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Mission of United States Navy
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Maintain, Train and Equip combat–ready naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression and maintaining freedom of the seas.
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NCA
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National Command Authority (NCA)
- consists of the President and the Secretary of Defense. - term made obsolete by SECDEF Rumsfeld. |
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All 10 US (Functional and Geographical) unified commands under the Department of Defense
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- USAFRICOM, USCENTCOM, USCYBERCOM, USEUCOM, USNORTHCOM, USPACOM, USSOCOM, USSOUTHCOM, USSTRATCOM, USTRANSCOM
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What are the 3 Functional Commands?
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– USCYBERCOM, USSOCOM, and USTRANSCOM
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OPCON
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- tactical control (TACON) of unit.
- directs assigned forces to accomplish specific missions or tasks. |
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ADCON
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- administrative control (ADCON) of unit.
- direction or exercise of authority over subordinate or organizations by administrative matters such as personnel management, supply, services, and other matters. |
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Operational Control (OPCON) of FLTCYBERCOM
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USCYBERCOM
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Administrative Control (ADCON) of FLTCYBERCOM
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CNO
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COCOM
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- a Unified Combatant Command (COCOM).
- joint military commands responsible for forces and operations in their regional or functional AOR. - Normally a four star general/admiral, ie. PACOM. |
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Navy COCOM
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- Navy Combatant Command.
- falls under a specific COCOM, ie. PACFLT. |
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FLTCOM
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- each fleet area has an Admiral assigned as the Fleet Commander.
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TYCOM
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- Type Commander.
- responsible for manpower, training, and equipment of forces under their command. |
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PACOM
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- Pacific Command.
- Location: Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii. - Mission: Protects and defends the territory of the US, its people, and its interests by enhancing stability in the Asia-Pacific region. |
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EUCOM
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- European Command.
- Location: Patch Barracks, Vaihingen, Stuttgart, Germany. - Mission: Conducts military operations and builds partner capacity to enhance transatlantic security and defend the homeland forward. |
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SOUTHCOM
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- Southern Command.
- Location: Miami, Florida. - Mission: Ready to conduct joint and combined full-spectrum military operations and support whole-of-government efforts to enhance regional security and cooperation. |
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JFCOM
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- Joint Forces Command.
- Location: was Norfolk, Virginia. - Mission: Provides mission-ready joint-capable forces and supports the development and integration of joint, interagency, and multinational capabilities to meet the present and future operational needs of the joint force. |
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CENTCOM
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- Central Command.
- Location: MacDill AFB, Tampa, Florida. - Mission: Promotes cooperation among nations, responds to crises, and deters or defeats state and non-state aggression. |
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NORTHCOM
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- Northern Command.
- Location: Peterson AFB, Colorado. - Mission: Anticipates and conducts Homeland Defense and Civil Support operations within the assigned area of responsibility to defend, protect, and secure the United States and its interests. |
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SOCOM
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- Special Operations Command.
- Location: MacDill AFB, Tampa, Florida. - Mission: Provide fully capable Special Operations Forces to defend the United States and its interests, synchronize planning of global operations against terrorist networks. |
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TRANSCOM
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- Transportation Command.
- Location: Scott AFB, Illinois. - Mission: Develop and direct the Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise to globally project strategic national security capabilities. |
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STRATCOM
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- Strategic Command.
- Location: Offutt AFB, Nebraska. - Mission: - to provide integrated surveillance and reconnaissance allocation recommendations to the SECDEF. - deter attacks on US vital interests, to ensure US freedom of action in space and cyberspace, to deliver integrated kinetic and non-kinetic effects to include nuclear and information operations, to synchronize global missile defense plans/operations, along with regional combating of weapons of mass destruction plans. |
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AFRICOM
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- Africa Command.
- Location: Moehringen, Stuttgart, Germany. - Mission: conducts sustained security engagement through military to military programs, military sponsored activities, and other military operations as directed to promote a stable and secure African environment in support of U.S. foreign policy. |
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USCYBERCOM
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- Cyber Command.
- Location: Fort Meade, Maryland. - Mission: Plan, coordinate, integrate, synchronize and conduct activities to direct the operations and defense of specified DoD information networks and conduct full spectrum military cyberspace operations. |
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CNO N2/N6
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- Location: Pentagon.
- Mission: CNO N2/N6 is The Director of Naval Intelligence which is the critical link to the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and joint intelligence forums for ensuring Navy Space requirements are fully realized. |
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CNMOC
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- Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command.
- Location: Stennis Space Center, Mississippi. - Mission: Aligned to and focused on the Navy's five warfighting disciplines as well as the support disciplines: Navigation Support, Precise Time and Astrometry Support, Maritime Support. |
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Navy's five warfighting disciplines
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- Anti-Submarine Warfare
- Special Warfare - Mine Warfare - Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance - Strike and Expeditionary Fleet Operations |
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NNWC
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- Naval Network Warfare Command.
- Location: Norfolk, Virginia (NAB Little Creek). - Mission: Deliver integrated cyber mission capabilities in Information Operations, Intelligence, Network Operations and Space that enable war fighters across the full range of military operations. |
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Commander, Reserve Space and Network Warfare Program
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- responsible for sponsoring the reserve Space Cadre and supporting the Navy Space Team.
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JSPOC
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- Joint Space Operations Center.
- Location: Vandenberg AFB, California. - Mission: JSPOC is to provide CDR JFCC SPACE with agile and responsive C2 capabilities to conduct space operations 24/7. |
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NOAA
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- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
- Weather information through the polar operational environment satellite (POES) system. - Geostationary operational environment satellites, and Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). - Locating distress alerts via the search and rescue satellite-aided tracking (SARSAT) system. - contribute to homeland security through global tracking of shipping traffic using commercial satellite programs such as Automatic Identification System and Long Range Identification and Tracking. |
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NAVSOC
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- Naval Space Operations Center.
- Location: Point Mugu, California. - Mission: Responsible for operating, managing, and maintaining assigned satellite systems to provide reliable space-based services in direct support of Navy and joint forces. |
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Navy Cyber Forces
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- NAVCYBERFOR, then Oct 2014 name changed to NAVIDFOR, now NAVIFOR.
- Location: Joint Expeditionary Base East (Fort Story), Little Creek, VA. - Mission: NAVIFOR (INST 1414) Navy's global cyber workforce provides ready forces and equipment in cryptology/signals intelligence, cyber, electronic warfare, information operations, intelligence, networks, and space to support operational commanders ashore and afloat by providing combat-ready information warfare forces, forward deployable, fully trained, properly manned and capably equipped. |
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ONI
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- Office of Naval Intelligence, CO - RADM Robert Sharp.
- Location: Suitland, Maryland. - Mission: To provide global maritime intelligence for the US Navy and other national intelligence organizations. - HOPPER, Faragut, Kennedy, Nimitz. |
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Office of the Oceanographer/Navigator of the Navy
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- Location: Rockville, Maryland.
- Mission: Promote communication among oceanographers, spread knowledge through research and education, and to provide a constituency for building consensus amongst the sub-disciplines of the field. |
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2nd Fleet
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HQ - Norfolk, Virginia
- Atlantic |
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3rd Fleet
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HQ - San Diego, California
- Eastern to Central Pacific |
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4th Fleet
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HQ - Mayport, Florida
- South/Central America & Caribbean |
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5th Fleet
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HQ - Manama, Bahrain
- Middle East/Arabian Gulf |
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6th Fleet
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HQ - Naples, Italy
- Mediterranean/Gaeta |
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7th Fleet
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HQ - Yokosuka, Japan
- West Pacific/Indian Ocean |
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10th Fleet
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HQ - Ft Meade, Maryland
- NETWARCOM is Worldwide |
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Task Element (TE)
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- a component of a naval task unit organized by the commander of a task unit or higher authority.
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Task Unit (TU)
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- a component of a naval task group organized by the commander of a task group or higher authority.
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Task Group (TG)
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- a component of a naval task force organized by the commander of a task force or higher authority.
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Task Force (TF)
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- a component of a fleet organized by the commander of a task fleet or higher authority for the accomplishment of a specific task or tasks (joint forces or allied navies may also be CTF Combined Task Force).
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Information Warfare Core Ratings
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AG, CTI, CTM, CTN, CTR, CTT, IT, IS
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Aerographer's Mate AG
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- observe, collect, record and analyze meteorological and oceanographic data.
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Cryptologic Technicians (Interpretive) CTI
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- conduct Information Operations (IO) using foreign language skills and advanced computer systems.
- collect, analyze, and exploit foreign language communications signals. |
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Cryptologic Technicians (Maintenance) CTM
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- perform preventive and corrective maintenance on electrical and electronic cryptologic and ancillary systems.
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Cryptologic Technicians (Networks) CTN
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- monitor, identify, collect and analyze information.
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Cryptologic Technicians (Collection) CTR
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- operate state-of-the-art computer systems to conduct Information Operations.
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Cryptologic Technicians (Technical) CTT
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- operate and maintain electronic sensors and computer systems of Electronic Intelligence (ELINT).
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Intelligence Specialists IS
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- assist in every phase of the planning, collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination of intelligence information.
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Information System Technicians IT
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- perform core and specialty functions of Communications Operations, Message Processing, Network Administration and Security.
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NCTAMS
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- Naval and Computer Telecommunication Area Master Station
- Norfolk, Virginia - Wahiawa, Hawaii |
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NCTAMS LANT
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- Norfolk, Virginia.
- provide secure and reliable, classified and unclassified, voice, messaging, video, and data telecommunications to Naval forces in support of Command, Control, Computer, Communications, and Intelligence (C4I). |
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NCTAMS PAC
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- Wahiawa, Hawaii.
- provide diversified communications, network monitoring and control, and electronic maintenance to fleet units and all echelons of shore commands in Hawaii and across the Pacific. |
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C4ISR
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- Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
- To degrade or interrupt an adversary's information support systems and structure, denying the enemy knowledge of our capabilities and intentions while maintaining operations security. |
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DISA
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- Defense Information Systems Agency.
- a Combat Support Agency providing command and control capabilities and enterprise infrastructure. |
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NASIC
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- National Air and Space Intelligence Center.
- provides intelligence directly to operational military units, national and DoD decision makers and the research and acquisition community, which develops and sustains US air and space capabilities. |
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NCDOC
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- Navy Cyber Defense Operations Center.
– provides 24/7 protection to Navy's computer networks and systems and their 700,000 users worldwide. |
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ODNI
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- Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
- Head of the Intelligence Community (IC), oversees and directs the implementation of the National Intelligence Program (budget) and acting as the principal advisor to the President, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council for intelligence matters related to the national security. |
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DIA
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- Defense Intelligence Agency.
- provides timely, objective, and cogent military intelligence to warfighters, defense planners, and defense and national security policymakers. |
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NSA
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- National Security Agency.
- produces foreign signals intelligence SIGINT mission data to ensure the protection of national security. |
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CIA
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- Central Intelligence Agency.
- produces foreign human intelligence (HUMINT) collection, all-source analysis, and the production of political and economic intelligence. |
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NGA
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- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
- provides timely, relevant, and accurate geospatial intelligence (GEOINT), measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT), and meteorological and oceanographic (METOC) data. |
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DHS
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- Department Homeland Security.
- Directorate for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection analyzes the vulnerabilities of US critical infrastructure, assesses the scope of terrorist threats to the US homeland, and provides input to the Homeland Security Advisory System. |
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FBI
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- Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- produces Counter Intelligence and counterterrorism operations in the United States. - CI operations overseas are coordinated with the CIA. |
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DEA
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- Drug Enforcement Administration.
- enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations of the US, anyone involved in the growing, manufacture, or distribution of controlled substances appearing in or destined for illicit traffic in the United States. |
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DOE
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- Department Of Energy.
- analyzes foreign information relevant to US energy policies and nonproliferation issues. |
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DOS
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- Department Of State.
- the State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) performs intelligence analysis and produces studies on a wide range of political and economic topics essential to foreign policy determination and execution (News). |
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DOT
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- Department Of Treasury.
- analyzes foreign intelligence related to US economic policy and participates with the DOS in the overt collection of general foreign economic information. |
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NASA
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- Pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.
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NRO
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- National Reconnaissance Office.
- integrating unique and innovative space-based reconnaissance tech, and the engineering, development, acquisition and operation of space reconnaissance systems and related intelligence activities. |
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USAF role in the Intelligence Community
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- Air Force Director of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (AF/XOI).
- responsible for intelligence policy, planning, programming, evaluation and resource allocation. |
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USA role in the Intelligence Community
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- Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (G-2).
- exercises staff supervision over the US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). |
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USMC role in the Intelligence Community
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- The Director of Intelligence is the Commandant's principal intelligence staff officer and the functional manager for intelligence, counterintelligence, and cryptologic material.
- allocates resources for tactical exploitation of national capabilities (TENCAP). |
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USN role in the Intelligence Community
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- Director of Naval Intelligence (DNI).
- exercises staff supervision over the Office of Naval Intelligence. |
