DIA reorganizing space intelligence assessment?

This is ol' Bill, so some caution is in order. Parts of it, though,
do ring true.


Inside the Ring
by Bill Gertz
May 25, 2007
Notes from the Pentagon
Space intel wars

Defense officials say a turf war is shaping up that could diminish the
capabilities of the government's most important space intelligence
center, the Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center
(NASIC). The Air Force center, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base, Ohio, was the key center in identifying China's secret anti-
satellite weapons program and monitoring the provocative Jan. 11 test
by China of an anti-satellite weapon.

The officials say NASIC's space-threat analysis work is in danger as a
result of a Defense Intelligence Agency reorganization plan that seeks
to take the space-threat missions from NASIC, which is under the Air
Combat Command, and give it to DIA-run components, including the
Missile and Space Intelligence Center in Huntsville, Ala., the Army
National Ground Intelligence Center in Charlottesville and the Office
of Naval Intelligence.

"These actions by DIA are clearly not based on the outstanding
performance of NASIC in this area over the last 10 plus years, but
rather demonstrate DIA's gross mismanagement of defense intelligence
by putting political interests ahead of providing the best
intelligence for the nation," said one official opposed to the move.

Critics say the reason for the move is that DIA was "asleep at the
switch" on the Chinese anti-satellite program.

"DIA has repeatedly ignored requests by NASIC over the last four years
for more resources to work the counterspace-threat issue," the
official said. "During this same period of time, DIA allowed, and
quite possibly encouraged, other defense intelligence organizations to
ignore their counterspace-threat analysis missions."

Moves to gut NASIC could also be coming from the National
Reconnaissance Office, which has opposed NASIC's threat analysis of
growing space-weapons dangers and sought threat assessments from
contractors. The NRO, which builds and operates military spy
satellites, has sought to play down the growing threat to its "birds"
in space and is now facing the danger that by 2010, China could
destroy all low Earth orbit satellites in a series of strikes,
effectively blinding the military.

"The NRO prefers [and rewards its contractors] for threats that are in
sync their corporate plans," the official said. "NASIC has been
providing threat information to the NRO for over 10 years, and over
the last four to five years many of NASIC threat analyses have caused
a great deal of anxiety at the NRO."

Both DIA and NRO spokesmen denied that NASIC is being gutted.

A DIA statement said their agency and the Air Force are "in
discussions" over the "alignment of analytic priorities and
responsibilities with regard to a handful of missile systems."

"We do not expect these discussions to result in moving missions,
personnel or resources from either [the Missile and Space Intelligence
Center] or NASIC," the statement said.

An NRO spokesman denied that the agency was shopping for less alarming
space-threat analyses from defense contractors outside NASIC.

However, an April letter to Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, the DIA director,
from 12 Ohio members of Congress calls for the DIA to review its plans
for NASIC. Officials said as a result, Gen. Maples has placed the
effort on hold

Unfortunately, NASIC is going to become just another big dollar-
dividing waste of our hard earned loot and limited resources, as
having only recently become too energy spendy for most of us to
afford, but otherwise NASIC (much like our spendy 104 acre oil-sucking
theme park in Baghdad) is representing yet another cash cow for those
in charge. We can't even keep 90% of the intelligent life on Earth
(up until lately, much of which having been a whole lot smarter about
surviving than us humans) from forced extinction, and otherwise we're
continually trying to exterminate one another over the likes of
natural gas, coal, oil and yellowcake (most all of which is
unavoidably loaded with elements of Radium/Ra226 and thus having been
contributing Radon/Rn222 into our surface environment).

Where's the need of "Space Intelligence" within this following:

Though without question we have been making a rather bad global
warming situation worse, however there's simply not enough of
atmospheric or surface pollution to represent the majority/root cause
our demise via greenhouse. Short of setting Earth on fire, I'd give
our human contribution as being worth as little as 10% of the ongoing
GW problem, with perhaps 25% at most being the case.

If you were a smart enough ET, that was out and about looking for a
spare world to live upon, or even to exploit for all it's worth, as
such would Earth be an attractive planet? (especially with it's nearby
and truly massive mascon of a moon doing it's tidal and a few other
nasty things)

Our Earth's volume (including its polluted atmosphere that's actually
becoming very corrosive) is at least 98.5% fluid, and perhaps only at
best a tenth of that which is solid is at all human worthy within the
range of what good technology can insure, although actually of less
than 1% of that solid portion is suitable for us humans in the buff,
of our surviving upon or within 0.01% of this unusually wet, salty and
otherwise extensively fluid orb. As such from the outside looking in,
Earth doesn't hardly seem all that ET friendly, nor hardly worth the
effort of extracting whatever unless it's our rather unusual cache of
salt that you're looking for.

Of our existence having only recently applied 13 teraWatts or even 130
teraWatts of energy, as supposedly contributed by all that's
sustaining humanity, is almost nothing compared to what the raw
applied physics of what our unusually massive and nearby moon is doing
to us.

Unless we can eventually relocate our moon out to Earth's L1, start
getting used to having 256 teratonnes of h2o within our badly polluted
atmosphere, along with lots of our nifty soot, CO2, methanes and much
worse elements (including lots of new and improved Rn222 as radon gas
right on the deck), plus eventually 100 meters worth of much warmer
and saltier ocean depths accommodating mostly jellyfish populated dead
zones.

Notice how the Jewish mindset and of similar faith based skewed
thinking still doesn't see any problems whatsoever with any of this
global warming or spendy energy fiasco, that's obviously becoming way
too bloody. Follow these rusemaster actions back to the root of their
mindset, and as such you'll see a mostly faith-based borg like
collective of what a modern day Jewish skewed mindset is all about,
not that all such faith based folks are the bad guys, just the ones in
charge of having been pulling all those other puppet strings.

Just like we didn't need DHS, we simply do not need to deploy any
stinking NASIC, whereas instead what we need is a good retroactive
butt kicking load of common sense and deductive reasoning, about
accomplishing the long-term salvation of our badly failing
environment, and otherwise a focus upon obtainable goals that are
mostly terrestrial and not as such going to get folks bankrupt, dead,
or wishing they were. As we create more folks as having lost all hope
and thereby perceiving they have little if anything further to lose,
as such are not going to be unlike Usama bin Laden.
-
Brad Guth
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"whoever controls the past, controls the future" / George Orwell

Or maybe not.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed...396r_page2.htm

A meeting of the minds?

In the May 25 Inside the Ring, Bill Gertz cites a source who
asserts that the Defense Intelligence Agency is arbitrarily planning
to reassign space-threat analytic functions from the National Air and
Space Intelligence Center in Dayton, Ohio, to other organizations, to
include the Missile and Space Intelligence Center in Huntsville, Ala.
This assertion is false.

The source also claims that decisions concerning the assignment of
missions are based on "political interests." This claim also is
baseless. Defense intelligence resources are applied in a reasoned
manner against the nation's critical intelligence issues.

Contrary to the assertions of the article, the agencies and
centers of the defense intelligence community, including the Defense
Intelligence Agency, the National Air and Space Intelligence Center,
and the Missile and Space Intelligence Center, together with their
colleagues throughout the national intelligence community, operated in
a collaborative and cooperative manner in their accurate predictions
and analysis of the recent demonstration of the Chinese anti-satellite
program. To state otherwise is a disservice to the great work of these
dedicated intelligence professionals.

Space and counterspace-threat analysis is a critical mission area.
The nation should be proud of the professional work our analysts are
doing and the manner in which they are integrating their efforts; the
country is well-served by their diligence.

I am willing to meet with the "defense officials" Mr. Gertz cited
to provide them accurate information on our defense intelligence
program, if they are willing to hear it.

LT. GEN. MICHAEL D. MAPLES
Army
Director
Defense Intelligence Agency
Pentagon