United States Army Intelligence and Security Command

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U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command
INSCOM.svg
INSCOM Shoulder Sleeve Insignia
Active1977–present
CountryFlag of the United States.svg United States
BranchFlag of the United States Army.svg  United States Army
Type Direct reporting unit [ broken anchor ]
Role Military intelligence,
Information operations
Size10,000+ [1]
Part ofArmy Cyber Command
Headquarters Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Nickname(s)INSCOM
Website Official website
Commanders
Current
commander		 MG Timothy D. Brown
Chief Warrant OfficerCW5 Jeremy M. Sager
Command Sergeant Major CSM Anthony Rangel III
Insignia
INSCOM Seal
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Distinctive unit insignia
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The United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) is a direct reporting unit that conducts intelligence, security, and information operations for United States Army commanders, partners in the Intelligence Community, and national decision-makers. INSCOM is headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

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INSCOM contributes units to the National Security Agency, the United States's unified signals intelligence (SIGINT) organization. Within the NSA, INSCOM and its counterparts in the Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps comprise the Central Security Service. INSCOM's budget has been estimated to be approximately $6 billion. [2]

As a direct reporting unit, INSCOM reports directly to the chief of staff of the Army.

Mission

INSCOM collects intelligence information in all intelligence disciplines to provide unit commanders with intelligence for the battlefield and the focus of combat power. The organization also conducts intelligence production activities, ranging from intelligence preparation of the battlefield to situation development, SIGINT analysis, imagery exploitation, and science and technology intelligence production. INSCOM also has significant responsibilities in counterintelligence, force protection, electronic warfare, and information warfare. Additionally, INSCOM supports force modernization and training.

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INSCOM Headquarters at Ft. Belvoir following 2019 expansion

INSCOM's stated vision for operations includes: (1) conducting and supporting relevant intelligence, security and information operations for U.S. Army, joint and combined forces; (2) optimizing national/theater/tactical partnerships; (3) exploiting leading edge technology; and (4) meeting the challenge of today, tomorrow and the 21st Century.

Structure

Headquartered at Fort Meade, Maryland, Army Counterintelligence (ACI) Command (ACIC) is a one-star U.S. Army command that is delegated all Secretary of the Army counterintelligence (CI) authorities as the Army's sole Military Department CI Organization (MDCO). ACIC conducts worldwide CI activities to detect, identify, neutralize, and exploit foreign intelligence entities, international terrorists, insider threats, and other foreign adversaries to protect the U.S. Army and the Department of Defense.
Located at Fort Belvoir, 1st IO CMD provides multi-disciplinary Information Operations (IO) support to the component and major commands of the United States Army.
Located in Wiesbaden, Germany, the 66th conducts theater level multi-discipline intelligence and security operations and, when directed, deploys prepared forces to conduct joint/combined expeditionary and contingency operations in support of United States Army Europe and U.S. European Command.
Located at Fort Gordon, Georgia, the 116th conducts 24/7 tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, dissemination and feedback operations for multiple aerial-ISR systems utilizing the Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A). [3]
Located at Caserma Ederle and Caserma Longare, Vicenza, Italy. It conducts full-spectrum intelligence in support of U.S. Army Africa and United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM or AFRICOM) in order to set the intelligence architecture for the theater, disrupt transnational and trans-regional threats, and promote regional stability in Africa while building and maintaining intelligence readiness. [4]
Provides trained and ready linguist and military intelligence soldiers to commanders from brigade through Army level. Located in Draper, Utah.
Located at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, the 470th provides timely and fused multi-discipline intelligence in support of United States Army South, U.S. Southern Command, and other national intelligence agencies.
The 500th Military Intelligence Brigade located at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, provides multi-disciplined intelligence support for joint and coalition war fighters within United States Army Pacific and the U.S. Pacific Command area of responsibility.
The 501st Military Intelligence Brigade supports combined forces operations in Korea. [5]
Located at Fort Gordon, Georgia, the 513th deploys in strength or in tailored elements to conduct multi-disciplined intelligence and security operations in support of United States Army Central, U.S. Central Command, U.S. Southern Command, and other theater Army commands.
Conducts synchronized full-spectrum signals intelligence, computer network and information assurance operations directly and through the National Security Agency to satisfy national, joint, combined and Army information superiority requirements.
Formerly the 116th Military Intelligence Group, it is located at Fort Gordon, Georgia. It provides personnel, intelligence assets and technical support to conduct signals intelligence operations within the National Security Agency/Central Security Service Georgia (NSA/CSS Georgia) and worldwide. [6]
Located at Fort Meade, the 780th conducts expeditionary and remote cyber attack, cyber exploitation, and cyber defense operations of Army and Defense information networks.
Located at Fort Meade, ACO serves as the Army G2 and Service Cryptologic Component (SCC) representative to provide expert cryptologic leadership, support, guidance and advice to U.S. Army Warfighters and Intelligence leaders. Lead the Army’s Cryptologic effort to satisfy Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) requirements by leveraging NSA Extended Enterprise, Intelligence Community, Sister Services and Service Laboratories. Ensure timely and effective support to operations by providing optimized capabilities, training and resources.
Located at Fort Meade, AFSC provides specialized operational, administrative and personnel management support to Department of the Army and other Department of Defense Services and Agencies as directed.
Located at Fort Meade, AOG conducts Human Intelligence (HUMINT) operations and provide expertise in support of ground component priority intelligence requirements using a full spectrum of human intelligence collection methods.
Located at Fort Meade, the CCF serves as the U.S. Army’s executive agency for personnel security determinations in support of Army missions world-wide.
A threat monitoring center, the result of the 2013 transformation [8] of the Antiterrorism Operations and Intelligence Cell (ATOIC)
Located in Charlottesville, Virginia, NGIC is the Defense Department's primary producer of ground forces technical intelligence and is the Army's premier provider of intelligence products.

History

Merger and creation of INSCOM

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US Army Intelligence Agency 1976-1977

On 1 January 1977, the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) was organized at Arlington Hall Station, Virginia, to provide the U.S. Army with a single organization for conducting multi-discipline intelligence, security operations, and electronic warfare at the level above corps. The new organization merged the former U.S. Army Security Agency, the signal intelligence and signal security organizations previously located at Arlington Hall, Virginia, the U.S. Army Intelligence Agency (USAINTA), a counterintelligence and human intelligence agency based at Fort Meade, Maryland, and several intelligence production units formerly controlled by the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence and U.S. Army Forces Command. Brigadier General (later Major General) William I. Rolya, former commanding general of the Army Security Agency, became INSCOM's first commanding general.[ citation needed ]

USAINTA was a reorganization of the United States Army Intelligence Command (USAINTC) which had been formed in 1965 to have a centralized command over all Counter Intelligence units in the Continental United States (CONUS). [9]

On 1 October 1977, the former U.S. Army Intelligence Agency headquarters was integrated into INSCOM. The command established a unified intelligence production element, the Intelligence and Threat Analysis Center, on 1 January 1978. Additionally, INSCOM assumed command of three military intelligence groups located overseas: the 66th Military Intelligence Group in Germany, the 470th Military Intelligence Group in Panama, and the 500th Military Intelligence Group in Japan. These groups were transformed into multidisciplinary units by incorporating former Army Security Agency assets into the previously existing elements. A fourth such group, the 501st Military Intelligence Brigade, [5] was soon organized in South Korea. All of these groups were eventually reorganized and re-designated as brigades.[ citation needed ]

Parapsychologic research

In association with the Defense Intelligence Agency, and under the leadership of commanding general Albert Stubblebine, INSCOM attempted to use parapsychologic methods such as remote viewing in operation Center Lane . This was done as late as 1981. Other U.S. intelligence services attempted similar projects during the same period, most notably the Stargate Project by the Central Intelligence Agency.[ citation needed ]

In caselaw

In 2014, a case was litigated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against the Central Intelligence Agency and other federal departments and agencies, and it was determined that the agencies inappropriately handled an FOIA request regarding a special agent assigned to the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command who illegally issued a National security letter. [10] [11]

List of commanding generals

No.Commanding GeneralTerm
PortraitNameTook officeLeft officeDuration
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Major General
David B. Lacquement 		2007 [12] 16 October 2009~2 years, 288 days
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Major General
Mary A. Legere 		16 October 2009 [13] 5 March 20122 years, 141 days
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Major General
Stephen G. Fogarty 		5 March 2012 [14] 30 May 20142 years, 86 days
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Major General
George J. Franz III 		30 May 2014 [15] 27 June 20162 years, 28 days
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Major General
Christopher S. Ballard 		27 June 2016 [16] 11 June 20181 year, 349 days
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Major General
Gary W. Johnston 		11 June 2018 [17] 16 July 20213 years, 35 days
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Major General
Michele H. Bredenkamp 		16 July 2021 [12] 14 December 20232 years, 151 days
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Major General
Timothy D. Brown 		14 December 2023Incumbent1 year, 260 days

References

  1. ↑ Bamford, James (12 June 2013). "NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning. Meet the Spy Chief Leading Us into Cyberwar". Wired . Archived from the original on 14 June 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2019. Originally titled "The Secret War".{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  2. ↑ Shorrock, Tim (2008). Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing . New York: Simon & Schuster. p.  20. ISBN   9780743282246.
  3. ↑ DCGS-A provides foundation for aerial intelligence, WWW.ARMY.MIL, By Capt. Michael Pederson (116th MIB), Dated 3 December 2014, last accessed 13 December 2014
  4. ↑ "INSCOM - U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command". www.inscom.army.mil. Archived from the original on 22 May 2016.
  5. 1 2 501st Military Intelligence Brigade
  6. ↑ Webmaster, Garrison. "Units & Tenants". www.gordon.army.mil. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
  7. ↑ Cameron, Dell; Mehrotra, Dhruv. "'No Kings' Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings". Wired . Archived from the original on 13 June 2025. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
  8. ↑ "Effective June 1, 2013, the Army initiates the transformation of the ATOIC to the Army Threat Integration Center". STAND-TO!. www.army.mil. 21 May 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
  9. ↑ Begelow, Michael E. (2012). "A Short History of Army Intelligence" (PDF). Federation of American Scientists.
  10. ↑ "Unauthorized Reqllest for Civilian Telephone Transaction and Toll Records" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2011.
  11. ↑ "EFF Victories in Two FOIA Cases—Court Rules Government's Arguments are "Clearly Inadequate" to Support Claims". www.eff.org.
  12. 1 2 "INSCOM - U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command". www.inscom.army.mil. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012.
  13. ↑ "MG Mary A. Legere". www.army.mil. 26 August 2011.
  14. ↑ "INSCOM - U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command". 17 October 2012. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012.
  15. ↑ "Maj. Gen. George Franz III takes the reins at INSCOM". 8 July 2014.
  16. ↑ "INSCOM welcomes Maj. Gen. Christopher Ballard as the new commanding general". www.army.mil. 28 June 2016.
  17. ↑ "INSCOM welcomes Maj. Gen. Gary W. Johnston as the new commanding general". www.army.mil. 14 June 2018.
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