Army CI-2013

[Pilakia]

Threat_Integration_Center  


Effective June 1, 2013, the U.S. Army initiates the transformation of the
Antiterrorism Operations and Intelligence Cell (ATOIC) to the Army Threat
Integration Center (ARTIC) to integrate, fuse, analyze, and disseminate
all-source threat information for commanders and force protection (FP)
official at all levels in order to provide shared situational awareness,
enable effective risk-based decisions, and protect Army personnel, assets,
and information worldwide.

Upon reaching full operating capability, March 31, 2014, the ARTIC will
serve as the Army's global threat information sharing hub, focused on
internal and external threats, providing real-time support for current
operations. The essential tasks for the ARTIC mission include:

�Expanding threat-related information sharing based upon current threat
integration capabilities.
�Improving the efficiency of information sharing, reducing redundancies
among threat information products, and providing a fully coordinated
indications and warning and fused reporting process.
Establishment of the ARTIC also will provide the following functional
capabilities:

�Sharing all-source threat information
�Accessing threat reporting and suspicious activity reporting
�Creating business process rules and a standing operating procedure
�Fusing reporting from Military Criminal Investigation Organizations and
counterintelligence agencies
�Retaining and disseminating threat information
�Appointing a single executive agent for threat reporting system
�Creating policy to share real-time unclassified threat information
�Building and maintaining an insider threat analytic and response capability

[Kenneth Minton]

A very interesting announcement.  I wonder if this is part of an apparent move to combine the services criminal and intelligence agencies.  As you know the Air Force and Navy already have those two functions in one organization (as does the FBI).  I believe most of the military investigative agencies, while maintaining their separate organizations, are now being co-located.
Terrorism has both an intelligence and a criminal side, so having multi-organizations working together makes a whole lot of sense.