INTEL AT THE TACTICAL EDGE


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acilitating actionable intelligence at the lowest echelons has been a challenge that the Army has been working its way through since


the earliest days of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom when it was determined that there was a dire need to disseminate and collate the plethora of human intelligence (HUMINT) and signals intelligence (SIGINT) that was being collected.


In response to this intelligence gap, the Army created Multi-Functional Teams (MfTs), introduced into the Battle- field Surveillance Brigade (BfSB) force structure in 2006. Te MfT construct provides multidisciplinary intelligence collection, exploitation, and limited anal- ysis to generate actionable intelligence and time-sensitive detection, tracking, and location of key targets while operat- ing at the tactical edge.


However, the MfTs encountered chal- lenges in operating at the BfSB level. Tey could not reach out to the lowest echelons where much of the available intelligence is gathered. In addition, the availability of intelligence support systems was lim- ited, which often required them to rely on upper echelons for intelligence. Although the MfTs have been in use for six years, a determination was made that in order to successfully support mission sets within the maneuver-enhanced brigade combat team (BCT), BfSB, and the proposed Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade, MfT Soldiers would require a responsive, operationally adaptive, mul- tidisciplinary,


close-access intelligence


collection and rapid, tactical site exploi- tation capability.


To support that effort, the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence (USAICoE)


conducted an extensive review and analysis of intelligence operations as well as current and future force structure, and gathered significant lessons learned from deployed commanders and Soldiers. Te totality of the data suggested the need for an MfT construct of four HUMINT and three SIGINT Soldiers, fielded with an architecture-based, integrated, multi- intelligence (Multi-INT) capability.


of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) 40 Army AL&T Magazine


“MfTs can apply data collected on-site to theater- or national-level databases and receive an almost immediate or


near-real-time response,” said CW2 Todd White, SIGINT/EW Team Lead


in USAICoE’s Requirements Determination Directorate.


AGILE APPROACH MfTs in the maneuver element are slated to be stood up in 2014, which means that the Army needs to find a way to deliver capabilities that can be used within that


timeframe. However,


developing a new system traditionally takes five to 10 years from concept to full-rate production.


January–March 2013


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