INTELLIGENCE AS A FORCE MULTIPLIER-MEETING WITH COLONEL RICHARD WEBB, USA, DEPUTY PROGRAM MANAGER, JOINT TACTICAL FUSION PROGRAM (JTFP), AND COLONEL JOSEPH GARINO, USA, ASSISTANT PROGRAM MANAGER, JTFP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89B01330R000400750018-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: April 11, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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11 April 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Intelligence as A Force Multiplier--Meeting with Colonel Richard
Webb, USA, Deputy Program Manager, Joint Tactical Fusion Program
(JTFP), and Colonel Joseph Garino, USA, Assistant Program
Manager, JTFP
1, and 1 visited Colonels Webb and Garino at the PRC, Tysons
Corner. The JTFP had been mentioned by Dr. Roger Engel, Office of the
ASD/C31, during our visit with him on 26 March.
2. Colonel Garino presented an informal briefing about the program with
running commentary by Colonel Webb. Congress has mandated that all
intelligence "fusion" efforts of the military will be "joint." The JTFP is
TIARA funded and builds on existing collection systems like J-Stars. One of
the main purposes: to more quickly "see" deeper into the battlefield so that
more exact target locations can be developed for the timely employment of new
tactical missile and other weapon systems. The goal is to automatically
process in the field (at corps and division level) as much information as
possible because the incoming volume of data simply will be too large for
field analysts to assess.
3. The Army program for this purpose is the All Source Analysis System
(ASAS) and the Enemy Situation Correlation Element (ENSCE) is the Air Force
counterpart. Both are being developed as the JTFP under the direction of a
General Harmon who reports to the Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations.
JPL is the system contractor for the program which began in 1982 and should
flower in 1992 after a cumulative expediture of about $1 billion. For the
current fiscal year $150 million is being spent following new Congressional
guidance that the program be "downsized."
4. 1 asked about the attitude of commanders concerning the prospect of an
additional several vans embodying this intelligence capability as part of the
battlefield command element and was told that this is not a problem for them.
Both officers recognized the need for the provision of a communications link
between the ASAS and the ENSCE, an area evidently not being actively worked.
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SUBJECT: Meeting with Colonel Richard Webb, USA, Deputy Program Manager,
Joint Tactical Fusion Program (JTfP), and Colonel Joseph Garino,
USA, Assistant Manager, JTFP
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