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Introduction
At the 2018 Intelligence Senior Leaders Conference, the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence (USAICoE), Directorate of Training, Director, COL Eric Larsen briefed the latest information on the Military Intelligence Training Strategy (MITS). This article summarizes four key areas of COL Larsen's presentation:
* MITS.
* Objective-T.
* MITS pilot results and lessons learned.
* Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Tactical Proficiency Trainer (IEWTPT).
Military Intelligence Training Strategy
The purpose of MITS is to develop a tiered certification plan that can provide an objective approach to measure intelligence readiness across the brigade combat team (BCT) intelligence structure. Standardization of military intelligence (MI) certification is based on one basic principle-to objectively rate how a unit is able to answer a brigade commander's priority intelligence requirements. For units to be successful at this certification, the MI company commanders must plan and set up training for their sections before the MITS certification to ensure their sections are proficient at their individual and collective tasks. Once a unit is ready to conduct MITS certification, it should be familiar with all the tasks required to certify. Training circular 2-19.400, Military Intelligence Training Strategy for the Brigade Combat Team, provides information about the Army's approach to training and highlights training considerations and enablers which, when mastered, will make the certification process successful.1
MITS requires a coalition of organizations to make the certification process a reality. The proponent, USAICoE, is responsible for developing the standards for certification, based on critical task lists by military occupational specialty (MOS). USAICoE will also publish training circulars and other literature for the BCT MITS tiers 1 through 4. Publication of the training circulars is ongoing: tier 3 (MI crew certification) and tier 4 (individual MOS proficiency on programs of record) were published in May 2018. Training circulars for tiers 3 and 4 are available on the Army Publishing Directorate website. These are prescriptive "how to" documents that will guide units through the execution process and methods to certify their organizations.2 Training circulars for tier 1 (intelligence warfighting function certification) and tier 2 (MI platform certification) will be published no later than third quarter 2019.
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