United States Army Intelligence and Security Command

U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command
CSM Kyle J Gillam
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The United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) is a direct reporting unit that conducts intelligence, security, and information operations for United States Army commanders, partners in the Intelligence Community, and national decision-makers. INSCOM is headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

INSCOM contributes units to the

As a direct reporting unit, INSCOM reports directly to the Chief of Staff of the Army.

Mission

INSCOM collects intelligence information in all intelligence disciplines to provide unit commanders with intelligence for the battlefield and the focus of combat power. The organization also conducts intelligence production activities, ranging from intelligence preparation of the battlefield to situation development, SIGINT analysis, imagery exploitation, and science and technology intelligence production. INSCOM also has significant responsibilities in

INSCOM's stated vision for operations includes: (1) conducting and supporting relevant intelligence, security and information operations for U.S. Army, joint and combined forces; (2) optimizing national/theater/tactical partnerships; (3) exploiting leading edge technology; and (4) meeting the challenge of today, tomorrow and the 21st Century.

Structure

• 1st Information Operations Command (Land)

Located at Fort Belvoir, 1st IO CMD provides multi-disciplinary Information Operations (IO) support to the component and major commands of the United States Army.

• 66th Military Intelligence Brigade

Located in

U.S. European Command

.

• 116th Military Intelligence Brigade (Aerial Intelligence)

Located at

Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A).^[3]

Located at

U.S. Army Africa and United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM or AFRICOM) in order to set the intelligence architecture for the theater, disrupt transnational and trans-regional threats, and promote regional stability in Africa while building and maintaining intelligence readiness.^[4]

• 300th Military Intelligence Brigade (Linguist)

Provides trained and ready linguist and military intelligence soldiers to commanders from brigade through Army level. Located in Draper, Utah.

• 470th Military Intelligence Brigade

Located at

U.S. Southern Command

, and other national intelligence agencies.

• 500th Military Intelligence Brigade

The 500th Military Intelligence Brigade located at

U.S. Pacific Command

area of responsibility.

• 501st Military Intelligence Brigade

The 501st Military Intelligence Brigade supports combined forces operations in Korea.^[5]

• 513th Military Intelligence Brigade

Located at

U.S. Central Command, U.S. Southern Command

, and other theater Army commands.

• 704th Military Intelligence Brigade

Conducts synchronized full-spectrum signals intelligence, computer network and information assurance operations directly and through the National Security Agency to satisfy national, joint, combined and Army information superiority requirements.

• 706th Military Intelligence Group

Formerly the 116th Military Intelligence Group, it is located at Fort Eisenhower, Georgia. It provides personnel, intelligence assets and technical support to conduct signals intelligence operations within the National Security Agency/Central Security Service Georgia (NSA/CSS Georgia) and worldwide.^[6]

• 780th Military Intelligence Brigade

Located at Fort Meade, the 780th conducts expeditionary and remote cyber attack, cyber exploitation, and cyber defense operations of Army and Defense information networks.

• 902nd Military Intelligence Group

Provides direct and general counterintelligence support to Army activities and major commands.

• Army Cryptologic Office (ACO)

Located at Fort Meade, ACO serves as the Army G2 and Service Cryptologic Component (SCC) representative to provide expert cryptologic leadership, support, guidance and advice to U.S. Army Warfighters and Intelligence leaders. Lead the Army’s Cryptologic effort to satisfy Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) requirements by leveraging NSA Extended Enterprise, Intelligence Community, Sister Services and Service Laboratories. Ensure timely and effective support to operations by providing optimized capabilities, training and resources.

• Army Field Support Center (AFSC)

Located at Fort Meade, AFSC provides specialized operational, administrative and personnel management support to Department of the Army and other Department of Defense Services and Agencies as directed.

• Army Operations Group (AOG)

Located at Fort Meade, AOG conducts Human Intelligence (HUMINT) operations and provide expertise in support of ground component priority intelligence requirements using a full spectrum of human intelligence collection methods.

• Central Clearance Facility (CCF)

Located at Fort Meade, the CCF serves as the U.S. Army’s executive agency for personnel security determinations in support of Army missions world-wide.

• National Ground Intelligence Center

Located in Charlottesville, Virginia, NGIC is the Defense Department's primary producer of ground forces technical intelligence and is the Army's premier provider of intelligence products.

• Army Geospatial Intelligence Battalion (AGB) Located in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency headquarters on Fort Belvoir, Virginia, AGB is the primary source for Army geospatial intelligence products and joint GEOINT operations.

History

Merger and creation of INSCOM

On 1 January 1977, the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) was organized at

On 1 October 1977, the former U.S. Army Intelligence Agency headquarters was integrated into INSCOM. The command established a unified intelligence production element, the Intelligence and Threat Analysis Center, on 1 January 1978. Additionally, INSCOM assumed command of three military intelligence groups located overseas: the 66th Military Intelligence Group in Germany, the 470th Military Intelligence Group in Panama, and the 500th Military Intelligence Group in Japan. These groups were transformed into multidisciplinary units by incorporating former Army Security Agency assets into the previously existing elements. A fourth such group, the 501st Military Intelligence Brigade,^[5] was soon organized in South Korea. All of these groups were eventually reorganized and re-designated as brigades.

Parapsychologic research

In association with the

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List of commanding generals

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2021)

No.	Commanding General		Term
	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Duration
-		Major General David B. Lacquement	2007[7]	October 16, 2009	~2 years, 288 days
-		Major General Mary A. Legere	October 16, 2009[8]	March 5, 2012	2 years, 141 days
-	Stephen G. Fogarty	March 5, 2012[9]	May 30, 2014	2 years, 86 days
-		Major General George J. Franz III	May 30, 2014[10]	June 27, 2016	2 years, 28 days
-		Major General Christopher S. Ballard	June 27, 2016[11]	June 11, 2018	1 year, 349 days
-		Major General Gary W. Johnston	June 11, 2018[12]	July 16, 2021	3 years, 35 days
-	Michele H. Bredenkamp	July 16, 2021[7]	December 14, 2023	2 years, 151 days
-		Major General Timothy D. Brown	December 14, 2023	Incumbent	119 days

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