Fort Bliss Monitor

JTF-6 opens new operations center

Armando Carrasco
JTF-6/JTFN Public Affairs

JTF-6 Commanding General, Brig. Gen. John A. Yingling, second from left, cuts the ceremonial ribbon and officially opens the command’s new Joint Operations Coordination Center. Assisting at Friday’s ceremony were U.S. Border Patrol Field Intelligence Center Director, Carlos Almengor, left; JTF-6 Command Sergeant Major, John Barner; El Paso Intelligence Center Director, Jim Mavromatis; and Operation Alliance Director, Randy Hill, left to right from center.

Joint Task Force Six conducted a ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly constructed Joint Operations Coordination Center July 30.

The new center, located on the JTF-6 compound at Fort Bliss’ Biggs Army Air Field, will organize and capitalize on the existing intelligence capabilities of law enforcement and Department of Defense agencies.
The JOCC will be staffed by military operations and intelligence specialists from all four branches of service, and will include active duty, reserve component, and DoD civilian intelligence specialists and contracted support personnel. The JOCC staff will plan support operations and fuse multi-source information to develop actionable intelligence data that will be passed to U.S. Northern Command and law enforcement agencies.

The coordination center is equipped with new state-of-the-art information systems that are electronically linked to DoD and the nation’s law enforcement intelligence communities.

The JOCC will support JTF-6’s upcoming expanded homeland defense role. It is scheduled to become Joint Task Force North Oct. 1.

“JTF-North will advance DoD’s security cooperation goals, while striving to synchronize and coordinate federal and state homeland defense operations,” said Brig. Gen. John A. Yingling, JTF-6 commanding general.

As with its counterdrug support mission, JTFN will continue to provide the military personnel executing its new homeland defense mission with extensive training opportunities that are directly related to their traditional military duties.



www.bliss.army.mil	Published for the Fort Bliss/El Paso, Texas Community	August 5, 2004

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