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HUMINT CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE


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AGENDA• Aim;

• Background;

• Guiding Principles;

• Mission;

• Capabilities;

• Organization;

• The process of establishing the HUMINT COE

• WHY to become a Sponsor Nation

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AIM

Give an overview about HUMINT

Centre of Excellence and to convince

you to join us in this project.

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BACKGROUND • NATO Military Authorities Intelligence Coordination Group

(NMAICG) indicated shortfalls and difficulties in the use of HUMINT in theatres of operations;

• A NATO Human Intelligence Working Group (NWHG) was established in 2004;

• The need of an organization able to offer to the Alliance expertise for HUMINT development;

• Romania offered to establish such an unique organization, under the legal framework established by MCM 236-03 (Military Committee Concept for NATO Centre of Excellence, 04 Dec 2003) and IMSM 0416-04 (NATO Centres of Excellence Accreditation criteria, 11 June 2004).

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WHY ROMANIA

• Romania has established HUMINT national capabilities

since the early phase of the conflicts in Kosovo, Bosnia

and Herzegovina, Iraq and Afghanistan taking the decision

to send substantial forces in Theatre of Operations under

NATO control.

• Since 2002, when the first HUMINT elements has been

deployed in Afghanistan, Romania has constantly

increased HUMINT participation, so that, presently the

number of HUMINT Forces deployed overpass 200

personnel.

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KOSOVO

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IRAK

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WHY ROMANIA• During all NATO and Coalition Forces deployment, Romania has

provided one of the most substantial HUMINT contribution, exclusively for NATO benefit, in all Theatres of Operations.

• The experience gained and the lessons learned accumulated in HUMINT domain are premises for Romania to play a vital role in future NATO HUMINT architecture.

• Since the letter of intention Romania has sent to NATO, Romania has played an active role in HUMINT arena, organising the first ever NATO HUMINT exercise – STEADFST INDICATOR 2006, 2007 and the following 2008. Moreover, Romania has organised several international training activities in the actual location of HUMINT COE – Oradea city -, as well as hosting the NATO HUMINT Working Group in Bucharest 2006. Romanian HUMINT briefers have been invited to several NATO HUMINT activities.

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AFGHANISTAN

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WHY ROMANIA • Romania has also played an active role in NATO Doctrine area by offering

expertise in issuing the HUMINT Doctrine AJP 2.3, a vital document in the future NATO HUMINT architecture.

• Romania was actively involve in all HUMINT NATO training activities, including lecturers in NATO School, CJ2X course and not only.

• The HUMINT COE Romanian personnel will consists of the most skilled experts.

• Romania is presently deeply involved in establishing the NATO standards conditions of the site in order to be offered to Sponsor Nations. The HUMINT COE site take the benefit of the best Romanian training facilities, and will respect all NATO standards (security, communication, BICES).

• Romania will allocate over 10 millions EURO for the establishment of this project, in order to create the best conditions for the future activity.

• Romania has filled the HUMINT Chief post in SHAPE HQ in order to assure coordination in future HUMINT architecture

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GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• International Participation;

• Added Value and No Duplication;

• Resources;

• Implementation of NATO Standards;

• Relationships – through MOU

• Mandatory Criteria

• Highly Desirable Criteria

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MISSION• The Mission of the HUMINT COE is to promote

transformation within the Alliance in the specific area of

expertise by supporting development, promotion,

implementation of new policies, concepts, strategies to

improve operational capabilities and ultimately to achieve

interoperability.

• NATO HUMINT COE will provide a single point for NATO to

level training coalition deployments, develop and propose

for validation standardized policies and procedures for the

employment and rules of engagement.

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CAPABILITIES

The HUMINT COE will be built upon four interacting

pillars of engagement:

• Training and exercises

• Policy and Doctrine

• Lessons Learned

• Development and Maintenance of Capability and

Improvement Programs

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PROGRAM OF WORKTRAINING AND EXERCISES will focus on:

• Area familiarization

• Cultural awareness

• Force protection

• Basic operator mechanics

• NATO HUMINT validation exercises such as Steadfast Indicator

• CJ2X practical module

• HUMINT introduction for Force Commanders

• Use of the state of art training facilities offered by HUMINT COE

Other as required

NOTE: The courses and exercises content, lengths and periodicity will be coordinated with

ACT/ACO and SNs within the annual Program of Work

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PROGRAM OF WORKPOLICY AND DOCTRINE The support will be provided through the COE's role as the focal point for development and sustainment of NATO HUMINT through:

• HUMINT COE will offer to become the custodian for HATO HUMINT Doctrine AJP 2.3

•HUMINT COE will offer to host all NATO HUMINT WORKING GROUPS and the activities derived from this

• Conferences and Seminars • Development of concepts and improvement of procedures• Tracking and knowledge of NATO and EU procedures and legalities as pertaining to HUMINT

• HUMINT engagement in NATO operations.• Use lessons learned to develop future roles and responsibilities of HUMINT in operations.

• Provide expertise to develop future HUMINT concepts and procedures.• Propose future amendments for accreditation of HUMINT documents and procedures.

•Other expertise as identified by NATO Strategic Commanders.

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PROGRAM OF WORK

LESSONS LEARNED AND ARCHIVES

• Coordinate activities and exchange doctrinal, training and lessons

learned information with other national, NATO (such as JALLC

Lisbon), and relevant agencies by agreements.

• Collect and maintain HUMINT lessons learned from deployments and

engagements which can be posted and shared through

BICES/TRANSNET networks.

• Apply lessons learned through experimentation to offer to NATO SCs

new HUMINT improvements in equipment and procedures domains.

• Produce lessons learned documents in support of NATO SCs.

• Send Mobile Evaluation Teams in TOs at NATO request

• Send Mobile Training Teams at NATO HQ/ NATO partners request.

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PROGRAM OF WORK

DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF CAPABILITY AND IMPROVEMENT

PROGRAMS

• Employ lessons learned to drive the development of technical systems

in support of HUMINT

• Coordinate with other member nations, commercial and university

level programs for the development of new systems in support of

HUMINT. Examples would be increased Biometrics capabilities, Human

Language Technology systems and expanded source registry database

software and systems as well as Document Exploitation system.

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DIRECTOR

DEPUTY DIRECTORFOR TRANSFORMATION

DEPUTY DIRECTORFOR SUPPORT

LEGAD

SERVICE SUPPORT SECTION

LIAISON AND PROTOCOL OFFICE

CONCEPTS DEVELOPMENT SECTION

EDUCATION AND TRAINING SECTION

SECURITY

MEDICAL

CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS

IT AND COMMUNICATIONS

LOGISTICS

FINANCE

HUMAN RESOURCESEDUCATION AND TRAINING

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

TRAINING COORDINATION OFFICE

PUBLICATIONS

DOCTRINE AND LESSONS LEARNED

DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

EXPERIMENTATION/ CONCEPT VALIDATION

OFFICE

TOTAL: 64 NATO = 11 positions

NATO SLOTS EDU/TRNG1 x OF 3/41 x OF 2/31 NCO

NATO SLOTS CONC/DVLP1 x OF 4 / Dep. Transf.2 x OF 3/42 x OF 2/32 x OF 1/21 NCO

SPONSOR NATIONS

ROU slots

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RELATIONSHIPS

HUMINT COE

STEERINGCOMITEE

(SACEUR)ACO

NAC

MC

HUMINTCOE

NATO AGENCIES

OTHER COES

EXTERNAL STRUCTURES

HQ SACT

NATO ENTITIES

ROUINTELL

Coordonation

Support

Subordonation

Collaboration

Co-operation

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TNCC / ACTVisit

Oradea site

Romania negotiate MoU with potential SNs

ACT recommends

to MCfor CoE

accreditation

If green light IOC

capability

Feb Oct Nov

ACT initial assessment

1st MoUconference

ACT assessm.package

Sign MoUceremony

ACT assessment

HUMINT COE ESTABLISHMENT TIMELINESynchronization with ACT during the entire process

Foreign personnel to be appointed at the beginning of 2009

JanJun Aug

Official ceremony

Both MoUs are

signed

Dec

Final MoUconference

Sponsor nations

agreed the final MoU

text

Sponsor Nations Budget

year start

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HOW TO BECOME A SPONSOR NATION

• Fill one post of HUMINT COE PE list (MoU negotiation in

May-June 2008, depending on nations’ answers)

• Participate to the common budget

•The same system as in all existing COEs

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WHY TO BECOME A SPONSOR NATION

• influence NATO doctrines and concepts

• provide Subject Matter Experts with latest knowledge of HUMINT

procedures, techniques and equipment

• take benefit of training facilities

• participate in HUMINT transformation process

• level NATO HUMINT procedures for all forces to be deployed in TO

• leverage common HUMINT NATO operations in theaters of

operations.

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HUMINT COE DIRECTORLTC Eduard SIMION ROU A

e-mail: [email protected]. +4 0730 233 573

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