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No. 65 SEPTEMBER 2007 Task Force 165 Military Intelligence Battalion – Building a Capability F. Patrick Filbert Task Force 165 Military Intelligence Battalion — Building a Capability by F. Patrick Filbert The Institute of Land Warfare ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY 26 AN AUSA INSTITUTE OF LAND WARFARE PAPER S2X Staff Counterintelligence TAREX Target Exploitation and HUMINT Element The purpose of the Institute of Land Warfare is to extend the educational work of AUSA by TE Tactical Exploitation SBE Stay-Behind Equipment sponsoring scholarly publications, to include books, monographs and essays on key defense TES/DTES Tactical Exploitation issues, as well as workshops and symposia. A work selected for publication as a Land Warfare SCI Sensitive Compartmented System/Deployable Paper represents research by the author which, in the opinion of the editorial board, will contrib- Information Tactical Exploitation ute to a better understanding of a particular defense or national security issue. Publication as an System SETAF Southern European Institute of Land Warfare Paper does not indicate that the Association of the United States Task Force TF Task Force Army agrees with everything in the paper, but does suggest that the Association believes the paper will stimulate the thinking of AUSA members and others concerned about important SFOR Stabilization Force TFCICA Task Force Counter- defense issues. intelligence Control SIGACT Significant Activity Authority Land Warfare Paper No. 65, September 2007 SIGINT Signals Intelligence THT Tactical HUMINT Team Task Force 165 Military Intelligence Battalion – SIM Automated Systems Inte- TM Team Building a Capability gration Management Trojan Spirit-Lite Intelligence comunica- SIPR Secret Internet Protocol by F. Patrick Filbert tions network; not an Router acronym Major Frederic Patrick “Pat” Filbert, U.S. Army, was the Intelligence Plans Section Chief for S-JISE Secret Joint Intelligence TS-L Trojan Spirit-Lite the United States Army, Europe (USAREUR) G2 (Intelligence) and was the lead USAREUR Support Element; Intelligence Planner for the Operation Enduring Freedom 2004–2006 Intelligence Battlefield name used for the TTPs Tactics, Techniques and Secret Internet Proto- Procedures Operating System (IBOS) sourcing and Task Force 165 effort. col file server used in TUAV Tactical Unmanned Commissioned an Armor Officer and force-aligned to the Military Intelligence Corps, he received CJ2 Joint Intelligence Support Element Aerial Vehicle a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Hawaii-Manoa, is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the Army SOMDB Source Operations Man- U2 Type of intelligence- gathering aircraft Force Management School at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He is currently enrolled in the American agement Database Military University for a Master’s in Intelligence. He has served in various command and staff SPARC Scalable Processor UCMJ Uniform Code of Military positions in the continental United States, Bosnia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Korea and Germany. Architecture (Sun Justice Micro Systems Sun UIC Unit Identification Code Major Filbert is currently assigned to the Joint Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center of Excellence, SPARC computer) Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. USAREUR United States Army, Steamroller Name of a U.S. signals Europe intelligence collection system; not an VoIP Voice Over Internet This paper represents the opinions of the author and should not be taken to represent acronym Protocol the views of the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, the United States government, the Institute of Land Warfare, or the Association of the United StoneGhost Name of a U.S./United VTC Video Teleconference States Army or its members. Kingdom bilateral top- secret network; not an WebTAS Web-enabled Timeline Analysis System © Copyright 2007 by acronym The Association of the United States Army SWO Staff Weather Office WNDAA Example of a Unit All rights reserved. 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TACSAT Tactical Satellite ii 25 LEP Law Enforcement NS Non-Specific Contents Personnel NTV Non-Tactical Vehicle LRS Long-Range Foreword ....................................................................................................................... v Surveillance NVG Night Vision Goggles OEF Operation Enduring Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 LRSD Long-Range Surveil- Freedom lance Detachment The Problem ................................................................................................................... 1 OIF Operation Iraqi Freedom M3 Multimedia Message Manager (automated OMT Operational Maneuver Truncated Planning .......................................................................................................... 3 message processing Team services) Unit Structure Building .................................................................................................... 6 ONS Operational Needs MA Mission Analysis Statement TF 165 MI Augmentation ............................................................................................... 6 MASINT Measurement and Ops Operations Signature Intelligence Finding Equipment ........................................................................................................ 11 OPTEMPO Operational Tempo MBITR MultiBand Inter/Intra Team Radio OSINT Open Source Intelligence Training the Force ......................................................................................................... 16 P3C-AIP MCS Maneuver Control P3C-AIP U.S. Navy Reconnais- Deployment Challenges ................................................................................................. 16 System sance Aircraft (P-3C/ ORION) with Anti- MDMP Military Decision Surface Warfare Lessons Observed and Learned .................................................................................... 18 Making Process Improvement Program Conclusion ................................................................................................................... 19 MI Military Intelligence PAX Personnel MICO MI Company PM Project Manager Endnotes ...................................................................................................................... 20 MIDB Modernized Intelligence Predator A type of unmanned Glossary ....................................................................................................................... 21 Database aerial vehicle MOS Military Occupational Prophet Battlefield Electronic Specialty Surveillance System MSC Major Subordinate PROV Provisional Command PRT-ISC Provisional Reconstruc- MTOE Modified Table of tion Team-Intelligence Organization and Support Cell Equipment PTOE Provisional Table of Organization and NARCR Narcotics Report Equipment NGA National Geospatial- Raven A type of unmanned Intelligence Agency aerial vehicle NIMA National Imagery and NIMA REMBASS Remotely Monitored Mapping Agency (old Battlefield Sensor name for NGA) System NIPRNET Non-classified Internet RWS Remote Workstation Protocol Router Network S2 Staff-level Intelligence 24 iii GSS Ground Surveillance IN Infantry System INSCOM (U.S. Army) Intelligence Guardrail Airborne SIGINT collec- and Security tion and precision tar- Command geting location system; not an acronym INTELEX Intelligence Exercise HAC HUMINT Analysis Cell IPL Integrated Priority List HARC HUMINT Analysis IPS Intelligence Processing Reporting Cell Section HDS/HDWS Human Domain IPW Interrogation of Prisoner Workstation of War HHSC Headquarters and ITRT Individual Tactical Headquarters Service Reporting Tool Company J2 Joint-level Intelligence HOC HUMINT Operations J2X Joint-level Staff Counter- Center intelligence and HQDA Headquarters, Depart- HUMINT Element ment of the Army JDISS JWICS Deployable Intel- HUMINT Human Intelligence ligence Support System I3-ISDS Integrated Imagery and Intelligence-Intelligence JIF Joint Interrogation Support Database Facility System (the GCCS-I3 JISE Joint Intelligence database) Support Element IA Individual Augmentation JMD Joint Manning Document IBOS Intelligence Battlefield JMICS JWICS Mobile Intelli- Operating System gence Communica- ID Infantry Division tions System IDC Information Dominance JMICS/C JWICS Mobile Intelli- Center gence Communica- tions System/ IDC-E Information Dominance Containerized Center-Extension JSTARS Joint Surveillance Target ILO In Lieu Of Acquisition and Recon- naissance System IMETS-L Integrated Meteorolog- ical and Environmental JTF Joint Task Force Terrain System-Lite JWICS Joint Worldwide IMINT Imagery Intelligence Intelligence Commu- nications System IM/IT Information Manage- ment/Information KFOR Kosovo Peace Technology Stabilization Force iv 23 CJ2 Combined/Joint IBOS DS Direct Support Foreword Staff DTSS Digital Topographic In early 2004, United States Army, Europe (USAREUR) was tasked to furnish a division- CJ2X Combined/Joint-level Support System Counterintelligence level Military Intelligence (MI) battalion/task force to provide intelligence support and and HUMINT Element DUIC Derivative