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Human Terrain System
Human Terrain System
"No terrain is more important than the Human Terrain.“
GEN Allen, CDR ISAF
2 MAY12
Overall Brief is
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Human Terrain System
Human Terrain System
Origin/Problem
Solution
Current efforts
Path Forward
Potential for working together
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Human Terrain System
Human Terrain System
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Specific Capability Gaps
Human Terrain System
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Insufficient understanding of target area culture & 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 (local
population)
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)
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Human Terrain System Mission
Human Terrain System
HTS develops, trains, and integrates a social science based research
and analysis capability to support operationally relevant decisionmaking, 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
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Current HTS Support to ISAF
Human Terrain System
Contingency Funded Capabilities:
Team Research &
Support Requests
Research
Reachback
Center
(RRC)
HTS
Admin & logistics
support
TNG
Project
Mngmt/
KM
CMIP interface; integrate,
aggregate and archive team
products
Theater Support
Office
(TSO)
HTS Products
posted on: NIPR,
SIPR, SharePoint,
CENTRIX, CIDNE
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)
Human Terrain
Team
(HTT)
-Gather data in respective
geographic areas
-Conduct sociocultural analysis
to support unit operational
decision making process
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Theater
Coordination
Element
(TCE)
Human Terrain
Analysis Team
(HTAT)
Social Science
Research & Analysis
(SSRA)
-Aggregate and integrate
HTT information &
conduct further analysis
Contracted indigenous,
theater-wide survey
capability
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Human Terrain
Information and Data
Human Terrain System
Unstructured Information
Structured Data
• Published reports, flat files
• Teams disseminate to multiple
repositories
• Geo-referenced reports
• Way Ahead: Single repository
posting, Human Terrain Knowledge
Center.
• 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
BCT
Portal
TiGR
Tactical
Entity
Database
INDURE
RC-x
Portal
HT/CA
Data Model
(DCGS-A)
Global
Graph
(DSC)
ISAF-IJC
Portal
NGA Human Geography Themes
NIPR
HTKC
CX-I
HTKC
SIPR
HTKC
Demographics
Religion
Language
Ethnicity
Transportation
Economy
Education
Land Use
Medical/Health
Political/Ideological
Communication/Media
Significant Events
Water
DSF COP Layers
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HTS Core Curriculum Overview
Human Terrain System
INPROCESSING
(5 Days)
55 Training Days
FOUNDATIONS
SKILLS
(10 Days)
Rsch
Ops
(5 Days)
INDIVIDUAL
TRACK
TRAINING
(10 days)
Graduation and
Transition to DAC
Ceremony
RESEARCH
OPERATIONS
(25 Days)
RESEARCH
OPS
EXERCISE
(10 days)
PreMobilization
DEPLOY to FPLA
( 5 Days)
then to THEATER
(9 Weeks)
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.
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HTS Teams
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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)
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Team composition:
– Reserve military or DA term Civilian
– Positions: Team Leader, two Social Scientists, two Research Managers
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Once deployed, teams remain in place to mitigate unit transitions;
staggered individual replacement
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Tour Length: Ten (10) months (can extend to 18 months)
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Up to two training courses per quarter (8/year) / 26 students each class
Focus on the
local population
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Who conducts our mission?
Human Terrain System
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
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Support to ISAF (pre-drawdown)
Human Terrain System
HTS Teams in AFG
TCE – 1
HTAT- 7
HTT - 23
RC-N
X 4 Parwan
X 4 Kabul
RC-E
RC-W
RC-SW
HTS supported allies:
RC-S
FAO
Opportunity?
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Afghanistan (USMC/HTS)
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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
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HTS Enduring Capabilities
Human Terrain System
• 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)
FAO Reachback?
– Reachback Research
KM/IT? Staff Training?
– HTS Training
– Knowledge Management (including MAP-HT & data repositories)
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”
• TRADOC Capability –Based Assessments (CBA):
– Joint Staff Battlespace Awareness Functional 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
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Path Forward
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• 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
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Socio-Cultural Operational Capabilities
TRADOC G2
Cultural Knowledge Consortium
Requirement: 2011 Consolidated Intelligence Guidance,
Army Culture and Foreign Language Strategy, Army
Campaign Plan 2012
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Requirement: Joint Urgent Operational Needs Statements
(20 deployed teams), Army Campaign Plan 2012,
developing ASCC requirement
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JIIM
Human Terrain System
Civil and Socio-cultural issues have Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental and
Multinational organizations with efforts that overlap.
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DOTMLPF
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Reachback capabilities
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Training
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Knowledge Management
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Deployed Teams
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Human Terrain System
QUESTIONS?
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