The program has no magic formula, he said, and there has been no expensive initiative. The effort starts at the top and is reinforced through the lowest level of supervision, he said. In the past year, the command provided domestic and foreign terrorist awareness training to every member of the command. They have replaced the need for classroom settings and bringing in subject matter experts to teach these classes. Officials from the security police, office of special investigations and intelligence, and command and control divisions meet daily to advise the commander, he said.
Similar groups meet at each command installation.
These working groups disseminate information to wing leaders. Intelligence produces weekly terrorism summaries and monthly country assessments used for planning every mission from a single flight to a major contingency, he said. Command officials produced more than 175 location assessments and currently maintain a data base for 243 countries and specific geographic locations for command customers worldwide. The command has also developed a program to protect flight lines. A multilayered approach makes undetected penetration of command flight lines much harder for terrorists, Heumann said.