| Silly me, I'd assumed we'd done something like this about 4 1/2 years ago... |
(AHN) - Five years after terrorists attacked America, the Department of Defense is opening the U.S. Strategic Command's Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Director Army Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, says the center will "operationalize" intelligence collection, adding it will "operate at the defense level with national capabilities, but more importantly to respond to the needs of combatant commanders."
| “Air Force Maj. Gen. Mark Welsh says the center will allow intelligence planners to sort and compile defense intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations from a global perspective...” |
"(The center) takes combatant commander responsibilities and then associates that with the ability of a combat support activity - DIA on the intelligence side - and creates an ability to understand what the needs and requirements are of the other combatant commanders, what their intelligence needs are and how we ought to be managing the resources." Air Force Maj. Gen. Mark Welsh says the center will allow intelligence planners to sort and compile defense intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations from a global perspective.
The center will work with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency to apply national assets to Defense problems and vice versa. |