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Chapter VI
6. National Intelligence Support Team
The CCMD JIOC will facilitate national-theater dialogue with the DIA forward element
(DFE) to identify and provide NIST capabilities that leverage national-level, all-source
intelligence support from throughout the intelligence community (IC) to deployed
commanders during crisis or contingency operations. The NIST utilizes liaison teams from
NSA, NGA, DIA, and CIA, and incorporates other IC participants as required based on the
needs of the CCDR and CJTF. It supports intelligence operations at the JTF HQ and is
traditionally collocated with the JTF J-2. In direct support of the JTF, the NIST will perform
functions as designated by the JTF J-2.
For more details concerning a NIST, refer to JP 2-01, Joint and National Intelligence
Support to Military Operations.
7. Supported Combatant Commander’s Joint Intelligence Operations Center
a. The CCMD JIOC fuses national-level, operational-level, and tactical-level
intelligence, and acts as the CCDR’s intelligence support mechanism to deployed JTFs, as
required.
b. It is the focal point for in-theater intelligence analysis, production, dissemination,
support to operation planning, and RFI processing and validation.
c. The CCMD JIOC support to JTF operations includes, but is not limited to, providing
a complete air, space, ground, and maritime adversary situation by integrating all intelligence
information.
d. While in reality, a particular CCMD JIOC may not be able to satisfy every JTF RFI,
it will coordinate support from external intelligence organizations for those it is unable to
fulfill.
8. Joint Intelligence Support Element
a. The JISE integrates intelligence operations with operational and planning functions
and performs common intelligence functions. Figure VI-3 shows a notional JISE. As
shown, the JISE is the principal J-2 organization integrating with joint operations and plans.
b. By design, the JISE is scalable to meet the needs of the JTF, and it is tailored to fit
the operational environment based on identified CJTF requirements.
c. The JISE is composed of analytical experts and analysis teams that provide services
and products required by the CJTF, JTF staff, and components. These all-discipline and allwarfare
specialty analysis teams should be focused on substantive operational intelligence
problems. Analysis teams should take into account pertinent information from all sources; a
JISE capability for all-source analysis is the key to operational intelligence that is timely,
relevant, and complete.
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