Arm.    regulation  10-86 
Organization  snd  Functions 
United  States 
Army  Intelligence 
Agency 
Headquarters 
Department  of  the  Army 
Washington,  DC 
27  February  1986
AR  10-86 
United  States  Army  Intelligence  Agency 
This  edition  is  the  first  printing  of  AR  10-86,  as  an  UPDATE  publication.  It 
covers  the  mission  (para  4)  and  principal  functions  (para  6)  of  the  United 
States  Army  Intelligence  Agency  (USAIA)  and  reflects  a  command  realignment  of 
the  U.S.  Army  Missile  Intelligence  Agency.  It  sets  forth  command  and  staff 
relationships  (para  7)  with  the  Department  of  Defense  (DOD)  and  other  Army 
elements  and  prescribes  functional  responsibilities  of  the  Commander  (USAIA).
Headquarters 
Department  of  the  Army 
Washington,  DC 
27  February  1985 
*Army  Regulation  10-86 
Effective  1  April  1966 
Organization  and  Functions 
United  States  Army  Intelligence  Agency 
Trus  UPDATE  printing  publishes  a  new  regula- 
tion, which  is  effective  1  April  1 986. 
By  Order  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Army: 
JOHN  A.  WICKHA.M.  JR. 
General,  United  States  Army 
Chief  of  Staff 
Official: 
MILDRED  E.  HEDBERG 
Brigadier  General,  United  States  Army 
The  Adjutant  General 
Summary.  This  regulation  covers  the  mis-" 
sion  and  principal  functions  of  the  United 
States  Army  Intelligence  Agency,  a  field  op- 
erating agency  of  the  Assistant  Chief  of 
Staff  for  Intelligence,  and  reflects  a  com- 
mand realignment  of  the  U.S.  Army  Missile 
Intelligence  Agency  (redesignated  as  the 
United  States  Army  Missile  and  Space  In- 
telligence Center),  the  U.S.  Army  Foreign 
Science  and  Technology  Center,  and  the 
U.S.  Army  Intelligence  and  Threat  Analysis 
Center. 
Applicability.  This  regulation  applies  to 
the  Active  Army,  the  Army  National 
Guard,  and  the  U.S.  Army  Reserve. 
Impact  on  New  Manning  System.  This 
regulation  does  not  contain  information  that 
affects  the  New  Manning  System. 
Internal  control  systems.  This  regula- 
tion is  not  subject  to  the  requirements  of 
AR  1 1-2.  It  does  not  contain  internal  con- 
trol provisions. 
Supplementation.  Supplementation  of 
this  regulation  and  establishment  of  forms 
other  than  DA  forms  are  prohibited  without 
prior  approval  from  HQDA(DAMI-FI), 
WASH  DC  20310-1080. 
interim  changes.  Interim  changes  to  this 
regulation  are  not  official  unless  they  are  au- 
thenticated by  The  Adjutant  General.  Users 
will  destroy  interim  changes  on  their  expira- 
tion date  unless  sooner  superseded  or  re- 
scinded. 
Suggested  Improvements.  The  propo- 
nent agency  of  this  regulation  is  the  Office 
of  the  Assistant  Chief  of  Staff  for  Intelli- 
gence. Users  are  invited  to  send  comments 
and  suggested  improvements  on  DA  Form 
2028  (Recommended  Changes  to  Publica- 
tions and  Blank  Forms)  directly  to  HQDA 
(DAMI-FIT),  WASH  DC  20310-1080. 
Distribution.  Distribution  of  this  issue  has 
been  made  in  accordance  with  DA  Form 
12-9A  requirements  for  10-series  publica- 
tions. The  number  of  copies  distributed  to  a 
given  subscriber  is  the  number  of  copies  re- 
quested in  Block  13  of  the  subscriber's  DA 
Form  12-9 A.  AR  10-86  distribution  is  D 
for  Active  Army,  ARNG,  and  for  USAR. 
Contents  (Listed  by  paragraph  number) 
Purpose  •  1 
References  •  2 
Explanation  of  abbreviations  •  3 
Mission  •  4 
Organization  and  concept  of  operations  •  5 
Functions  •  6 
Command  and  staff  relationships  •  7 
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1.  Purpose 
This  regulation  prescribes  the  o^,.  .zation 
and  functions  of  the  United  States  Army  In- 
telligence Agency  (USAIA).  It  sets  forth 
command  and  staff  relationships  with  the 
Department  of  Defense  (DOD)  and  other 
Army  elements  and  prescribes  functional  re- 
sponsibilities of  the  Commander,  USAIA. 
2.  References 
Related  publications  are  listed  below. 
a.  AR  10-5,  Organization  and  Func- 
tions. Department  of  the  Army. 
b.  AR  381-11,  Threat  Support  to  U.S. 
Army  Force.  Combat,  and  Materiel 
Development. 
c  AR  381-19,  Intelligence  Support. 
d.  AR  381-26,  Army  Foreign  Materiel 
Exploitation  Program. 
3.  Explanation  of  abbreviations 
a.  ACSI— Assistant  Chief  of  Staff  for 
Intelligence 
b.  AFM1C— Armed  Forces  Medical  In- 
telligence Center 
c  DA — Department  of  the  Army 
a.  DIA— Defense  Intelligence  Agency 
e.  DOD— Department  of  Defense 
/.  FSTC— United  States  Army  Foreign 
Science  and  Technology  Center 
g.  GDIP—General  Defense  Intelligence 
Program 
h.  HQDA— Headquarters,  Department 
of  the  Army 
i.  ITAC— United  States  Army  Intelli- 
gence and  Threat  Analysis  Center 
;.  MACOM— Major  Army  Command 
k.  MIA— United  States  Army  Missile  In- 
telligence Agency 
/.  MSIC— United  States  Army  Missile 
and  Space  Intelligence  Center  (formerly 
MIA) 
m.  NFIP— National  Foreign  Intelligence 
Program 
n.  NSA— -National  Security  Agency 
o.  RD&A — Research,  Development  and 
Acquisition 
p.  S&TI — Scientific  and  Technical 
Intelligence 
q.  USAIA— United  States  Army  Intelli- 
gence Agency 
r.  USSS—  United  States  SIGINT  System 
«.  Mission 
The  mission  of  USAIA  is  to  — 
a.  Produce  and  disseminate  intelligence 
on  foreign  ground  forces,  ground  force  sys- 
tems, and  related  sciences  and  technologies 
in  response  to  Department  of  the  Army 
(DA)  and  DOD  requirements. 
b.  Provide  threat  support  and  related 
projections  to  the  Army  combat 
development. 
c.  Manage  the  Army  Foreign  Materiel 
Exploitation  Program. 
5.  Organization  and  concept  of 
operations 
The  Commander,  USAIA  accomplishes  the 
mission  through  command  of  the  following 
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a.  The  United  States  Army  Intel?  e 
and  Threat  Analysis  Center  (I"HL  - 
IT  AC'S  mission  is  to  provide  to  DA  and  as 
required  to  DOD,  comprehensive,  general 
intelligence  and  counterintelligence  analysis 
and  production  reflecting  the  capabilities, 
vulnerabilities,  and  threat  posed  by,  or  pro- 
jected for,  foreign  ground  and  security 
forces.  Specific  ITAC  functions  are  shown 
below. 
(1)  Produce  forecasts  and  probability  as- 
sessments of  global  political-military  devel- 
opments that  may  threaten  U.S.  national 
interests  and  result  in  the  employment  of 
U.S.  Army  forces. 
(2)  Produce  assessments  of  current  to  20- 
year  projected  capabilities  and  vulnerabili- 
ties of  those  foreign  military  forces  that  ei- 
ther represent  potential  threats  to  U.S. 
Army  operations  or  constitute  potential  al- 
lies in  support  of  U.S.  Army  operations. 
(3)  Produce  comprehensive  studies  on 
the  military  geography,  history,  culture, 
population,  government,  economy,  and 
armed  forces  of  those  nonallied,  non- War- 
saw Pact  countries  in  which  the  U.S.  Army 
may  be  employed. 
(4)  Produce  intelligence  assessments  and 
provide  threat  support  concerning  current 
and  projected  foreign  ground  force  doctri- 
nal, organizational,  operational,  and  tactical 
concepts. 
(5)  Produce  multidiscipline  counterintel- 
ligence and  international  terrorism  assess- 
ments in  support  of  OPSEC,  SAEDA,  and 
Asmy  security. 
(6)  Provide  national  and  departmental- 
level  imagery  exploitation  support  to  the 
U.S.  Army. 
(7)  Provide  direct  analytical  exchange  be- 
tween the  USAIA  and  the  National  Securi- 
ty Agency  (NSA)  and  authoritative 
representation  to  DA,  interagency  and  in- 
ternational meetings,  conferences  and  work- 
ing groups  in  the  functional  areas  listed  in 
(1)  through  (7)  above. 
b.  United  States  Army  Foreign  Science 
and  Technology  Center  (FSTC).  FSTC's 
mission  is  to  produce  scientific  and  techni- 
cal intelligence  concerning  sciences,  ground 
force  weapon  systems,  and  technologies 
(less  missiles  and  medical)  in  response  to 
valid  intelligence  production  requirements. 
Specific  FSTC  functions  include  the 
following: 
(1)  Produce  timely,  finished,  all-source 
scientific  and  technical  intelligence  (S&TI) 
products  concerning  current  and  projected 
assigned  foreign  ground  force  systems  and 
related  sciences  and  technologies;  and  dis- 
seminate these  products  to  the  user  commu- 
nity in  one  or  more  output  media  such  as 
hard  cover  products,  briefings  (oral  and 
published),  data  base  transfers,  letters, 
messages  and  telephonic  responses. 
(2)  Manage  the  Army  Foreign  Materiel 
Exploitation  Program.  Acquire  foreign  ma- 
teriel embodying  technologies  of  interest  or 
constituting  an  identified  or  potential  threat. 
Provide  data  resulting  from  foreign  nu^eriel 
exploitation  to  RDA  and  intelligence  com- 
munities for  inclusion  in  intelligence  data 
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base,  direct  application  by  materiel  develop- 
ers, and  development  of  doctrine  and 
training. 
(3)  Provide  intelligence  support  such  as 
shown  below. 
(a)  Automated  data  storage,  manipula- 
tion, acquisition,  processing,  translation, 
and  distribution  of  information. 
(b)  Analysis  of  technical  sensor  data. 
(c)  Preparation  of  copy. 
(d)  Provision  of  graphics. 
(e)  Printing. 
(4)  Describe,  explain,  target,  format,  set 
priorities,  and  deliver  scientific  and  techni- 
cal information  gaps  to  action  agencies  for 
collection.  Participate  in  collection  commit- 
tees and  provide  feedback  to  collectors. 
(5)  Develop  and  maintain  technical  capa- 
bility to  accomplish  mission. 
c  United  States  Army  Missile  and  Space 
Intelligence  Center  (MSIC).  MSIC's  mis- 
sion is  to  acquire,  produce,  maintain,  and 
disseminate  scientific  and  technological  in- 
telligence pertaining  to  missile  and  space 
weapons  systems,  subsystems,  components, 
and  activities;  related  sciences  and  technolo- 
gies representing  state-of-the-art  to  support 
DA  and  DOD  requirements.  MSIC  func- 
tions include  the  following: 
(1)  Advise  and  assist  the  Commander, 
U.S.  Army  Intelligence  Agency  in  the  devel- 
opment of  the  DA  position  on  missile  and 
space  S&TI  and  in  presentation  of  that  posi- 
tion to  the  intelligence  community. 
(2)  Advise  arid  assist  the  Defense  Intelli- 
gence Agency  and  other  DOD  elements  in 
the  development  of  the  DOD  missile  and 
space  intelligence  position  and  in  formula- 
tion of  National  Intelligence  Estimates 
(NIE)  through  designated  channels. 
(3)  Provide  commanders  of  tenant  activi- 
ties located  on  Redstone  Arsenal,  Alabama, 
and  the  Commander,  U.S.  Strategic  Defen  »e 
Command  (SDC)  with  S&TI  and  foreign 
operations  information  that  affects  the  as- 
signed missions  of  those  activities 
(4)  Plan,  organize,  and  manage  the  U.S. 
Army  Development  and  Acquisition  of 
Threat  Simulators  (ADATS)  program  and 
the  DOD  CROSS  BO  W-S  program.  (The 
acronym,  CROSSBOW-S,  when  spelled  out 
becomes  classified  and  therefore  is  not  nec- 
essary in  the  scope  of  this  regulation.) 
6.  Functions 
The  functions  of  the  Commander,  USAIA 
are  shown  below: 
a.  Develop  a  single  Army  intelligence 
production  and  dissemination  program  that 
focuses  on  priority  defense  needs,  reduces 
unnecessary  requirements  and  tasks,  and 
improves  the  finished  intelligence  product. 
b.  Assess  the  source  and  priority  of  pro- 
duction requirements;  levels  of  required  ef- 
fort; capabilities  and  activities;  and  the 
correlation  among  resources,  output,  and 
consumer  satisfaction. 
c.  Recommend  to  the  ACSI  policy  re- 
garding intelligence  production  and  dissemi- 
nation within  the  Army. 
d.  Provide  threai  analysis  support  to  Ar- 
my combat  developers.
e.  Determine  Army  counterintelligence 
production  needs  and  manage  a  system  to 
accomplish  this  production. 
/  Assign  collaborative  responsibilities  to 
Production  Centers  when  appropriate  for 
the  accomplishment  of  production  or  for 
the  management  of  functional  requirements. 
g.  Validate  for  the  Armed  Forces  Medi- 
cal Intelligence  Center  (AFMIC)  Army- 
unique  requirements  for  medical  intelligence 
products. 
h.  Serve  as  Army  focal  joint  for  the  dis- 
semination of  intelligence  and  intelligence 
related  products  for  DOD  and  non-DOD 
agencies. 
L  Validate  Army  requests  for  United 
States  SIGINT  System  (USSS)  products. 
/.  Manage  selected  Army  National  For- 
eign Intelligence  Program  (NFIP)  resources 
and  other  Army  program  sources  distribut- 
ed to  USAIA. 
k.  As  directed,  manage,  coordinate,  or 
otherwise  support  major  signatures  and  sim- 
ulations programs  for  DA  and  DOD. 
/.  Provide  to  the  Army  the  intelligence 
support  required  to  assess  the  impact  of  in- 
ternational technology  transfer. 
m.  Analyze  missions,  functions,  organi- 
zational structure,  workload,  and  capabili- 
ties of  existing  or  proposed  Army 
production  organizations,  and,  as  GDIP 
Program  Element  Director,  recommend  ap- 
propriate programming  actions. 
n.  Coordinate  the  development  and  ap- 
plication of  automated  data  processing  and 
communications  into  the  production  and 
dissemination  process. 
7.  Command  and  staff  relationships 
a.  USAIA  is  a  field  operating  agency  of 
the  ACSI.  Directives,  policy,  planning  and 
program  guidance,  and  funding  are  issued 
to  the  Commander,  USAIA  through  or  by 
the  ACSI. 
b.  The  Commander,  USAIA  and  the  re- 
spective center  commanders  are  authorized 
direct  contact  with  agencies,  commands, 
and  activities  in  the  following  areas: 
(1)  Army  Staff  agencies  and  MACOMs 
for  coordination  of  command,  administra- 
tive, and  operational  matters  related  to  the 
production  and  dissemination  of  intelligence 
products  within  the  Army. 
(2)  Director,  DIA  on  matters  of  intelli- 
gence production  and  dissemination  within 
the  framework  of  responsibilities  delegated 
by  HQDA  to  USAIA. 
(3)  Director,  NSA  on  matters  relating  to 
Army  requests  for  USSS  products. 
(4)  Members  of  the  NFIP  committee  or 
any  participant  in  the  NFIP  for  issues  relat- 
ing to  intelligence  production  as  part  of  the 
NFIP  programming  and  budget  cycle. 
(5)  Office  of  The  Surgeon  General  on 
matters  of  intelligence  production  within 
the  framework  c£  HQDA  responsibilities  as 
executive  agent  for  the  AFMIC. 
(6)  Army  elements  outside  the  continen- 
tal United  States  not  subordinated  to  a  uni- 
fied command  or  MACOM  for  matters 
related  to  dissemination  of  foreign  intelli- 
'  Vrmy  components  of  unified  and 
sp  «d  commands  on  matters  relating  to 
the*validation  of  requests  for  USSS  intelli- 
gence products. 
(8)  Office  of  the  Chief,  Army  Reserve  for 
matters  affecting  the  training,  readiness,  and 
operational  tasking  of  U.S.  Army  Reserve 
Military  Intelligence  Detachments 
(Strategic). 
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