As announced below, Navy Aircraft Carriers will now have an Intelligence Department….

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COMPACFLT DET INTEL READINESS CELL SAN DIEGO CA
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MSGID/GENADMIN,USMTF,2008/COMNAVAIRLANT NORFOLK VA//
SUBJ/ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT//
POC/CAPT DULLUM/N2/UNIT:CNAL/CNAP/NAME:NORFOLK VA/
TEL: (757)836-8206/EMAIL:JOHN.DULLUM(AT)NAVY.MIL//
POC/CDR MACK/N22/UNIT:CNAL/NAME:NORFOLK VA/
TEL: (757) 836-8207/EMAIL:YERODIN.MACK(AT)NAVY.MIL//
POC/CTTCS BOWMAN/N21B/UNIT:CNAL/NAME:NORFOLK VA/
TEL: (757) 836-8210/EMAIL:CASEY.BOWMAN(AT)NAVY.MIL//
GENTEXT/REMARKS/1. THIS COORDINATED COMNAVAIRLANT/COMNAVAIRPAC MESSAGE PROVIDES GUIDANCE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT ABOARD ALL AIRCRAFT CARRIERS (CVN).  THE PURPOSE IS TO ADVANCE FLEET INFORMATION WARFARE READINESS BY STANDARDIZING THE INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT ACROSS THE FLEET BY CONSOLIDATING INFORMATION WARFARE DISCIPLINES AND CAPABILITIES UNDER A SINGLE DEPARTMENT AND FORMALIZES THE EXISTING INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT STRUCTURE FOUND ON CVNS TODAY. THEREFORE, THE CVN INTELLIGENCE CENTER (CVIC), CRYPTOLOGIC WARFARE DIVISION COMPRISING THE ELECTRONIC WARFARE MODULE (EW) AND SHIPS SIGNALS EXPLOITATION SPACE (SSES) AND METEOROLOGICAL (METOC) DIVISIONS WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE CVN OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT AND RE-ALIGNED UNDER THE INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT, IDENTIFIED BY THE NOMENCLATURE Q.  THE BILLET STRUCTURE WITHIN THESE DIVISIONS WILL REMAIN UNCHANGED WITH THE SHIP’S INTELLIGENCE OFFICER AS THE DEPARTMENT HEAD.  DIVISIONAL NOMENCLATURE CHANGES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
METOC DIVISION (OA) SHALL BE QO DIVISION
CRYPTOLOGIC WARFARE (OS) DIVISION SHALL BE SEPARATED IN TWO:
SESS (OS01) SHALL BE QC DIVISION
ELECTRONIC WARFARE MODULE (OS02) SHALL BE QW DIVISION
CVIC DIVISION (OZ) SHALL BE QZ DIVISION.
2.  THIS RE-ALIGNMENT WILL BE PROMULGATED IN FUTURE JOINT FLEET MAINTENANCE MANUAL (JFMM) REVISIONS.  FOLLOWING RELEASE OF THIS MESSAGE, CVN INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENTS SHALL USE THE ABOVE LISTED STRUCTURES.  ALL WORK CENTER RELATED EQUIPMENT AND MAINTENANCE SHALL BE REALIGNED BY AN AUTOMATED SHORE INTERFACE (ASI) SUPPLIED BY THE CONFIGURATION DATA MANAGER (CDM).   ALL RELATED EQUIPMENT PMS SHALL BE REALIGNED BY SUBSEQUENT PMS FORCE REVISION. SPACE OWNERSHIP AND DAMAGE CONTROL EQUIPMENT SHALL MOVE TO UPDATED DIVISIONAL STRUCTURES BY THE INDIVIDUAL WORK CENTERS.  THIS GUIDANCE SHALL BE IMPLEMENTED BY 30 SEP 2017 TO SUPPORT WORK CENTER STANDARDIZATION ACROSS ALL CVNS. //
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