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Leveraging DCGS-A Subscriptions: Free unit subscriptions are available by emailing the Editor at [email protected]. Include the complete mailing address (unit name, street address, and building number) and the number of copies per issue. Don’t forget to email the Editor when your unit moves, deploys, or redeploys to ensure continual receipt of the Bulletin. Reprints: Material in this Bulletin is not copyrighted (except where indicated). Content may be reprinted if the MI Professional Bulletin and the authors are credited. Our mailing address: MIPB, USAICoE, Box 2001, Bldg. 51005, Ft. Huachuca, AZ, 85613 Issue photographs and graphics: Courtesy of the U.S. Army, DCGS-A Public Affairs and issue authors. Commanding General MG Scott D. Berrier Purpose: The U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence Chief of Staff publishes the Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin COL Todd A. Berry (MIPB) quarterly under the provisions of AR 25-30. MIPB presents information designed to keep intelligence profes- Chief Warrant Officer, MI Corps sionals informed of current and emerging developments CW5 Matthew R. Martin within the field and provides an open forum in which ideas; concepts; tactics, techniques, and procedures; his- Command Sergeant Major, MI Corps torical perspectives; problems and solutions, etc., can CSM Thomas J. Latter be exchanged and discussed for purposes of professional STAFF: development Editor By order of the Secretary of the Army: Tracey A. Remus MARK A. MILLEY General, United States Army [email protected] Chief of Staff Design and Layout Official: Gary V. Morris Cover Design GERALD B. O’KEEFE Administrative Assistant to the Gary V. Morris to the Secretary of the Army Military Staff 1626003 CPT Robert D. Wickham From the Editor As the new Editor, I would like to bid farewell to Sterilla Smith and thank her for her dedication to this bulletin. MIPB is on the open (public) front page of IKN at https://www.ikn.army.mil/ and the site has undergone revision. Current and archive issues are again accessible. Archive access requires CAC login. The following themes and deadlines are established for: April – June 2017, BCT S-2 Operations, deadline for submissions is 30 December 2016. July – September 2017, Division and Corps Intelligence Operations, deadline for submissions is 7 April 2017. Articles from the field will remain important to the success of MIPB as a professional bulletin. Please continue to submit them. Even if the topic of your article may differ from an issue’s theme, do not hesitate to submit it. Most issues will con- tain theme articles as well as articles on other topics. We seriously review and consider all submissions that add to the professional knowledge of the MI Corps and the intelligence community. Please call or email me with any questions regarding your article or any other aspects of MIPB. Tracey Remus Editor 10 October - December 2016 PB 34-16-4 Volume 42 Number 4 20 FEATURES The views expressed in the following articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Departments of the Army or Defense, or the U.S. Government. Article content is not authenticated Army information and does not su- percede information in any other Army publication. DCGS-A: Our Primary Weapons System 5 Tailoring Existing Capability in DCGS-A to Meet Emerging Demands by Major Brandon L. Van Orden and Mr. Robert S. Coon 10 Synergize: Leveraging DCGS-A in Corps Intelligence Reachback Operations by Major Jennifer Harlan and Chief Warrant Officer Three Brian Myhre 13 DCGS-A Lite: The Value of Mobile Intelligence by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J. McCarthy 17 Digital Intelligence Systems Master Gunner Course by Chief Warrant Officer Five Andrew Maykovich and Chief Warrant Officer Two Nick Rife 20 Enhancing DCGS-A NET/DTT through the Integration of IEWTPT by Captain Jared S. Doucet 22 DCGS-A Supports CJTF–HOA’s Intelligence Operations by Mr. Douglas Harris 24 Capitalizing on Situational Awareness Geospatially Enabled Tools: Reflections Following a RAF Rotation by Captain Matthew A. Hughes 28 How Should DCGS-A Approach Its Big Data Challenges? by Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Jake Crawford 32 DCGS-A and the Data Management Challenges by Major Robert Richardson 36 Should DCGS Employ Cloud Computing? by Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Jake Crawford 41 ATEC’s Contribution to DCGS-A for the Warfighter by Stephen Conley 44 Training the S-2/G-2 for IPB Success by Jennifer Dunn 46 The Unseen Target: What Trucks and Fishbones Can Teach Us about Intelligence Analysis by First Lieutenant Jeff Yao 49 Modeling Violent Extremist Organizations Using Existing Doctrinal Threat Models by MAJ Jay Hunt and Jerry England (DAC), TRADOC G-2 ACE Threats Integration 54 The Ten Principles of Intelligence Oversight Program Management by Mr. John P. Holland DEPARTMENTS 2 Always Out Front 60 Lessons Learned 3 CSM Forum 63 Moments in MI History 4 Technical Perspective 64 Contact and Article Submission Information 56 Doctrine Corner Inside back cover: DCGS-A Situational Awareness Graphic Always Out Front by Major General Scott D. Berrier Commanding General U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence In the last issue of MIPB we explored megacities and their im- intelligence enterprise. Instead of individual collection sensors plications in future warfare. As U.S. technology and capabili- and platforms using separate, disjointed systems for produc- ties continue to improve, the enemy will progressively conduct tion and dissemination, all analysis and production now falls operations in megacities and dense urban areas to mitigate under the DCGS-A umbrella. DCGS-A brings together multiple our technological advantages. To win in complex operating intelligence functions into a single system allowing units at all environments like megacities, the Army developed the Army echelons to fuse information and intelligence from multiple Operating Concept (AOC). The AOC describes how the Army sources across all intelligence disciplines. DCGS-A allows ana- will operate across multiple domains as part of joint, interor- lysts to access intelligence across all classification levels, and ganizational, and multinational teams. According to the AOC contains many tools the analyst can use to produce better in- the Army must deploy and transition rapidly, present multiple telligence. These analysts use DCGS-A to provide commanders dilemmas to the enemy, operate dispersed while maintaining with actionable intelligence. mutual support, and consolidate gains. These key tenets of the DCGS-A is critical to intelligence operations and is, therefore, AOC place significant demands on ground commanders, who one of our top priorities. We must tailor and operate DCGS-A then turn to their intelligence professionals for real-time de- to support commanders in fixed, reachback, and expedition- tailed intelligence. To answer these challenging commander ary operations. DCGS-A is a robust system, but its capabilities requirements, the Department of Defense created the can only be fully achieved if our Soldiers know how to use it. Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) and the Army de- We have to build and maintain proficiency with our main in- veloped its variant: DCGS-Army (DCGS-A). telligence weapon system to optimize its many capabilities. I Army intelligence professionals use DCGS-A, their primary in- encourage you and your Soldiers to build and maintain pro- telligence weapon system, to answer intelligence requirements ficiency with your intelligence weapon system. The juice is rapidly and accurately. This edition of MIPB is focused on fully definitely worth the squeeze. There are currently initiatives in realizing the potential of our program of record, DCGS-A, and place to reduce the complexity of the DCGS-A system at the how it assists Military Intelligence (MI) professionals in improv- battalion level, as well as configuring a DCGS-A laptop as a ing fusion and analytic efforts. DCGS-A provides commanders server for use at the battalion level. Off-the-shelf capabilities with real-time intelligence while receiving and sharing infor- are also being assessed for simplifying the use of DCGS-A pro- mation across the intelligence enterprise. grams. We all play an important role in ensuring that the force After the events of 9/11, in the infancy of operations in Iraq is fully trained and ready to employ DCGS-A while in garrison and Afghanistan, demand for intelligence, collection, analysis, so that using DCGS-A is second nature during operations. and fusion skyrocketed. Unfortunately, many units and intel- Our uncertain future poses significant challenges to MI ligence professionals, particularly those deployed to combat professionals and the Army. DCGS-A is the MI professional’s zones, found it nearly impossible to receive and share action- flagship system to answer intelligence requirements and dis- able intelligence in a timely, efficient manner. This inability to seminate intelligence products across all echelons. However, share was due to incompatible intelligence systems and plat- systems and technology do not solve all of our challenges. forms, most of which stovepiped information at each level of The strength of our profession resides with our Soldiers and analysis and fusion. There was no single system or information Civilians. Increasingly reliable and technologically advanced sharing structure for units from the battalion to the joint task systems do not provide us with the advantage to win with- force level to receive and disseminate tactical to national level out technically skilled users. Therefore, we must continue to intelligence. The intelligence community began sustained ef- build competent and adaptive Soldiers and leaders; MI pro- forts to build a system capable of tactical to national level ac- fessionals who are hungry to learn, think critically, and are cess to data, collaboration, production, and dissemination. In proficient on their assigned intelligence systems. As General 2007, the Army implemented the DCGS-A program of record.
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