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Human Terrain System. "No terrain is more important than the Human Terrain.“ GEN Allen, CDR ISAF 2 MAY12. Overall Brief is. Human Terrain System. Origin/Problem Solution Current efforts Path Forward Potential for working together. 2. Human Terrain System. 3.

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  1. Human Terrain System "No terrain is more important than the Human Terrain.“ GEN Allen, CDR ISAF 2 MAY12 Overall Brief is

  2. Human Terrain System Origin/Problem Solution Current efforts Path Forward Potential for working together 2

  3. Human Terrain System 3

  4. Specific Capability Gaps Insufficient understanding of target areaculture & its impact on operational decisions; insufficient or ineffective transfer of knowledge to follow-on units Limited Joint, Service, or Interagency capability (organization, methods, and tools) to conduct research, visualize, understand, and explain human terrain (localpopulation) BCTs, RCTs, and Div-level HQs lacked operationally relevant human terrain knowledge base & social science staff experts necessary to optimize MDMP Commanders limited by lack of a Joint, Service, and Interagency integrated capability (people, organization, methods, tools) to effectively gather/consolidate, analyze, visualize, understand, database, and share socio-cultural information. HTS answering Joint Need “US Forces continue to operate in Afghanistan lacking the required resident and reach-back socio-cultural expertise, understanding, and advanced automated tools to conduct in-depth collection / consolidation, visualization, and analysis of the operationally-relevant socio-cultural factors of the battle space.” AF JUONS (unclass) “Human terrain knowledge deficiencies exist at all command echelons…detailed knowledge of host populations is critical in areas where US forces are being increased to conduct counterinsurgency and stability operations in Iraq. US forces continue to operate in Iraq without real-time knowledge of the drivers of the behavior within the host population. This greatly limits Commanders’ situational awareness and creates greater risks for forces.” IZ JUONS (unclass)

  5. Human Terrain System Mission • HTS develops, trains, and integrates a social science based research and analysis capability to support operationally relevant decision-making, to develop a knowledge base, and to enable sociocultural understanding across the operational environment. • USMC International Affairs Officer Program (IAOP) Mission • Identify, select, and train a corps of International Affairs Marines for future assignments on tactical, operational, and strategic-level Marine Corps staffs, Joint and Combined staffs, and for duty with interagency organizations and the Defense Attaché System in order to improve MAGTF plans, operations, security assistance, and intelligence efforts with cultural, language and regional expertise. Mission similarity: Sociocultural and cultural, language, regional expertise Embedded and Staff Support Joint, Combined, Interagency 5

  6. Social Science Research & Analysis (SSRA) Current HTS Support to ISAF Contingency Funded Capabilities: Team Research & Support Requests CMIP interface; integrate, aggregate and archive team products Theater Coordination Element (TCE) HTS Admin & logistics support Theater Support Office (TSO) Research Reachback Center (RRC) TNG Project Mngmt/KM HTS Products posted on: NIPR, SIPR, SharePoint, CENTRIX, CIDNE Human Terrain Analysis Team (HTAT) • Enduring Capabilities: Army sociocultural research & analysis capability • (FY 11-15 Army Base Budget (MIP) & OCO) • Recruiting unique skill sets • Training: Individual and team • Sociocultural Reachback Research Center • Project management (capability development, lessons learned, doctrine, engagement) • KM (data repositories and MAP-HT) -Aggregate and integrate HTT information & conduct further analysis Contracted indigenous, theater-wide survey capability Human Terrain Team (HTT) Admin & RRC Research Support -Gather data in respective geographic areas -Conduct sociocultural analysis to support unit operational decision making process 6 UNCLASSIFIED

  7. Human Terrain Information and Data • Unstructured Information • Published reports, flat files • Teams disseminate to multiple repositories • Geo-referenced reports • Way Ahead: Single repository posting, Human Terrain Knowledge Center. • Structured Data • Utilizing existing community standards for data schemas. • Maintaining consistency with DCGS-A data standards. • Data sets support logical build and opportunity for geospatial and temporal analysis. CIDNE TiGR Tactical Entity Database HT/CA Data Model (DCGS-A) Global Graph (DSC) BCT Portal INDURE RC-x Portal ISAF-IJC Portal NGA Human Geography Themes Demographics Religion Language Ethnicity Transportation Economy Education Land Use Medical/Health Political/Ideological Communication/Media Significant Events Water DSF COP Layers NIPR HTKC CX-I HTKC SIPR HTKC

  8. HTS Core Curriculum Overview 55 Training Days Graduation and Transition to DAC Ceremony INPROCESSING (5 Days) Rsch Ops (5 Days) INDIVIDUAL TRACK TRAINING (10 days) RESEARCH OPS EXERCISE (10 days) Pre- Mobilization ( 5 Days) FOUNDATIONS SKILLS (10 Days) RESEARCH OPERATIONS (25 Days) DEPLOY to FPLA (9 Weeks) then to THEATER Team Dynamics and Effectiveness Culture and Language Program (20 x 2 hour sessions) Foundations (10 days): mission & organization of HTS, Army organization & values, how BCT commanders and staffs see the world, process information, and make decisions, & team dynamics (including practical exercises) Research Operations (25 days): the HTS Core Competency – how to design, conduct, and report operationally relevant socio-cultural research as part of an HTS team; ethics in research. Individual Track Training (10 days): the individual skills and knowledge required by each respective position. Research Operations Exercise (10 days): students form into teams; learning, demonstrating, and being assessed on the HTT collective and individual tasks. Culture and Language (20 sessions threaded throughout): relevant culture and regional language.

  9. HTS Teams • Regionally focused, modular, special staff capability • Attached on orders to and in direct support of the BCT / RCT, PRT, Division/MEF/Regional Command, & Corps/Theatre • Support Coalition Forces (Regional Command, Brigade, PRT) • Team composition: • Reserve military or DA term Civilian • Positions: Team Leader, two Social Scientists, two Research Managers • Once deployed, teams remain in place to mitigate unit transitions; staggered individual replacement • Tour Length: Ten (10) months (can extend to 18 months) • Up to two training courses per quarter (8/year) / 26 students each class Focus on the local population

  10. Who conducts our mission? • Team leaders (Reserve LTC/MAJ/GG-14) • 27 of 31 team leaders are DA term civilians (all have military experience) • Experience level: Mid-grade to senior officers, senior NCOs; all services • Social scientists (GG-12 / GG-14) • Majority have not served in the military or in government positions • High density social science disciplines: anthropology, Int’l conflict/Relations/Studies, psychology, communications • Research Managers (GG-12) • Knowledge management, collection management, requirements management • Deployed team members • 25% are female

  11. Human Terrain System Support to ISAF (pre-drawdown) HTS Teams in AFG TCE – 1 HTAT- 7 HTT - 23 RC-N X 4 Parwan X 4 Kabul RC-E RC-W HTS supported allies: RC-S RC-SW FAO Opportunity?

  12. Afghanistan (USMC/HTS) • Similarity of Mission: Two staff members providing separate input on same issues • Opportunity for HTS to have Joint presence to answer Joint Need. • Opportunity for FAO to support solution for a Joint Need. • Opportunity to develop/share KM/IT (How does the FAO program store and share information?) • HTS working AHRPO effort (Army Human Research Protection Office) • Opportunity to develop/share reachback (does FAO program have a reachback effort?) • Operational Feedback from previous and current HTS users • Afghanistan is one deployment of what could be a larger coordination effort • No cost training and deployment • HTTs are on Regt Staffs- • Gives HTT Uniformed USMC presence for increased staff integration • Puts FAO into a “unit” conducting the same mission

  13. Existing Enduring Capabilities:The Army approved specific HTS enduring capabilities in the FY 11-15 Army Base Budget. These capabilities include: HTS Project Management (which includes a COCOM coordination capability) Reachback Research HTS Training Knowledge Management (including MAP-HT & data repositories) TRADOC Capability –Based Assessments (CBA): Joint StaffBattlespace AwarenessFunctional Capabilities Board validated that HTS is an enduring capability with applications to Phase 0 Intelligence Warfighting Function Functional Solutions Analysis (FSA) cites HTS teams, reachback, MAP-HT, & data architecture as solutions to capability gaps Building Partner Capacity (BPC) CBA contains multiple high priority sociocultural capability gaps; contains multiple proposed HTS capability solutions HTS Enduring Capabilities FAO Reachback? KM/IT? Staff Training? The FY 11 Army Campaign Plan assigned tasks to CG TRADOC include “operating and sustaining the deployed Human Terrain System (HTS) teams” & “institutionalizing the HTS capability”

  14. Path Forward • FY 13/14 GOAL: Enduring (POM Funded) Army Force Generation capability coupled with COCOM support • ACP 2012: Army G2 Task: “As ARSTAFF lead, ICW G3/5/7, support TRADOC efforts to operate and sustain the deployed…HTS teams and to evolve the institutionalized HTS capability to address lessons learned.” HTS Proponency Options JKO Distance Learning: • Research Manager curriculum modules on JKO • FY 13 all curriculum modules on JKO • FY 13 OEF mission transition is being coordinated. End result: 20 teams. • FY 12 Pilot efforts at COCOMs. • Phase 0 (Shape) HTS team support to ASCCs

  15. Socio-Cultural Operational Capabilities TRADOC G2 Cultural Knowledge Consortium Human Terrain System Requirement: Joint Urgent Operational Needs Statements (20 deployed teams), Army Campaign Plan 2012, developing ASCC requirement Requirement: 2011 Consolidated Intelligence Guidance, Army Culture and Foreign Language Strategy, Army Campaign Plan 2012

  16. JIIM Civil and Socio-cultural issues have Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental and Multinational organizations with efforts that overlap. • DOTMLPF • Reachback capabilities • Training • Knowledge Management • Deployed Teams

  17. QUESTIONS?

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