TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATIONS

13-12. The TECHINT enterprise consists of multiple entities within the Army working in concert with organizations from other Service components, within DOD, other U.S. departments, national laboratories, and U.S. academic institutions as well as international partners. For additional information on the TECHINT enterprise, see TC 2-22.4.

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13-13. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) manages and reviews overall TECHINT activities. The Scientific and Technical Intelligence (S&TI) Directorate within DIA is the action element for TECHINT. This directorate coordinates with external TECHINT agencies on nonpolicy matters concerning the production of S&TI. The following organizations provide TECHINT support under the control of DIA:

z National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI)—based at Fort Detrick, Maryland, is a

DOD intelligence production center under DIA control. NCMI is responsible for exploiting foreign medical materiel. The director supports the Army Foreign Materiel Program (FMP) and Army medical R&D requirements. The director coordinates planning, programming, and budgeting with the Army Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS), G-2.

z Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC)—based at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is a

acquires, produces, maintains, and disseminates S&TI pertaining to missile and space weapons systems, subsystems, components, and activities. The S&TI produced at MSIC also covers foreign state-of-the-art technology and research applicable to missiles.

z Defense HUMINT—conducts worldwide human intelligence (HUMINT) operations to support foreign materiel acquisition (FMA) and foreign materiel exploitation (FME).

13-14. The organizations and agencies below constitute the Army TECHINT structure.

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13-15. Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA) DCS, G-2 exercises staff responsibility for all Army TECHINT activities. The Army DCS, G-2 forms policies and procedures for S&TI activities, supervises and carries out the Army S&TI program, coordinates Army staff and major subordinate command requirements for TECHINT, and is responsible for the Army FMP.

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13-16. Under the direction of HQDA, Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) is responsible for TECHINT. INSCOM fulfills its responsibilities through its TECHINT oversight function and manages the Army’s Foreign Materiel for Training Program and FMP. It provides the interface with strategic S&TI agencies to support FME and organizes, trains, and equips TECHINT organizations. TECHINT exploitation within INSCOM is performed by the following elements:

z National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC). Headquarters, INSCOM, exercises operational control (OPCON) over the NGIC. NGIC produces and maintains intelligence on foreign scientific developments, ground force weapons systems, and associated technologies. NGIC analysis includes but is not limited to military communications electronics systems; types of aircraft used by foreign ground forces; chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosives (CBRNE) capabilities; and basic research in civilian technologies with possible military applications. Recent additions to the NGIC mission include biometric intelligence data, databasing, and counter-improvised explosive device (CIED) targeting program.

z 203d Military Intelligence (MI) Battalion. The 203d MI Battalion is a multicomponent unit headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and is the Army’s only TECHINT battalion. It performs the following functions:

„ Forms the core of the captured materiel exploitation center (CMEC).

„ Provides logistics and infrastructure to support the joint and interagency TECHINT assets that form the combined joint captured materiel exploitation center (CJCMEC).

„ Supports multiple CJCMEC missions worldwide.

„ Conducts TECHINT collection and reporting in support of validated S&TI objectives. „ Conducts TECHINT training for DOD analysts and TECHINT personnel.

„ Supports INSCOM’s FMA and FME operations as directed. „ Analyzes and exploits foreign weapon systems and other CEM. „ Reports on the capabilities and limitations of CEM.

„ Provides recommendations for countermeasures to enemy technical advantages. „ Provides foreign or enemy equipment familiarization and training.

„ Provides recommendations on the reuse of CEM. „ Responds to emerging TECHINT missions.

„ Provides task-organized battlefield TECHINT teams to support the commander’s TECHINT requirements.

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13-17. The U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) plays a significant support role in TECHINT. Among AMC elements are a series of Army research, development, and engineering centers (RDECs), the Army

Research Laboratory System, and the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command. Each element plays a role in operations by conducting highly technical evaluations of foreign equipment.

13-18. Both in times of conflict and otherwise, the AMC conducts FME on equipment purchased by individual RDECs, supplied by the intelligence community, or recovered in theater. Results are provided to the intelligence community, the U.S. R&D community, and the rest of DOD. AMC’s foreign ordnance exploitation capability resides within the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technology Directorate located at the Armament Research Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC), Picatinny Arsenal. The capability resides within two teams in the directorate:

z The Foreign Ordnance team:

„ Collects and exploits foreign explosive ordnance.

„ Develops render-safe and disposal procedures for foreign explosive ordnance.

„ Prepares detailed intelligence reports and other publications to support the EOD, intelligence, and U.S. R&D communities.

z The Foreign Materiel Exploitation team:

„ Conducts detailed multidisciplinary exploitation of selected foreign explosive ordnance items as directed by the intelligence community and other customers, including both laboratory and live testing activities.

„ Prepares detailed foreign materiel test reports to disseminate test results to the intelligence and U.S. R&D communities.

„ Prepares foreign weapon system download procedures in support of EOD.

13-19. There are many other agencies with TECHINT responsibilities within the DOD. Refer to TC 2-22.4 for more information on TECHINT.