Intelligence Staff

DRAFT 30 June, 1999

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Associated sections: [ Communications Control Center ] [ Commandant ] [ Corps Commander and Cmd Staff ] [ Intelligence Staff ] [ Sustainment and CSS Staff ] [ Personnel and Manpower Staff ] [ Operations Staff ] [ Personal Staff ] [ Planning Staff ] [ Theater Missile Defense Staff ]

General

The Intelligence staff in general ensures the availability of intelligence and timely indications and warning on the AO, participates in planning, coordinating, directing, integrating, and controlling a concentration of intelligence efforts to disclose enemy capabilities and intentions as quickly as possible. The theater J2 is the final authority on all matters pertaining to intelligence support to EACs.  The theater J2 will review and validate all collection requirements which cannot be satisfied at the EAC level. The EAC intelligence staff ensures all intelligence matters in a timely manner to the CEAC. Component command intelligence organizations will be the primary source of personnel and collection/processing system support for EAC operations. The EAC J2, and organic intelligence assets attached to the tactical forces will be augmented as required from subordinate brigades or from CONUS-based Service intelligence and counterintelligence organizations. Component command intelligence organizations will provide service-unique (ground, maritime, and air) intelligence. They will produce integrated and focused all-source situation summaries and assessments for the EAC J2 incorporating inputs from the component organizations. The component intelligence organizations will provide critical, time-sensitive intelligence directly to EAC force commanders if the situation demands such direct connectivity. Otherwise, the data flow will be to the EAC J2 to forces. The essential ingredient is to reduce the size of intelligence staffs performing the same functions. Or, a Intelligence Support Element may be established to act as an integration staff of multiple intelligence cells.

Specific intelligence staff requirements include:

Providing the intelligence staff, all watch teams, and supporting intelligence organizations with a clear understanding of friendly objectives, intent, plans, and the unfolding conduct of joint operations.

Prioritizing the intelligence requirements. This should include review of CEAC CCIR to ensure that intelligence requirements identified by the CEAC are being processed.

Requesting additional intelligence support through established command channels.

Ensuring intelligence support to and representation on JPGs.

The J2 directs the overall CEAC intelligence staff, including the CEAC’s Intelligence Support Element, to include the following. Synchronizing intelligence support with CEAC operations, planning, and execution. Determining organic intelligence capabilities and shortfalls. Developing a EAC collection plan. Providing fused, tailored, and timely all-source intelligence to the EAC. Keeping senior and subordinate commands, Services, and national agencies informed of the current intelligence situation, priorities, and requirements. Providing, as required, intelligence information and support to EAC subordinate command’s intelligence staffs. Monitoring movement, status, and activities of national, theater, and organic intelligence and intelligence- related assets. Apprising the CEAC of intelligence capabilities and limitations, as well as the potential effects on operations.

Assisting the CEAC to: Develop and refine the EAC estimate of the situation and, concurrently, develop and refine the EAC’s intelligence estimate; Identify relevant and attainable objectives; Identify deception objectives; and Determine the priority intelligence requirements from the EAC’s mission, commander’s estimate, operation phases’ requirements, and objectives. Ensuring the intelligence support to targeting is performed, i.e., analyzing the enemy and the situation and identifying and nominating to the CEAC those critical enemy vulnerabilities that can be exploited by direct military operations to attain the commander’s intent and objectives. Providing appropriate targeting intelligence support, including target intelligence packages, to the CEAC, JTCB, and components, including the JFACC. Exchanging liaison officers as appropriate. Establishing or supervising liaison, coordination, and communications requirements with subordinate, lateral, superior, and national intelligence organizations. Validating intelligence information requirements of subordinate and supporting commands. Determining security requirements for intelligence information. Planning f o r C I, to include: Providing multidisciplinary CI threat assessments; Coordinating CI plans and operations; and Ensuring tailored CI and/or counterterrorism support to EAC’s antiterrorism and/or force protection programs. Developing EAC concept of intelligence operations, to include the following. commander near-real-time tactical intelligence.

Receipt, transmission, and handling of Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), RODCA, Special Category (SPECAT), and Originator Control (ORCON) material.

Development and maintenance of Target Intelligence and Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) capabilities responsive to EAC missions and priorities.

Mapping, charting, and geodesy (MC&G) support.

Liaison with higher, lower, adjacent, and allied commands concerning intelligence matters.

Support for tactical cover and deception operations, special operations including civil affairs matters and psychological warfare, and command and control warfare.

Coordination with other EAC staff divisions to ensure that plans and orders reflect available intelligence and intelligence requirements.

Exchange information, as required and applicable, with allies. This activity includes providing guidance and authority for foreign disclosure in accordance with existing theater and national directives.

Handling captured documents and material and interrogating captured personnel, defectors, and refugees (in conjunction with the EAC J1), as required.

Coordination of intelligence-related communications requirements with the theater J2 and the EAC J6 organizations.

Coordination of intelligence-related equipment and personnel movements with the deployed Joint Operations Planning and Execution System (JOPES) Support Element (JSE) and the EAC J1 and J4, as appropriate.

Organization

The organization and functions of the EAC J2 staff will vary depending on the scope of the mission and the nature of the parent command that forms the nucleus of the EAC. The actual size, organization, and functions of the EAC J2 Directorate will be determined by the EAC J2 and will be scaled to the demands of the mission . At a minimum, a core element of analytical and administrative capabilities is required. The diagram below represents the maximum staff organization the intelligence staff would typically organize within a major theater of war.  Small scale contingencies would have a reduced organization.   In either case METT-TC would determine the staffing level.

Corps G2 structure as listed in the 1986 Corps TOE.

Transitioning from the corps tactical structure to the operational C2 headquarters includes the following:

• G2 Current Operations Cell becomes the J2 Plans and Operations Cell.

• G2 Intelligence Cell becomes the J2 Current Intelligence Indicators and Warning Cell.

• G2 Weather Cell becomes the J3 Joint Operations Center Weather Cell.

• G2 Special Security Cell remains as is with the designation as J2 SSO to indicate the inclusion of sister service billets (page to be added once receive feedback from the field).

• G2 TAC is absorbed into the J2 Plans and Operations Cell.

• G2 Plans migrates to J5 Plans staff.

The remainder of the J2 Section's staff is filled by select corps core billets from the existing staff and assigned subordinate unit, to include sister service personnel.

G/J2 organization as designed from existing joint and army documentation.  This pictorial represents the most likely configuration of the Corps G/J2 staff for Corps XXI.   Green represents those staff cells the corps mans as a tactical corps and the purple the staff cells corps would provide the core billeting for on transitioning to an operational level headquarters.

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Administration, G/J2
Captured Material Expolitation Center
Document Exploitation Center
Intelligence Support Element
Interrogation and Debriefing Center
National Intelligence Support Team
Plans and Operations Cell
Special Security Cell

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