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Posted on 04/11/2007 7:22:51 PM PDT by SandRat
FORT HUACHUCA — The Intelligence Center has added another top facility to its list of accomplishments — the Department of Defense’s Human Intelligence Training Joint Center for Excellence.
“Fort Huachuca is the natural place for the joint training,” said Army Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Although a class has completed a course at the facility in Tallmadge Hall, the official ceremonial ribbon-cutting opening for the facility was held Tuesday, with a number of senior intelligence officials — military and civilian — in attendance.
Maples said the facility is needed because it will enable America’s multi-level intelligence community to work even closer on issues of importance to national security.
The war on terrorism needs strategic to tactical information to be gathered by special human intelligence personnel, he said during a short press conference after the ribbon-cutting event.
The joint HUMINT training center has a lot of work ahead of it, which will last for a few years, Maples said.
“I know it is going to grow,” he said.
Lt. Col. Jim Hamby, who is the center’s director, also spoke after the ceremony. He said there are a number of courses the center will be teaching. They are:
Joint Interrogation Certification — To train contractors in the basics of interrogation and certify them as meeting Defense Department standards.
Defense Enhanced Analysis and Interrogation Training — To provide advance interrogation training by instructing certified interrogators and intelligence analysts to work as a team involving high value detainees.
Defense Strategic Debriefing — The first joint Defense Department course to train personnel in advanced debriefing skills and reporting techniques.
Military Source Operation — Trains people on the best way to garner information.
When put all together, the result is to meet warfighters’ needs and provide combat commanders information on which to make decisions, Hamby said.
Gone are the days when each military service and the other intelligence agencies did their own thing. In today’s world, “human intelligence is a team sport,” Hamby said, adding that requires all the players to participate.
For Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast, commander of the Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca, the new Defense Department center satisfies a “niche that was not filled.”
Speaking before Tuesday’s ceremony, she said the center opens more avenues of cooperation, allowing the military to work with other federal groups such as the Central Intelligence Agency.
For many older people who have been part of the human intelligence community, the discussion for needing such a center was important, Fast said.
Noting many of the people have been part of the intelligence community for years, she said establishing the new center is a major step in providing important information.
Before taking up a pair of scissors, Maples said, “It’s this capability that is about collaboration.”
Looking at the audience, in which many flag officers were present along with senior civilians from a number of federal agencies, Maples said, “This is going to be joint.”
Creating the center of excellence received a lot of congressional support, the general said. One of the key players was U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi, who was introduced at the event. Renzi, a Buena High School graduate, is a Republican who represents Arizona’s First Congressional District.
The totality of the intelligence that will come about will have many benefits, including deconflicting information and allowing intelligence gathered by one organization to be better used by others, Maples said.
The idea for the center was talked about 17 months ago, the DIA director said. The result was a defense intelligence enterprise that is pushing the nation’s intelligence communities. Maples said the center is an example of that success.
The intelligence needed by combatant commanders will be answered, he added.
Army Lt. Gen. John Kimmons sees the center as “absolutely important.” The new center, he said, will prepare those involved in the intelligence game the ability to play and win.
As everyone knows, “intelligence is a full body contact sport,” said the Army’s deputy chief of staff for intelligence.
HERALD/REVIEW senior reporter Bill Hess can be reached at 515-4615 or by e-mail at bill.hess@svherald.com.
FR WAR NEWS!Very interesting. It’s good to see the Defense Department finally taking HUMINT seriously.
Great fore thought..../sar
Can I get a concession on binoculars and telephoto camera lenses down there?
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