Office of Naval Intelligence
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State level | Federal authority | ||
Position of the authority | Military intelligence | ||
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Consist | since 1882 | ||
Headquarters | NMIC , Suitland , Maryland | ||
Authority management |
COMONI RADM Samuel J. Cox DCOMONI Michael E. Washull
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Employee | <3,000 | ||
Website | http://www.oni.navy.mil/ |
The Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) ( German about "Office for Naval Intelligence Affairs" ) was founded in 1882 as the intelligence department of the US Navy . It is therefore the oldest intelligence service in the United States that is still operating today . Today the Office of Naval Intelligence is part of the Defense Intelligence Agency of the US Department of Defense .
assignment
Its main task is to monitor the naval forces of other nations . All tactical, operational and strategic information about this is brought together at the headquarters in Washington, DC and is evaluated there.
As with all intelligence services of the armed forces, on the one hand it is a matter of knowing exactly the capabilities and weaknesses of enemy weapon systems and associations as well as their tactics and procedures in order to be able to fight the enemy optimally.
On the other hand, it is a matter of precisely tracking the situation and movements of the opposing formations (ships, submarines, aircraft) in order to be able to monitor them at any time (protection against surprise attacks) and, if necessary, to be able to fight them reliably. Information from other intelligence services must flow into these situational images, while findings from the naval intelligence service must be made available to the other intelligence services in order to improve their situational images.
Calls
After the end of the Cold War , for example, it became known that the ONI maintained a gigantic network of sonar buoys in all oceans , which enabled a complete picture of the location of the opposing ships at any time. This basic information was closely linked with the findings from the NGO's photo, radar and infrared satellites , the NSA's monitoring systems , the Air Force's reconnaissance and radar aircraft , the large radar systems on the mountains of the coasts of allied states, the numerous large radar systems of their own Fleet and the sensors of its own hunting submarines. In addition, the electronic reconnaissance aircraft and the assigned fighter submarines of the aircraft carrier combat groups once again provided a very dense reconnaissance capacity on site. After the temporary end of the Cold War, the thousands of kilometers of secretly wired network of sonar buoys was abandoned. The means of reconnaissance still include spies in port cities and their administrations.
The ONI suffered a defeat in 2006 when it was discovered that a Chinese Song-class fighter submarine appeared within an American carrier combat group , just 3 miles from the carrier. The Soviet Union had never succeeded, and until then it had been thought impossible for China to have such advanced submarine technology.
Another task is to monitor the development of crime in international waters , especially drug trafficking and marine piracy . In the area of the American coasts, the ONI cooperates with the United States Coast Guard , which provides staff for this purpose at the ONI headquarters .
Commanders
Note: Until 1911, the chief of the ONI was designated as the chief intelligence officer. ( Current emblem )
- Lt. Theodorus BM Mason (June 1882 - April 1885)
- Lt. Raymond P. Rodgers (April 1885 - July 1889)
- Cmdr. Charles H. Davis (September 1889 - August 1892)
- Cmdr. French E. Chadwick (September 1892-June 1893)
- Lt. Frederick Singer (June 1893 - April 1896)
- Lt. Cmdr. Richard Wainwright (April 1896 - November 1897)
- Cmdr. Richardson Clover (November 1897 - May 1898)
- Capt. John R. Bartlett (May 1898 - October 1898)
- Cmdr. Richardson Clover (reappointed) (October 1898 - February 1900)
- Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee (February 1900 - April 1903)
- Cmdr. Seaton Schroeder (May 1903 - April 1906)
- Capt. Raymond P. Rodgers (reappointed) (April 1906 - May 1909)
- Capt. Charles E. Vreeland (May 1909 - December 1909)
- Capt. Templin M. Potts (December 1909 - January 1912)
- Capt. Thomas S. Rodgers (January 1912 - December 1913)
- Capt. Henry F. Bryan (December 1913 - January 1914)
- Capt. James H. Oliver (January 1914 - March 1917)
- Rear Adm. Roger Welles Jr. (April 1917 - January 1919)
- Rear Adm. Albert P. Niblack (May 1919 - September 1920)
- Rear Adm. Andrew T. Long (September 1920 - June 1921)
- Capt. Luke McNamee (September 1921 - November 1923)
- Rear Adm. Henry H. Hough (December 1923 - September 1925)
- Capt. William W. Galbraith (October 1925 - June 1926)
- Capt. Arthur J. Hepburn (July 1926 - September 1927)
- Capt. Alfred W. Johnson (December 1927 - June 1930)
- Capt. Harry A. Baldridge (June 1930 - May 1931
- Capt. Hayne Ellis (June 1931 - May 1934)
- Capt. William D. Puleston (June 1934 - April 1937)
- Rear Adm. Ralston S. Hughes (May 1937 - June 1939)
- Rear Adm. Walter S. Anderson (June 1939 - January 1941)
- Capt. Jules James (January 1941 - February 1941)
- Adm. Alan G. Kirk (March 1941 - October 1941)
- Rear Adm. Theodore S. Wilkinson (October 1941 - July 1942)
- Rear Adm. Harold C. Train (July 1942 - September 1943)
- Rear Adm. Roscoe E. Schuirmann September 1943 - October 1944)
- Rear Adm. Leo H. Thebaud (October 1944 - September 1945)
- Rear Adm. Thomas B. Inglis (September 1945 - September 1949)
- Rear Adm. Felix L. Johnson (September 1949 - June 1952)
- Rear Adm. Richard F. Stout (July 1952 - November 1952)
- Rear Adm. Carl F. Espe (December 1952 - May 1956)
- Rear Adm. Laurence H. Frost (June 1956 - September 1960)
- Rear Adm. Vernon L. Lowrance (September 1960 - June 1963)
- Rear Adm. Rufus L. Taylor (June 1963 - May 1966)
- Capt. Maurice H. Rindskopf (May 1966 - July 1966)
- Rear Adm. Eugene B. Fluckey (July 1966 - June 1968)
- Capt. Frank M. Murphy (June 1968 - August 1968)
- Rear Adm. Frederick J. Harlfinger II (August 1968 - July 1971)
- Rear Adm. Earl F. Rectanus (July 1971 - September 1974)
- Rear Adm. Bobby R. Inman (September 1974 - July 1976)
- Rear Adm. Donald P. Harvey (July 1976 - August 1978)
- Rear Adm. Sumner Shapiro (August 1978 - August 1982)
- Rear Adm. John L. Butts (August 1982 - September 1985)
- Rear Adm. William O. Studeman (September 1985 - July 1988)
- Rear Adm. Thomas A. Brooks (July 1988 - August 1991)
- Rear Adm. Edward D. Sheafer, Jr. (August 1991 - September 1994)
- Rear Adm. Michael W. Cramer (September 1994 - May 1997)
- Mr. Paul Lowell ( Acting ) (May 1997 - November 1997)
- Rear Adm. Lowell E. Jacoby (November 1997 - June 1999)
- Rear Adm. Perry M. Ratliff (June 1999 - March 2000)
- Mr. Paul Lowell (March 2000 - August 2000)
- Rear Adm. Richard B. Porterfield (August 2000 - April 2005)
- Rear Adm. Robert B. Murrett (April 2005 - July 2006)
- Rear Adm. Tony L. Cothron (July 2006 - July 2008)
- Vice Adm. David J. Dorsett (July 2008 - June 2011)
- Vice Adm. Kendall L. Card (June 2011 - October 2012)
- Rear Adm. Samuel J. Cox (since November 2012)
References
literature
- Wyman H. Packard: A Century of US Naval Intelligence. Office of Naval Intelligence - Naval Historical Center, Washington DC 1996, ISBN 0-945274-25-4 .
Web links
See also
- National Maritime Intelligence Integration Office (NMIO) as an umbrella organization
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official name: Commander of the Office of Naval Intelligence
- ↑ Official name: Deputy Commander of the Office of Naval Intelligence
- Jump up ↑ The Washington Times' original report from November 13, 2006
- ↑ Brief message about the successful penetration of a Chinese submarine into an aircraft carrier combat group
- ^ Sue A. Lackey (2005) More Clout , in Sea Power August 2005, online