BRINGING INTEL TO CONTRACTING
With this information we created datasets that included thousands of vendors world- wide who could provide services and had been vetted against HUMINT report- ing. Using this process, we were able to provide direct support to our personnel deploying to West Africa in response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014. Tis support came in the form of a list of vendors we found and were able to vet against existing intelligence reporting for potential threats. Additional data was produced for dozens of countries, with tens of thousands of vendors found and vetted, and dozens of instances of potential risk identified.
Once I had a finished product for a specific country, I would use the Human Online Tasking Resource, an online repository of intelligence reporting, to author evalua- tions for intelligence collectors to ensure that they received the necessary feed- back. As a result, HUMINT collectors better understood the need for this type of intelligence and now had an incentive to continue collecting information on local vendors.
It is often stated that “the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” and HUMINT collectors are more likely to try to feed intelligence to those who provide them with critical feed- back. In this instance, intelligence report evaluations are a necessary and valuable tool for intelligence analysts. Additionally, the analyst has the opportunity to directly task the human intelligence collector through source-directed requirements. Every analyst answers to a customer, and those requirements provide a direct means for the intelligence consumer to ask follow-on questions.
CONCLUSION Intelligence has tremendous utility for contracting if decision-makers in charge of resources make use of existing method- ologies. Te intelligence reporting system
104 Army AL&T Magazine Summer 2019 STOPPING FRAUD
Spc. Rosalba Vargas, 888th Movement Control Team, checks out a contracted truck as it leaves a transport yard Feb. 27 in northern Kuwait. In years past, Afghan truck drivers were frequently contracted to support logistical lines and often engaged in fraud. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Edward Ruiz, 184th Sustainment Command)
is already in place and shows how analysts can use available resources in the intelli- gence cycle to provide good information that did not previously exist.
Intelligence analysts must use all available tools to provide the best available informa- tion to those in need of their intelligence. Te use of intelligence can greatly enhance logistics and address the current threat environment, which includes insider threats, intelligence collection, terrorism, fraud, waste and abuse.
For example, the Multi Media Messenger platform and the Human Online Task- ing Resource, used jointly, allowed me to build an intelligence program from scratch. Te program provided a necessary service to our consumers at ACC, allow- ing for risk management and mitigation and facilitating intelligence preparation by finding reputable contractors in coun- tries where limited data on vendors exists.
Unfortunately, this program was discon- tinued in 2016 because of personnel cuts.
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