Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com FM 34-54 Provides TECHINT advice and assistance to the Theater J2. Acts as the TECHINT collection manager for the Theater J2. The JCMEC will be sited by the supported Theater commander. The site should facilitate evacuating, storing, and shipping CEM. The JCMEC also will— Locate to facilitate security. Ensure safety for nearby forces and the local populace. Provide easy access to communications, transportation, and other support facilities. Locate near the Theater ordnance storage site.
JCMEC facilities have common site selection criteria and complementary functions which provide efficient allocation of assets for evacuation, movement, safeguarding, and exploitation of EPWs and CEM. JCMEC will be staffed by the 203d MI Battalion (TECHINT) and augmented by selected service technical representatives and support personnel. Through the supported Theater commander, the JCMEC will have support from military police or security forces, ground and aviation transportation elements, EOD, and other activities as needed.
In accordance with DOD directives, service regulations, and other established policies, all units will collect, identify, tag, secure, and evacuate CEM to designated collection points. In coordination with the JCMEC, and through technical teams and liaisons, Corps and equivalent units will transport or arrange for the transportation of selected items to the JCMEC. In cases of the reported capture of designated CEM of high TECHINT priority and/or time sensitivity, a TECHINT collection team will be deployed to the capture site to conduct initial exploitation and then coordinate and prepare the materiel for hasty evacuation directly to the JCMEC.
JCMEC will function as the Theater's central captured materiel exploitation facility. As such it will— Establish procedures for the exploitation, destruction, or other B-2 CONCEPT