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USTRANSCOM CI team receives OSI award

The Air Force Office of Special Investigations, 3rd Field Investigations Region recently announced its Annual Award winners for 2012 and U.S. Transportation Command members were among those honored.

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SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. – The Air Force Office of Special Investigations, 3rd Field Investigations Region recently announced its Annual Award winners for 2012 and U.S. Transportation Command members Special Agent Rich Barbour and Counterintelligence Analyst Eric Jacobsen were among those honored.


Barbour and Jacobsen were presented the Team Award for their work with the command’s Defense Critical Infrastructure Program or DCIP.


USTRANSCOM was selected as the test case for counterintelligence support to the DCIP, Defense Transportation Sector due to the significant reliance on non-Department of Defense-owned transportation infrastructure. 


In June of 2011, AFOSI entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with USTRANSCOM to provide dedicated counterintelligence support to DCIP, Defense Transportation Sector.  Barbour and Jacobsen were assigned in October and began learning what the program was about and how they would provide support.


“DCIP is an identification process,” Jacobsen said, “and then a protection and mission assurance program similar to antiterrorism or COOP (continuity of operations), whereby the DOD has selected assets, whether they be DOD or civilian, that the DOD relies upon to execute missions.”


Jacobsen explained that within the transportation sector, assets could be airfields, ports, bridges, roads, rails, and anything that enable them to work.


“Within the transportation sector there roughly 300 assets or identified infrastructure points at 100 locations worldwide, Jacobsen said.  “Rich and I, because we’re focused on the counterintelligence side of the house, don’t get involved at all in identification of assets that are really important to the DOD.


“But once an asset is identified within the transportation sector,” Jacobsen continued, “then we seek to ensure the best possible counterintelligence support is provided to the associated individuals, the infrastructure itself and the systems that are utilized.”


Jacobsen and Barbour were chosen as the top team, not only among CI but among all region 3 teams including those specializing in fraud or criminal areas of the career fields.


“I think Eric and I won the award because those in charge realize how we took a function not previously in place, created a plan to execute a mission which was non-existent, and made that huge challenge into a successful program,” Barbour said.


According to Jacobsen, the duo has been working together for more than 18 months and has conducted engagements across the country and around the world with their intelligence community counterparts from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, combatant commands and intelligence executives.


“Throughout 2012, Barbour and Jacobsen not only completed detailed, local threat assessments of key transportation infrastructure,” said Wayne Carson, USTRANSCOM Critical Infrastructure Program branch chief, “but they have conducted education and outreach with hundreds  of DOD, other federal agencies, state and local law enforcement, State Department, and private stakeholders.”


“We directly briefed over 600 individuals on activities that we’re doing,” Jacobsen said, “the lessons that we’ve learned, ways that we can help them protect the assets that are important to us.


Carson also said the team helped bridge gaps between DOD installations and individual state-operated intelligence fusion centers, and other local law enforcement entities.


“One of the things we’ve been able to do is reach out and work directly with our non-DOD partners – CIA, FBI, Coast Guard, DHS, Transportation Security Administration,” Jacobsen said, “and at the state level, California, Washington, North Carolina and Texas fusion centers and local law enforcement and county sheriffs.


“It's been rewarding and humbling to take a position which offered no prior training or anyone to benchmark off of and make it into what it is today,” Barbour said.


 


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