Office of Naval Intelligence Task Group Solomon

is a specialist Task Group made up of specialists across all divisions of the Office of Naval Intelligence, civilian contractors, and special forces operators, with the intended purpose to gather intelligence on Covenant society, culture, and language, as well as biological information on the species of the Covenant, and technical details on Covenant materiel, and conduct operations against Covenant forces.
==Role==
==History==
==Sites==
==Branches==
===Branch Alpha; Xeno Intelligence (XENINT)===
Branch Alpha is the first, and perhaps most prominent Branch Task Group Solomon. Branch draws on a mixture of civilian contractors and ONI 
*Xeno Linguistics Department: The main driving force behind efforts to translate the languages of the Covenant, they are dedicated to translating and understanding the myriad languages and dialects of the Covenant. This multi-discipline department is mostly made up of civilian contractors; academics who specialise in linguistics, though with several subtle differences in their fields. ONI spared no expenses in hiring specialists in linguistics, semiotics, lexicology, as well as linguistic software engineers for producing reliable translation software. This department also utilises several specialists from ONI's famous 'Language 1' scheme who excelled in analysing, interpreting, and translating 'post-interstellar' languages such as Sironan. Specialists are usually subdivided into groups focusing on a specific language, with teams usually subdivided into dialects and informal language elements. 
*Xeno Anthropology Department: Closely tied to the Linguistics team, the Xeno Anthropology Department is focused on the study of the Covenant's culture, society, and history. Many experts in these fields have been drafted to create a expert team at understanding the Covenant's culture. Behind this is an ONI team who in turn lean into how their cultural elements can be exploited for humanity's gain. There has been significant investment into integrating the discoveries through this department into ONI's plans for "militarised anthropology" systems based on the CAA's own electronic tools. 
*Xeno Sociology Department: While the smaller of the three 'academic' departments, this department has been tasked with uncovering and understanding the sociology of the Covenant hegemony. This includes understanding their caste system, intra and inter-species relations, as well as understanding their military hierarchy, and unravelling the labyrinthine bureaucracy of the Covenant itself. These studies can be placed into practical use by understanding the social and military rank of opponents, or the branch of the Covenant's ministries that they serve. 
*Psychological Research Group: A benign team name, for the dark underbelly of the XENINT Branch. The PRG is made up of several distributed teams at different ONI Black Sites who handle interrogation of captive. Primarily, they interrogate individuals of interest in the confines of ONI facilities, usually those who have been captured fortuitously or by targetted recovery from the 'Body Snatchers'. They also have teams who perform prisoner interrogations at prisoner of war camps the Covenant hold, and may deploy field teams to accompany Body snatchers when both time and transport are limited. It is their responsibility to develop adaptive interrogation techniques to be able to draw out information from their captives without undue physical harm. Paltry concerns about breach of human rights do not matter when your subjects are not even human. 
*Special Rendition Support: Transport and logistic managers who handle the transport of prisoners across a number of platforms to get them from the dangers of the frontline to the security of an ONI Black Site. These are usually arranged transport on Prowlers, but where this is not possible they have arranged transport through civilian contractors who are part of the Rendition program. 
*Combat Report Analyst Group: An Analyst unit who analyse debriefs and perform special debriefs themselves in extraordinary circumstances. This information is cross referenced with other departments to expand knowledge to that gathered by personal in the field. 
*Psychological Investigation and Exploitation Department: The ONI Psychological Warfare team, they take lessons learned from other branches and departments and apply them to directly damaging the Covenant's morale to continue fighting. During the course of the war they adapted several existing Psychological warfare techniques, such as deployment of white, gray, and black propaganda against Covenant forces and communication networks, and also developed several novel ones such as circulating false hymnals and flooding Covenant networks with Flip Music during sermons. 
*Crossroad Committee: A secret within a secret, the Crossroad Committee was a two pronged attack. They were first of all attempting to create a a double agent, a Covenant member who could be turned to the UNSC's cause. Second was to investigate, and disrupt, any attempt by the Covenant to infiltrate humanity. The former was of only marginal effectiveness, due to near-insurmountable logistical concerns, but the latter had modest results. The Crossroad Committee would become significantly more important in the dangerous post-war environment where they met significantly more success. 
*targetting department (x)
*psyops field team 
*"Bodysnatchers" 
*assassination unit
===Technical Intelligence (TECHINT)===
*asset analysis 
*foreign material exploitation 
*masint 
*systems analysis 
*cryptography 
*Technical Recovery Team "Magpies" 
*asset seizure team
===info exploitation===
specialists who follow closely to frontline units to collect intel from enemy positions before it can be lost or destroyed 
see; No. 30 Commando, 30 Commando Information Exploitation Group
*info seizure team
*info debrief
*info analysis 
===Biological Division===
*autopsy team
*xenobiology team
*xenobiological warfare 
*xenochemical warfare 
*weapons deployment team 
chem weapons, bio weapons (lead up to attempts to poison food supples on Sanghelios)
field chem weapon teams