Army Futures Command Concept for Intelligence 2028

1 AFC Pamphlet 71-20-3 army Futures Command Concept for Intelligence202818 September 2020 Distribution Statement A. This document is approved for public release; distribution Pam 71-20-3 ii This page intentionally left blank AFC Pam 71-20-3 iii Foreword From the Director, Futures and Concepts Center, army Futures Command Our near-peer competitors, leveraging emerging trends in science, technology, and the information environment, have invested in strategies and capabilities to challenge the and remake the global order. They employ innovative approaches to contest and allies' interests in all domains, the electromagnetic spectrum, and information environment.

2 They often seek to attain their goals through ambiguous actions taken below the threshold of armed conflict. In armed conflict, advances in weapons technology, sensors, communications, and information processing allow these adversaries to generate stand-off intended to separate the joint force in time, space, and function. To address these challenges and fulfill the army 's landpower roles in protecting the Nation and securing its vital interests, the army is adapting the way it organizes, trains, educates, mans, and equips to fight these future threats structured around the Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) Concept .

3 army Intelligence is inherently multi-domain as it collects from and against multiple domains and has access to partners that cover gaps in army information collection capabilities. In competition the army relies on its Intelligence capabilities as a key element in preparing the operational environment and understanding threat capabilities and vulnerabilities. Throughout the competition continuum, army Intelligence provides commanders and staffs at each echelon needed situational awareness to visualize and Command a battle in all domains, the electromagnetic spectrum, and the information environment and to converge organic and external capabilities at decisive spaces.

4 This Concept describes the key challenges, solutions, and supporting capabilities required to enable army Intelligence to support MDO across the competition continuum against near-peer competitors to accomplish campaign objectives and protect national interests. It serves as a basis for modernization actions for army Intelligence forces, organizations, and capabilities. This Concept also identifies implications for other supporting and enabling functions. It will inform development of other concepts, experimentation, capabilities development activities, and other future force modernization efforts to achieve the MDO AimPoint Force.

5 EDMOND M. BROWN Brigadier General, army Acting Director, Futures and Concepts Center AFC Pam 71-20-3 iv This page intentionally left blank AFC Pam 71-20-3 v Preface From the Commander United States army Intelligence Center of Excellence After nearly two decades fighting the Global War on Terror, the army is pivoting to prepare for competition or large scale combat operations against a near-peer or peer threat. Our organizations, tools, and training have all focused on a decentralized fight against an asymmetric threat.

6 The Joint Force dominated most domains and held significant technological advantages across the battlefield. To successfully transition from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to potential large scale combat operations, the army must change. In December 2018, the army published a new operating Concept , Multi-Domain Operations, in response to new threat capabilities. Intelligence has long been a multi-domain warfighting function, integrating and synchronizing collection from all domains, to support situational understanding and decision-making across echelons. army Intelligence has always been out front in the competition fight.

7 The shift to large scale combat operations requires commanders to see farther, understand sooner, and share wider than ever before. The army selected an aim point of 2028 for initial capability and 2035 for full capability. army Intelligence eagerly accepts this challenge. The transition of army Intelligence to support the MDO AimPoint Force 2035 is already in progress. Institutional learning identified capability gaps, and organizational, materiel, and training solutions are underway to mitigate those gaps. Affecting change takes time, and our clock is ticking. This Concept outlines the plan army Intelligence will execute to deliver capability to the MDO AimPoint Force 2035 and beyond.

8 It describes the organizational, material, and training changes already begun and identifies future efforts that will improve that capability. These changes will allow commanders to see farther, understand faster, and share wider across the competition continuum. They will improve interoperability across the Intelligence points of presence and with unified action partners. Finally, none of these changes will work without the right people. The army s most valuable resource is people. army Intelligence is no exception to this rule. Finding, recruiting, training, and managing the right Soldiers, leaders, and army Civilians will ensure success whether it is winning the competition fight, or if needed, on future battlefields.

9 LAURA A. POTTER Major General, USA Commanding AFC Pam 71-20-3 vi This page intentionally left blank AFC Pam 71-20-3 vii Executive Summary The army Futures Command Concept for Intelligence provides a plan for army Intelligence force modernization activities to support the army s MDO AimPoint Force 2035 to conduct multi-domain operations across the competition continuum against peer competitors. It provides insights to support the MDO AimPoint Force beyond 2035. This Concept is a modification to the ideas outlined in the 2017 army Functional Concept for Intelligence : Intelligence operates as an enterprise across all domains with extensive partner input.

10 This Concept extends those ideas to address the number one identified army gap in conducting large scale combat operations: deep sensing to support long range precision fires. Leading army Intelligence modernization initiatives are organizational changes to provide capability at echelons above brigade combat team and four materiel solutions to support the deep sensing problem. Organizational changes to support the MDO AimPoint Force 2035 enable theater army , corps, and division commanders to shape the deep maneuver and fires areas with long range precision fires and other effects. At theater level, military Intelligence brigades have increased capacity and the new multi-domain task force has military Intelligence capability.