Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency
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Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency |
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 Air Force ISR Agency emblem |
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| Lineup | June 8, 2007 |
| Country | United States of America |
| Armed forces | United States Armed Forces |
| Air Force | United States Air Force |
| Branch of service | Military intelligence |
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| Insinuation | Defense Intelligence Agency / FOA of the USAF |
| Lackland Air Force Base | San Antonio , Texas |
| motto | Freedom Through Vigilance |
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| Current commander |
Major General Bradley Heithold |
| Vice Commander | Col. Ronald R. Ratton |
| Executive Director | Keith Thomas |
The Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency (Air Force ISR Agency), headquartered at Lackland Air Force Base , Texas , is the intelligence service of the US Air Force and part of the Defense Intelligence Agency of the US Department of Defense . It emerged in June 2007 from the Air Intelligence Agency (AIA) forerunner to Air Combat Command . The service currently reports to the Air Force Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Intelligence (A2) Lt. Gene. David A. Deptula .
assignment
The tasks of the ISR are the adjustment, analysis and evaluation of all information and the dissemination of intelligence information to support current and future operations. The ISR is responsible for training, deploying, equipping and deploying intelligence units for surveillance and reconnaissance to serve the commanders of the Unified Combatant Commands and the nation. Furthermore, the ISR implements the official Air Force doctrines in order to further maximize its own effectiveness.
organization
For a long time, the AIA was the largest US intelligence agency. When Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks published their exposé book "CIA" in 1974 about this and the US intelligence agencies, 56,000 people worked for the Air Intelligence Agency (AIA) on a budget of 2.7 billion US dollars, while 24,000 people worked for the then second largest US intelligence agency (NSA), which is dedicated to electronic reconnaissance, worked with a budget of 1.2 billion US dollars; 35,000 soldiers worked for the United States Army Intelligence with a budget of 700 Million US dollars and 16,500 people worked for the CIA on a budget of 750 million US dollars. This was followed by the Naval Intelligence Agency ( Office of Naval Intelligence ) with 15,000 employees and a budget of 600 million US dollars , and the Defense Intelligence Agency with 5,000 employees and a budget of 200 million US dollars , which without its own procurement the findings of the intelligence services of the armed forces for the Department of Defense, the Government and the other services. In addition, there were the intelligence departments of the US Federal Police FBI with 800 agents and a $ 40 million budget (International Security Department), the United States Atomic Energy Commission (intelligence department) with 300 employees and a $ 20 million budget and 300 agents of the Ministry of Finance ( Department of the Treasury ) with 10 million US dollars budget.
Today around 12,000 employees work for the AIA in 72 different institutions worldwide.
National Reconnaisance Office
In addition to aerial reconnaissance using spy planes ( U-2 , SR-71 ), the AIA oversaw the entire spy satellite program that costs billions. Initially, these programs were largely controlled and driven by the CIA, but the contractor was the Air Force. Within the AIA with a budget of $ 2.7 billion, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) made up the largest share with $ 1.5 billion, which directed and carried out the satellite program for the entire US news community. The long-time head of the NRO was the Air Force Colonel and later Brigadier General Ralph Steakly. At first even the existence of the NGO was kept secret. In the meantime, the NRO has been spun off from the AIA and has become independent.
Similarly, the AIA does a lot of development work and services for the NSA in the field of encryption, especially for the Consolidated Cryptologic Program.
National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC)
The NAIC deals with the collection and analysis of information about enemy missile systems, from the quality of anti-aircraft missiles to ICBMs.
Air Force Information Warfare Center (AFIWC)
The AFIWC is concerned with adversarial weapon developments and weapon systems that affect the Air Force, and maintaining the United States' technological lead in this area.
Air Force Information Operations Center
Like all intelligence departments of the armed forces, the AIA is of course also very specific with the task of compiling situation reports on the current military situation for each operational area and for the operational areas of each unit, and enabling the units of their own armed forces, the Air Force, to obtain information on the situation themselves. Here the Air Force also provides significant services for the Army by making the findings of their radar devices, sensors and cameras as well as direct observations from pilots available. The capabilities to do this are significantly strengthened by the Air Force Information Operations Center and its services.
literature
- Victor Marchetti, John D. Marks: CIA . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-453-00548-1 , p. 118–129 ( Heyne books. 7016 Heyne non-fiction book ).
Web links
- Official website of the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency
- Page no longer available , search in web archives: data sheet of the United States Air Force (English)
- Deleted Documents from the Air Intelligence Agency (English)
