Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com FM 34-54 S&TI on technical characteristics and capabilities of foreign naval forces and merchant systems. It provides S&TI support to the Commander of the ONI and the Chief of Naval Operations. ARMY: Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence (ODCSINT) . Although ODCSINT does not produce intelligence, it does have general staff responsibility for all Army TECHINT activities. The ODCSINT— Formulates policies and procedures for S&TI activities. Supervises and carries out the Army S&TI program. Coordinates Department of the Army (DA) staff and major subordinate command requirements for TECHINT.
Is responsible for the Army Foreign Materiel Program (FMP). US Army Materiel Command (AMC) . AMC is a major Army command (MACOM) with a significant support role in TECHINT. Among AMC elements are a series of research, development, and engineering centers (RDECs), the Army Research Laboratory System, and the US Army Test and Evaluation Command (TECOM). Each plays a role in wartime in conducting highly technical evaluations of foreign equipment. In peacetime, the AMC conducts foreign materiel exploitation (FME) on equipment purchased by each laboratory and RDEC for the intelligence community and for DOD as part of the International Materiel Evaluation Program (IMEP).
AMC's Foreign Ordnance exploitation team is at the Fire Support Armaments Center (FSAC) EOD (Picatinny Arsenal). They exploit foreign ground ordnance and develop RSP for foreign ordnance. They also prepare detailed intelligence reports to support EOD, Intelligence, and US munitions developer communities. Additionally, AMC operates the Scientific Intelligence Center Europe (STICEUR ) and Scientific Intelligence Center Far East (STICFE) with the purpose of overtly collecting information on foreign technical developments by attending arms shows and technology exhibitions. AMC's Chemical and Biological Defense Command (CBDCOM) is the headquarters for the US Army Technical Escort Unit (TEU).
This unit has the mission to collect and escort nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) samples from the battlefield to CONUS for testing and evaluation. 2-5