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The US Army, one of the four military services in the Department of Defense, is of course primarily concerned with the conduct of military operations, and is not (in its entirety) part of the Intelligence Community (IC). The Army’s intelligence component, however, does produce intelligence both for Army use and for sharing across the Community, qualifying it (Army Military Intelligence (MI)) as an IC member. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links 1-members_army_body_bottom. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links 1-members_army_body_bottom. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... The United States Department of Defense, abbreviated DoD or DOD and sometimes called the Defense Department, is a civilian Cabinet organization of the United States government. ... The Intelligence Community of the United States is an organization of several executive branch agencies within the federal government that are responsible for foreign and domestic intelligence, military planning, and espionage. ...

Army's Contribution to Intelligence

The mission of Army Intelligence is to facilitate Army transformation and support the warfighting Combatant Commanders by resourcing, fielding and sustaining the world’s premier military intelligence force. In very practical terms, this means providing commanders the knowledge they need to successfully accomplish their mission. This is a multi-level mission. Army MI's first responsibility is to eliminate intelligence surprises. This is accomplished by being engaged, around the world, on a daily basis to detect/uncover real and/or perceived threats to the US and/or US national interests. Army MI develops a variety of intelligence products, such as threat assessments, that are used by weapons systems developers and senior decision makers. The Army Intelligence component continually trains and prepares so that it will be ready to meet the ever-growing span of contingencies from war fighting to peacekeeping.

Structure

Army intelligence designed its force structure to provide timely, relevant, accurate, and synchronized intelligence and electronic warfare support to tactical, operational and strategic-level commanders. These efforts are conducted through such entities as the Headquarters Department of Army Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence - G-2 and the US Army Intelligence and Security Command.

Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence - G-2

As the Army's Chief Intelligence Officer, the Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence responsibilities include policy formulation, planning, programming, budgeting, management, staff supervision, evaluation, and oversight for intelligence activities for the Department of the Army. This individual has Army Staff responsibility for overall coordination of the five major intelligence disciplines: Imagery Intelligence, Signal Intelligence, Human Intelligence, Measurement and Signature Intelligence, and Counterintelligence and Security Countermeasures.

US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM)

Army Major Commands such as the US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) located at Ft Belvoir, Virginia conducts dominant intelligence, security and information operations for commanders and national decision-makers, and provides war fighters with the seamless intelligence needed to understand and dominate the battlefield. In addition, the Army warfighting force has a sound and proven intelligence architecture designed to support its commanders well into the 21st century. At corps level, the Senior Intelligence Officer (SIO), the G2, and an organic corps Military Intelligence (MI) Brigade provide intelligence support. The MI Brigade provides support to the corps across the full range of intelligence and counterintelligence disciplines and functions.

Army Military Intelligence accomplishes its mission in close coordination with the other Services (Air Force, Navy, and Marines) and with national intelligence agencies to ensure that ground component commanders and soldiers know what enemy forces they will face before, during, and after deployments. In addition, Army MI works to protect our nation's secrets, to protect the technology overmatch that the United States enjoys in the world, and to contribute to the Homeland Defense. An air force is a military organization that primarily operates in air-based war. ... U.S. Navy supercarrier USS Nimitz on November 3, 2003. ... France Marines is the name of a commune in the département of Val dOise, France. ...

People - The Strength of Army Military Intelligence

The jewel that makes this enterprise work is a corps of competent and very dedicated military, government civilian, and contractor professionals who are enabled by the latest technology. Army MI is more than 3,800 government civilians strong. It supports a Military Intelligence community, including military in the Active, Guard and Reserve forces, of over 28,000 that accounts for between 3-4% of the total Army force structure. Army MI skills are varied - Intelligence Analyst, Intelligence Collector, Intelligence Assistant, Information Technology Specialist, Training Specialist, Management Analyst, Educator, Security Specialist, Contract Specialist, Budget Analyst and Human Resource Manager to name but a few. For Army MI, IT IS ABOUT PEOPLE, first and foremost, striving to enable and empower their people to be "ALWAYS OUT FRONT."

Internal Links

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References

United States Intelligent Community Official Website - [1]