Applied Intelligence Office (TPF)

The Applied Intelligence Office is a classified access program under ONI Section Four. It is a unique intelligence unit formed to conduct intelligence operations based on requirements by the Section Chief. It is focused on collecting strategic and operational intelligence on behalf of the Section. Due to the focus on intelligence collection, individuals and small teams assigned to the office often deploy with a cover while operating in contested and denied areas. The office is often known by an assortment of callsigns and codenames to have high counterintelligence and compartmentalization ratings within ONI.
==Organization==
Given the decentralized and compartmentalized structure of the unit, there is no clear and definitive table of organization. The Office is often known as Control by Staff Officers and referenced often during communications with the Commanding Officer and subordinate personnel. The nature of employing deep infiltration often leads to a handler and operative structure where the Handler can be a commissioned, warrant or non-commissioned officer, depending on their experience and qualifications. Operatives, also called Enovy or Cell, are individuals selected to conduct missions. In rare cases where a ship crew will be detailed, they are called Counsels and are sheep-dipped into the unit.
The unit is headed by a Commander or Lieutenant Colonel and personally selected by the Section Chief or Deputy Section Chief. Given the missions, senior rankings of NCOs and Warrant Officers are often found to fill the ranks given their knowledge and skillsets. It is one of the few organizations that recruits from across the UNSC Armed Forces and focuses on finding the right people. The unit has close ties to the which helps with building covers and conducting signature reduction missions around a deployed asset.
Individuals deployed tend to complete a short-term or long-term rotation where they may spend six months to four years in place. Contact with the UNSC is forbidden unless cover is blown and individuals often operate alone to prevent counterintelligence operations from catching wind of them. Training for a rotation can take as short as six-weeks to one-year depending on the individual and their skills. The unit's operational activities are considered to be unnatural given their lack of oversight on operatives and the free reign an operative has to complete their mission.
==Known Members==
*CPO Samuel-B256 - March 2568 to July 2568 - Location: Venezia - Cover Status: Intact
*ENS Andra Kearsarge - 256X - Location: Meredith Freeport - Cover Status: Intact