SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (USTCNS) --- "Global…Real-world…Every day" - reflecting the diverse operations of USTRANSCOM, the Intelligence Directorate provides responsive, multi-faceted intelligence support to command operators and warfighters across DOD in peace, crisis and war.
While "intel" support takes on many forms, the J2 mission centers on supporting transporters and warfighters with timely, accurate and useful intelligence integral to the planning and execution of defense transportation operations.
J2 supports command customers in at least three key dimensions: providing USTRANSCOM decision-makers with 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week (24/7) intelligence threat warning; furnishing planners, operators and logisticians with the basic transportation intelligence necessary to craft contingency and deliberate plans; and producing/updating assessments/data on global seaports to benefit the operational and intelligence communities at large.
All of this must be done to meet the varied requirements posed by each level of operations ranging from peace to war.
Overall, J2 is global in outlook, serves operators with real-world missions, and our customers are in harm's way every day.
To address this demanding charter, the J2 staff is comprised of approximately 164 military and civilian personnel divided into five divisions.
The Joint Intelligence Center - Transportation (JICTRANS/J2-J), the largest functional entity (with nearly 100 members assigned), is responsible for all substantive intelligence output and specializes in support to global lift operations and the production of transportation intelligence.
JICTRANS routinely interfaces with the command & control and planning elements within USTRANSCOM (such as TCJ3/J4's Mobility Control Center), the component commands (for example, AMC's Threat Working Group and the Tactical Airlift Control Center), and with planning elements at the regional commands on intelligence matters involving operations, as well as with the national-level and unified command intelligence production centers regarding transportation intelligence production efforts.
JICTRANS mans the joint 24/7 USTRANSCOM Intelligence Watch 365 days a year to provide continuous support to the commander in chief and his staff, the three component commands, the Defense Courier Service, and over 500 worldwide subordinate units. This watch is unique in its worldwide scope, rather than a particular area of focus.
Current intelligence personnel constantly monitor an array of worldwide activities that may impact strategic lift assets including political and military developments; potential humanitarian crises/natural disasters; and conventional, terrorist, insurgent, criminal, foreign intelligence and other threats.
Products include daily assessments, weekly briefings and near-real-time intelligence updates concerning predictive intelligence, the operational impact of world events and emergent crises for the commands' senior-level decision-makers on issues affecting global strategic transportation.
JICTRANS' production efforts also feature transportation intelligence. In particular, JICTRANS is charged with primary production responsibility for seaports worldwide under DOD's Intelligence Production Program.
Accordingly, JICTRANS' transportation analysts synthesize a wide variety of classified and open source information to maintain a classified on-line military database of port facility information for worldwide retrieval.
Another major facet of production by JICTRANS is timely in-depth analysis of high-resolution images accessed from national technical means for inclusion in briefings and products. JICTRANS also produces multimedia products and videos as "stand-alone" products or as supplements to other "intel" production. JICTRANS products are available on classified Web-based systems to afford convenient access to command and external customers.
Co-located with JICTRANS, the Counterintelligence Support Office (J2-C) works virtually all counterintelligence and counterterrorism issues in support of force protection concerns involving global operations.
The Special Security Office (J2-S) performs all special security tasks for all Scott AFB customers, such as certifying/verifying Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access and ensuring work spaces and office equipment meet SCI security standards.
The Intelligence Systems Division (J2-Y) operates the USTRANSCOM intelligence computer and communications systems, a complex 24/7 responsibility involving some three-dozen systems and hundreds of users. In particular, this division manages SCI intelligence systems for USTRANSCOM and the three component commands. Additionally, this office supports secure video teleconference suites with worldwide connectivity for command use.
The Plans and Programs Division (J2-P) handles intelligence strategic planning, financial programming, execution of funds, exercise and contingency planning and management of human resources - in short, "intel" manpower, personnel and training.
Complementing the J2 staff, the directorate also hosts a significant cadre of "non-roster" intelligence players, including representatives of national intelligence agencies: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), National Security Agency (NSA), National Imagery & Mapping Agency (NIMA), and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
Furthermore, a small number of Service Intelligence personnel are assigned to support J2 needs, such as the Cryptologic Support Group (CSG). Including contractors, intelligence personnel assigned to USTRANSCOM total approximately 230 personnel. In addition, Reserve component assets (i.e., JTRU/0169) add 52 military reservists to augment J2 operations in a variety of capacities.
In the unceasing effort to further improve intelligence support, J2 continues to pursue various initiatives, such as the recently-developed Ports & Airfield Collaborative Environment (PACE) to afford user-friendly, on-line retrieval of classified port and airfield infrastructure data for operators across the Department of Defense.
In addition, the recent introduction of imagery-based Seaport Force Protection Graphics provides yet another on-line resource furnishing key information for numerous customers.
With USTRANSCOM engaged in wide-ranging, pressing missions on a daily basis, J2 personnel continuously take on the challenge to provide effective intelligence support for command and other DoD customers encompassing a variety of dynamic mission requirements.
Operational/customer support is the thread which ties all that J2 does - "Global…Real-world…Every day".
