The United States Army Intelligence Center of Excellence (USAICoE) is the
United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cla ...
's school for professional training of
military intelligence
Military intelligence is a military discipline that uses information collection and analysis approaches to provide guidance and direction to assist commanders in their decisions. This aim is achieved by providing an assessment of data from a ...
personnel. It is a component of
United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC).
History
![Ft Holabird Sphinx](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Ft_Holabird_Sphinx.png)
The center was relocated from
Ft. Holabird,
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
to
Fort Huachuca, Arizona
Fort Huachuca is a United States Army installation, established on 3 March 1877 as Camp Huachuca. The garrison is now under the command of the United States Army Installation Management Command. It is in Cochise County in southeast Arizona, appr ...
in 1971. The move involved more than 120 moving vans, a unit train and several aircraft. The initial intelligence training facilities were a
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
hospital complex that had not been occupied in several years.
Training
The school conducts resident courses for
enlisted
Enlisted may refer to:
* Enlisted rank
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,
warrant officer
Warrant officer (WO) is a rank or category of ranks in the armed forces of many countries. Depending on the country, service, or historical context, warrant officers are sometimes classified as the most junior of the commissioned ranks, the mos ...
, and
commissioned officer
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Broadly speaking, "officer" means a commissioned officer, a non-commissioned officer, or a warrant officer. However, absent context ...
personnel, as well as for international military students in military exchange programs. United States Army personnel who train at the school become members of the
Military Intelligence Corps
The Military Intelligence Corps is the intelligence branch of the United States Army. The primary mission of military intelligence in the United States Army is to provide timely, relevant, accurate, and synchronized intelligence and electronic ...
. AIT students training to become Systems Maintainers (42 weeks), Intelligence Analysts (16 weeks), Human Intelligence Collectors (19 weeks), Geospatial Intelligence Imagery Analyst (22 weeks), UAS Operators (23 weeks), and Special Agents with
United States Army Counterintelligence
United States Army Counterintelligence (ACI) is the component of United States Army Military Intelligence which conducts counterintelligence activities to detect, identify, assess, counter, exploit and/or neutralize adversarial, foreign intellige ...
, all receive training here.
Military Intelligence Hall of Fame
The school also administers the
Military Intelligence Hall of Fame
The Military Intelligence Hall of Fame is a hall of fame established by the Military Intelligence Corps of the United States Army in 1988 to honor soldiers and civilians who have made exceptional contributions to military intelligence. The hall is ...
.
List of commanders
* MG
John M. Custer III, 29 June 2007
* MG
Gregg C. Potter, 8 December 2010
* MG
Robert P. Ashley, 19 April 2013
* MG
Scott D. Berrier, 31 July 2015
* MG
Robert P. Walters Jr., 14 July 2017
* MG
Laura A. Potter, 19 July 2019
* MG
Anthony R. Hale, 12 August 2020
See also
*
National Intelligence University
The National Intelligence University (NIU), formerly known as the Defense Intelligence School, the Defense Intelligence College, the Joint Military Intelligence College, and the National Defense Intelligence College is a federally chartered resea ...
*
Mercyhurst University Institute for Intelligence Studies The Ridge College of Intelligence Studies and Applied Sciences at Mercyhurst University (RIAP), located on the campus of Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania, offers undergraduate and graduate studies programs in intelligence analysis. The ...
*
Camp Peary
Camp Peary is an approximately 9,000 acre U.S. military reservation in York County near Williamsburg, Virginia. Officially referred to as an Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity (AFETA) under the authority of the Department of Defense, ...
*
United States Army Military Intelligence
The Military Intelligence Corps is the intelligence branch of the United States Army. The primary mission of military intelligence in the United States Army is to provide timely, relevant, accurate, and synchronized intelligence and electronic ...
In other countries
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Canadian Forces School of Military Intelligence
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Defence College of Intelligence
References
External links
Intelligence Center Online NetworkUniversity of Military IntelligenceFort Huachuca
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Education in Cochise County, Arizona
Training installations of the United States Army
Military education and training in the United States
Military in Arizona
Military intelligence
Intelligence education
Military units and formations established in 1971