In March, a working group was formed to review the current alignment of our RC Echelon IV commands, Navy Intelligence Reserve Command (CNIRC) and Navy Net-Centric Warfare Group (NNWG).  The team included representatives from CNIRC, NNWG, OPNAV, C10F, CYBERFOR, and CNRFC.

The working group developed courses of action (COAs) for creating improved alignment and synergy between our AC and RC IDC personnel.  Ultimately, the Commander, Fleet Forces Command, ADM Harvey, the Chief of Navy Reserve, VADM Debbink, and I agreed that the optimal approach is to integrate CNIRC and NNWG headquarters staff and responsibility for their missions, functions and tasks into Navy Cyber Forces Command (CYBERFOR).  This COA advances the Total Force concept, reduces staff redundancies, and presents the opportunity for possible recapitalization of personnel across the IDC.

The number one consideration throughout this process has been to maintain the exceptional level and quality of support that our RC Sailors are providing to the Fleet and Joint Commands.  This commitment creates a unique challenge in how to best provide the necessary tools and training for over 6,000 Selected Reserve personnel who proudly serve our Navy.  Our Reserve Component is a force multiplier whose flexibility, responsiveness, and ability to serve across a wide spectrum of operations are critical to the IDC Total Force.

To move forward, RADM Tom Meek has established an Implementation Team at CYBERFOR, led by RDML Gordon Russell, to develop the POA&M for all actions related to implementation, alignment, and the phased transition of functions and personnel.

CNO has directed us to optimize Navy staffs to efficiently and effectively support the Fleet.  Our RC alignment is a step in that direction.  Once accomplished, we will have better oversight and understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing our IDC Total Force and will be better positioned to work together as a team to move the IDC forward.

VR, VADM Jack Dorsett

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1. REQUEST ALL ADDRESSEES GIVE THIS MESSAGE WIDEST DISSEMINATION TO SUBORDINATE ACTIVITIES/ELEMENTS WITH INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL ASSIGNED.
2. THIS MESSAGE PROVIDES BACKGROUND AND GUIDANCE AND SOLICITS NOMINATIONS FOR DIRECTOR OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE-SPONSORED RADM THOMAS A. BROOKS INTELLIGENCE JUNIOR OFFICER OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR 2010.
A. ALL ACTIVE DUTY AND RESERVE 163X/645X JUNIOR OFFICERS (O1-O3) ARE ELIGIBLE TO COMPETE. ONE JUNIOR OFFICER SERVING IN A SEA DUTY CAPACITY, ONE JUNIOR OFFICER SERVING IN A SHORE-BASED CAPACITY AND ONE JUNIOR OFFICER SERVING IN AN EXPEDITIONARY OR INDIVIDUAL AUGMENTATION CAPACITY WILL BE SELECTED. OFFICERS SELECTED/NOMINATED FOR THIS AWARD SHOULD HAVE DEMONSTRATED SUSTAINED SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE, EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP ABILITY, A HIGH DEGREE OF INITIATIVE, COOPERATION AND ADAPTABILITY, OUTSTANDING MILITARY APPEARANCE AND EXEMPLARY MILITARY AND PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT.
B. CNO N2N6C1 WILL PROVIDE THE PRECEPT AND GUIDANCE TO COMMANDS BOARDING THE AFLOAT, ASHORE AND EXPEDITIONARY CANDIDATES. COMUSFLTFORCOM N2 WILL CONVENE A BOARD TO SELECT ONE JUNIOR OFFICER OF THE YEAR FOR THE AFLOAT CATEGORY (OFFICERS ASSIGNED TO NAVY SHIPS, SQUADRONS, AND AFLOAT STAFF) AND EMAIL THEIR NOMINATION TO N2N6C1. THE OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE WILL CONVENE A BOARD TO SELECT ONE JUNIOR OFFICER OF THE YEAR FOR THE ASHORE CATEGORY (OFFICERS ASSIGNED TO SHORE ACTIVITIES, AND ALL JOINT ACTIVITIES E.G. COMBATANT COMMANDER’S JOINT INTELLIGENCE CENTERS, ONI, NGA, DIA, JCS, ETC) AND EMAIL THEIR NOMINATION PACKAGES TO N2N6C1. COMNECC N2 WILL CONVENE A BOARD TO SELECT ONE JUNIOR OFFICER OF THE YEAR FOR THE EXPEDITIONARY CATEGORY (OFFICERS ASSIGNED TO EXPEDITIONARY COMMANDS E.G. NAVY EXPEDITIONARY COMBAT COMMAND/NAVY EXPEDITIONARY INTELLIGENCE COMMAND, SPECIAL WARFARE COMMANDS OR SERVING FORWARD IN AN INDIVIDUAL AUGMENTATION CAPACITY) AND EMAIL THEIR NOMINATION TO N2N6C1. N2N6C1 WILL FORWARD FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE DCNO FOR INFORMATION DOMINANCE. AWARDEES WILL RECEIVE A NAVY AND MARINE CORPS COMMENDATION MEDAL (NCM) IN ADDITION TO A COMMEMORATIVE WALL PLAQUE AND A 5-YEAR MEMBERSHIP IN THE NAVAL INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONALS (NIP) COURTESY OF THE NAVAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION (NIF). PERIOD OF ELIGIBILITY IS 1 SEPTEMBER 2009 TO 31 AUGUST 2010.
C. NOMINATION PACKAGES MUST INCLUDE:
1. NAME/RANK/SSN
2. DATE OF BIRTH/PLACE OF BIRTH
3. DATE OF COMMISSION/PROMOTION HISTORY
4. ACTIVE DUTY ASSIGNMENTS (INCLUSIVE DATES)
5. MILITARY AWARDS (PERSONAL, SERVICE, CAMPAIGN)
6. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
7. COMMAND LETTER OF ENDORSEMENT
8. SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN THE PAST YEAR IN BULLETIZED FORMAT
9. SHORT BIOGRAPHY
10. DRAFT NCM CITATION
11. OPNAV 1650/3 FORM, BLOCK 30 SIGNED BY PARENT COMMAND.
D. PACKAGES IN PDF FORMAT MUST ARRIVE TO USFF/ONI/NEIC BY 15 SEPTEMBER WHO WILL FORWARD TO CNO N2N6C1 FOR PROCESSING. USFF/SEA POC IS CDR COREY, ANDREW.COREY(AT)NAVY.MIL. ONI/SHORE POC IS LT BOWERS, BBOWERS(AT)NMIC.NAVY.MIL. NECC/EXPEDITIONARY POC IS ISCM HASS, MICHAEL.HASS(AT)NAVY.MIL.
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Entry Deadline: September 1, 2009
Click here for the details of the golf tournament

Net Proceeds will benefit the NIF RADM Sumner Shapiro Scholarship Fund

Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Shenandoah Valley Golf Club

(Rte 66 West to Exit 6 – 2nd Front Royal exit.  Right on Route 522 North.  From Route 522 turn right at (Warren County Fairgrounds) onto Route 661.  Go 2 miles, turn left, at stop sign, onto Route 658.  Go 3/4 mile to Shenandoah Valley Golf Club on the right)

Format: Scramble/Captain’s Choice
Check-In: 8:00 a.m. – Registration, coffee and danish
Shotgun Start: 9:00 a.m.
Entry Fee: $80.00 Single
$300.00 Foursome
$40.00 Lunch and door prizes only

Entry Fee Includes:

Golf, Power Cart, Closest-to-Pin, Longest Drive, Lunch, Coffee and Danish, Door Prizes, On-the-Course Soft Drinks, Prizes to Top Teams, Unlimited Practice Range Balls Prior to Tee Off

Corporate Sponsor: $400.00       * 4 entries for golf
* Hole sponsorship with tee box identification
* Recognition in published program

Field Limit: 120 players  Contact: Tony Sesow (703) 938-1765, (Cell) 703-501-7934

Joe’s notes are below.

“First Navy Information Dominance Industry Day was held at the TASC Heritage Center on 22 June.  This all day event was held at the Secret Level and sponsored Jointly by the Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP) and AFCEA’s Intelligence Committee.  VADM Jack Dorsett (N2/6) and most of his direct reports presented their views (and where ready their roadmaps) for achieving information dominance in various Navy mission areas with all of the N2/6 leadership being available throughout the event for sidebar conversations.  VADM Dorsett stressed his goal for this event was to “start a dialog” with industry about achieving information dominance for the Navy.  Admiral Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), made it clear by his presence, remarks and engagement with the audience that he is fully committed to making information “a main battery” of the Navy by shifting from platform centric approach to naval missions to one that is information centric. The CNO and all of the Navy senior leaders present at this industry day said in different ways that information (aka cyber) is now a warfare domain and must treated as such by the Navy.   Over 300 members from the private sector attended this event.  When the unclassified briefing slides from this even are available I will forward them, but for now here are my “quicklook” unclassified observations from this event.

1.       No other service chief is as committed to information dominance as Admiral Roughead;  no other service has combined its 2 and 6 in order to provide centralized focused on information and mission and the CNO is willing to “sell” this concept both inside of DoD, the Intelligence Community (IC), and the private sector

2.       N2/6 has a very strong and dynamic leadership team that is fully committed to achieving the CNO’s vision of Information Dominance needed for USN mission success

3.       Most important technology areas CNO and N2/6 are looking to the private sector for assistance with:

a.       Power and endurance for underwater unmanned vehicles (UUVs).  CNO says no need to work on sensors or IT for UUVs until they can operate for weeks, vice days

b.      Network situational awareness (SA)/Common Operating Picture (COP)  in terms of understanding what is normal, what is anomalous, and predicting spikes and lulls for network provisioning.   The intel part of N2/6 also needs this capability for adversary networks for information assurance, exploitation, and targeting

c.       Developing PL-5 Multi-Level Security solution

d.      Expanding/better managing Bandwidth capacity

e.      Data strategy and data management tools and techniques

4.       Information Dominance must be achieved with secure, well performing solutions that are constrained by affordability

VADM Dorsett said the way he wants the private sector to engage with N2/6 to support the Navy’s drive towards information dominance is by submitting White Papers on relevant topics for review and discussion.

My thanks to Joe for his usual extraordinary job.

We can loan any of these, but we will need them sent back when you have completed viewing them.  If you’d like to borrow and view any of the above, please contact Terry Wilton, NIP Executive Director.

ADM Bill Studeman presents the Traditional NIF Spyglass to Midshipman Campion

Admiral William O. Studeman, USN (Ret.), Chairman of the Naval Intelligence Foundation’s Board of Trustees, presented the Foundation’s ADM Robert L. J. Long Award at the U.S. Naval Academy’s Prizes and Awards Ceremony, 25 May 2010. The recipient of the 2010 award was MIDN 1/c John Edward Campion, USN. The award is given to that midshipman of the graduating class who has the highest level of academic achievement among those students participating in the honors program.

It is presented in honor of Admiral Robert L. J. Long, USNA Class of 1944, who was a staunch supporter of Naval Intelligence. The award consists of a brass spyglass, a 5-year membership in the Naval Intelligence Professionals (NIP), and a commemorative wall plaque.

Midshipman Campion also received a Truman Scholarship in International Affairs. After a summer internship at DIA, Ensign Campion will attend the School of International Studies at Peking University for a year before continuing his studies at the London School of Economics for a second year. After completing his graduate studies, Ensign Campion will begin his training for the submarine service.

•           Kara Garrott, dependent of CAPT Bruce Garrott, USNR (CENTCOM CCJ2) $1500 Shanower scholarship – Ms. Garrott is finishing her freshman year at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, where she is studying to become a biomedical engineer.

•           Jacob Peabody, dependent of CDR Doug Peabody, USN (CENTCOM), $1500 Engen scholarship – Mr. Peabody is expected to attend Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., to prepare for a career as a Foreign Service Officer

•           Keaton Maguire, dependent of ISC Gene Maguire, USNR (ONI), $1500 Bates scholarship – Mr. Maguire will attend Utah State University in Logan, Utah, to study for a career as a radiation oncologist

•           IS2 Eugene Padden (CNO IP), $750 Sesow scholarship – Intelligence Specialist Second Class Padden will continue his studies at the American Military University where he plans to earn a B.A. in Intelligence Studies.

•           GySgt Michael Kristek (USMC Det, NMITC), $750 Sesow scholarship – Gunnery Sergeant Kristek will be attending The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, where he plans to earn a military commission and become a Foreign Area Officer and Attaché.

(Initial request)

Planning is underway for a July overseas business trip conducting a conference for a large US international company.  The issues are logistics involving electronic presentations (on computer laptops or other media) and communications utilizing cell phones or VOIP.

This is a sincere request and I would appreciate the group’s recommendations for protecting information during overseas travel.

(Discussion thread)

A summary of recommendations made:

• Several votes to leave all electronic media at home and conduct the conference via hand-shadow projection on a screen, although it was pointed out hand shadows are easy to misinterpret across cultures so other tools are needed.

Laptops:

• Some companies issue stripped-down “loaner” laptops to anyone traveling overseas.  Lawyers interpret that as a legal requirement to prevent the export of US information.
• Install a brand new/clean hard drive with presentation or take new laptop.
• Purchase $300 netbook from Amazon.
• Obtain free open-source disk encryption software (such as Truecrypt) for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.  Might not prevent them from reading it, but it at least makes it harder…
• Window Washer and/or Norton Utilities for securely deleting files and doing a complete disk erase (both meet DoD and NSA standards).
• Look into an encrypted flash drive called IronKey — they claim high level encryption and self destruction after several attempts to guess the password.

Bottom line:

• Bring no cell phones.  Purchase phones and leave them there when you leave.
• Bring no computers.  Purchase what you need and leave them there when you leave.
• Bring all material for presentation or use over on a CD and then only data you can afford to loose.

Millions of documents stored at the World War II code-breaking center, Bletchley Park, are set to be digitized and made available online.

Electronics company Hewlett-Packard has donated a number of scanners to the centre in Milton Keynes so volunteers can begin the ground-breaking task.

Many of the records at the once-secret centre have not been touched for years.

During the war, it was home to more than 10,000 men and women who decoded encrypted German messages.

The centre hopes that once the work starts, previously untold stories about the role Bletchley Park played in the war, will be revealed.

‘Trail’

The first phase of the project is expected to take at least three years.

Simon Greenish, chief executive officer of the Bletchley Park Trust, said the plan was for the center’s entire archive to be digitised.

He said: “We’ve been wanting to do this for a while. It was first discussed five years ago, but we have just never had the funds.

“If I ever manage to secure £10,000 then that goes towards buying a new roof as this project just has not had the attention it deserves.

“But for the first time we hope we will be able to put everything into the public domain.”

He said since the archive is so big nobody knows exactly what each individual document stored there contains.

However, the information they expect to dig out will definitely include communication transcripts, communiques, memoranda, photographs, maps and other material relating to key events that took place during the war.

He said: “We have many boxes full of index cards, which have lots of different messages on them. But this will be our chance to follow a trail and put the messages together so we can find out what they really mean.

“We found a card talking about 4,400 tonnes of mercury being transferred from Spain – we will be searching for further messages explaining what happened and why this was done.”

He said the archive had tremendous potential and once it was online, people would find it easier to trace documents related to certain subjects within minutes – something that takes days to do now.

Pictures set to go online in the archive include ones of Adolf Hitler shortly after surviving an attempt to assassinate him. They had been taken by his official photographer Heinrich Hoffmann.

It is quite clear there was a lot of correspondence going on between these countries

Simon Greenish Bletchley Park Trust

“I’m looking toward to finding the cards relating to rubber and ball bearings and how the Germans gathered these materials.

“The Germans developed synthetic rubber as they found it hard to get natural rubber. They also needed lots of ball bearings for the war effort, which is why the allied forces attacked a lot of ball bearing factories.”

He said there were records in the archive which showed countries such as Spain, Switzerland and Sweden were perhaps not as neutral as they were portrayed.

“It is quite clear there was a lot of correspondence going on between these countries,” he said.

He said the volunteers had already unearthed records showing countries including Spain dealing in diamonds with the Japanese and other German allies.

He said more information about the double agent Garbo – a Spaniard whose real name was Juan Pujol Garcia – was likely to come out once the work on the archive began.

Garbo, who has been described as World War II’s “greatest double agent”, persuaded the Nazis that the allied forces were planning their D-Day operation in Calais rather than Normandy.

He said he was also expecting more information about the fuel the Germans were discovered to be sending to Pennemuende, a small village close to the Baltic Sea.

The hard copies of the documents are stored in a massive room

He said: “We didn’t know anything about it initially, but then because of the message that Bletchley Park decoded, the allies sent a reconnaissance aircraft and they found out that rockets – weapons of terror – were being developed there. The RAF then attacked the site.”

He said the documents were all important as just one obscure message could have led to thousands of lives being saved.

Laura Seymour, from Hewlett-Packard, said her company contacted Bletchley Park in September 2009 after learning of its plight.

The company donated a number of scanners and people to provide technical expertise to the charity.

Ms Seymour estimated the cost to HP was in the tens of thousands but said it was a project that was worth being involved in.

Mr Greenish believed the archive would be an important research tool and could even attract more people to the site. It would also ensure the preservation of the fragile hard copies.

Currently most of the documents are too difficult to view or handle and few have access to them. But Bletchley Park hopes that its new archive will one day be a different type of gateway to the past.