], and knowledge management). ♦ Data ingest services (data push and pull, data formatting, and Distributed Common Ground SystemArmy [DCGS-A]-to-mission command systems population).