ARMY INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATIONS

The U.S. Army Intelligence Community, is directed by the Office of
the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence.  The major operational
agency is the Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM,) which
is charged with human intelligence (HUMINT,) counter-intelligence
(CI,) and signals intelligence (SIGNIT,) and communications security
(COMSEC.)

Other members of the Army Intelligence community are the Army
Intelligence Agency (AIA) the Army Missile and Space Intelligence
Center (AMSIC) the Foreign Science and Technology Center (FSTC) the
Intelligence and Threat Analysis Center (ITAC) and the Intelligence
Support Activity (ISA.)

The U.S. Army Intelligence and Threat Analysis Center located in the
Washington Navy Yard is responsible for:

        *  providing intelligence assessments of near-term to twenty
        year projected capabilities and vulnerabilities of those
        foreign forces that represent either potential threats to,
        or potential allies in support of, U.S. operations

        *  providing intelligence assessments of current military
        capabilities and vulnerabilities as well as military aspects
        of the political, economic, sociologic, demographic, and
        geographic environment of those non-allied countries in
        which the U.S. Army may operate

        *  producing intelligence assessments (current & projected)
        of a foreign force's doctrinal, organizational, operational
        and tactical concepts

        *  producing counterintelligence and international
        assessments of the current projected organizations,
        capabilities, and methods of foreign intelligence and
        security services and terrorist groups

        *  producing imagery intelligence on foreign ground force
        equipment and weapons systems, according to the National
        Tasking Plan and providing national-level imagery
        exploitation support to the U.S. Army

        *  providing direct analytic exchange between the Army
        Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency in
        support of Army requirements for SIGNIT.

        *  Reserve Components assigned to this task are designated
        MID's (Military Intelligence Detachments.)

        The Foreign Science and Technology Center (FSTC) established
        in 1962 is located in Charlottesville, Virginia.  FSTC's
        mission is to "produce scientific and technical intelligence
        concerning sciences, ground force weapon systems and
        technologies in response to valid intelligence production
        requirements.  Specific functions include:

        *  identifying and projecting the scientific and technical
        threat to the U.S. Army

        *  forecasting foreign military research, development, and
        acquisition trends

        *  PRODUCING AND DISSEMINATING ALL-SOURCE SCIENTIFIC AND
        TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTS

        *  managing the Army Foreign Material (FMP) to include the
        acquisition and exploitation of foreign material and the
        dissemination of the resulting data

        *  producing Foreign Target Signatures data.


The U.S. Army Missile and Space Intelligence Center is located at
Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.

The centers mission is to:  acquire, produce, maintain, and
disseminate scientific and technological intelligence pertaining to
missile and space weapons systems, subsystems, components, and
activities; related sciences and technologies representing state of
the art to support Department of the Army and Department of Defense
requirements.  Major components are:  Systems Simulations and
Scientific Applications Directorate - provides data processing and
scientific/technical computations to all units of the AMSIC as well
as the development and use of computational models, simulations and
data processing systems.

        *  Advanced Sensors Directorate - acquires and analyzes
        imagery, SIGNIT, and HUMINT data in support of the AMSIC's
        scientific and technical intelligence production effort.

        *  Land Combat Missile Systems Directorate  - produces
        scientific and technical intelligence concerning single and
        integrated short-range ballistic missile (SRMB) and antitank
        guided missile (ATGM) weapon systems, as well as providing
        threat support to the Department of the Army for projected
        intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and precision
        guided weapons (PGWs) systems.

        *  Tactical Air Defense Directorate - produces the same
        intelligence for single and integrated Tactical Air Defense
        weapons systems, including projected systems and
        modifications.  Also, determines the state of the art in
        foreign tactical weapons systems technologies; command and
        control, communications, R & D organizations, personalities,
        capabilities and programs which can effect present or
        projected systems needed by U.S. Tactical Air Defense
        Forces.


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