ARMY AL&T
CONTRACTING
BRINGING INTEL TO
Intelligence collection isn’t just for bat tle planning. It also has demonstrated its value in contracting with information on vendors, insider threats, and fraud, waste and abuse.
by Russell Parman D
uring my past seven years of working as an intelligence specialist supporting U.S. Army Contract- ing Command (ACC), I have witnessed a gap in understanding between what intelligence is and what it can be in support of logistics. Many senior leaders have spent their careers with limited exposure to intelligence capabilities, most often limited to the support provided by their battalion
or brigade S-2 cells in theater. Experience with intelligence combat capabilities often results in surprise when a leader sees what intelligence professionals have been doing for years at higher-level commands.
For example, intelligence has proven its value in contractor vetting.
In 2007 the Army faced a significant threat to its contracting operations. An August 2007 Army Times arti- cle reported that there had been dozens of instances of contracting officers, both military and civilian, being found guilty of accepting bribes. Tat October, the Gansler Commission released its report, “Urgent Reform Required: Army Expeditionary Contracting,” which led to the creation of ACC in 2008. ACC’s mission was to oversee the vast majority of Army contracting operations. In theory, this oversight would reduce the risk of compromise of key U.S. technologies, improve the safety of our Soldiers who were responsible for providing contracting support throughout the world, and eliminate fraud, waste and abuse.
I began work in ACC G-2 (Intelligence and Security Directorate) in September 2010 as the senior intelligence specialist. While we were standing up the organization, our support to the command was limited initially to providing current intelligence, which included but was not limited to intelligence summaries, weekly threat briefings to key leaders, and black book (classified intelligence documents on current events) briefings to senior leaders of pertinent world events that affected our operations.
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