Air Force Intelligence Command, a major command with headquarters at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, activated Oct. 1, 1991. AFIC was formed by integrating the people and missions of the Electronic Security Command, the Foreign Technology Division (now the Foreign Aerospace Science and Technology Center), the Air Force Special Activities Center (now the 696th Intelligence Group), and elements of the Air Force Intelligence Agency. Mission AFIC's mission is to provide direct intelligence support to national decision makers and field air component commanders. This support includes timely services, products and resources in the interrelated areas of intelligence, security, electronic combat, foreign technology and treaty monitoring. AFIC also gives combat commanders data that helps them decide when to exploit, jam, deceive or destroy hostile military communications to deny enemy commanders effective command and control of their forces. The intelligence mission includes human intelligence, or HUMINT, and scientific and technical intelligence support to the command's customers. Organization AFIC comprises approximately 17,000 people at organizations located worldwide. AFIC's special organizations and functions include: Foreign Aerospace Science and Technology Center The focal point for the scientific and technical intelligence mission is the Foreign Aerospace Science and Technology Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The center develops scientific and technical intelligence by analyzing all available data on foreign weapon systems to determine performance, capabilities, characteristics and vulnerabilities. The center publishes studies on current aerospace capabilities and potential threats posed by possible adversaries. Although the center's responsibilities encompass the entire range of aerospace systems, they essentially involve aircraft, air- launched and ballistic missiles, space systems, radars, and directed energy weapon systems having potential military applications. (Directed energy weapon systems include lasers, electronic and electro-optic countermeasures, communications and command and control systems, air defense systems, industrial resources, and new technological advances.) Sophisticated data processing and analysis techniques enable the center's scientists and engineers to accomplish this diverse mission. The resulting analyses help national defense decision makers, U.S. system designers and operational commanders counter foreign threats. Air Force Electronic Warfare Center AFEWC, Kelly Air Force Base, provides electronic combat analysis and support to Air Force elements. Formed during the Vietnam War, the center is a primary source of electronic warfare, and command, control and communications countermeasure analyses and advice for the Air Force. The center maintains a massive data base of electronic combat-related information used throughout the Department of Defense. The data assists air component commanders in making electronic combat decisions. AFEWC people, using the latest electronic warfare equipment, also perform analyses to support planning, developing and testing. The center supports the electronic combat acquisition process, from development of statements of need through final testing, by providing specialized analyses to Air Force major commands and the Air Staff. Air Force Cryptologic Support Center AFCSC, Kelly Air Force Base, is the Air Force's focal point regarding cryptologic matters. The center provides advice and technical assistance on cryptologic matters to AFIC, other Air Force major commands, combat commanders, the National Security Agency and other national agencies. The deputy commander for cryptologic operations is AFIC's authority for operational cryptologic issues worldwide and provides technical expertise to the AFIC commander. Operations are primarily com-posed of four functional divisions: fixed operations, space and advanced programs, airborne and mobile operations, and operations support. The deputy commander for cryptologic logistics also controls maintenance, logistic management, engineering, distribution and special projects. The deputy commander for securities is the Air Force executive agent for communications security (COMSEC), computer security (COMPUSEC), operations security (OPSEC) and control of electronic emanations (TEMPEST). AFCSC also provides program management procurement and life-cycle support for all DOD space COMSEC equipment. It is the only military agency capable of performing depot-level repair and space-flight recertification of space COMSEC equipment. 696th Intelligence Group The 696th Intelligence Group, Fort Belvoir, Va., conducts AFIC's human intelligence mission. HUMINT is a vital component of Air Force intelligence that involves interviews of people as the source of information. It also complements data collected by technical means. In peacetime, the 696th collects foreign intelligence in support of Air Force, theater command and national requirements. In times of war or military contingencies, the group provides direct HUMINT support by enemy prisoner-of-war interrogations, refugee and detainee debriefings, and exploitation of captured documents. AFIC Wings As major components, AFIC's four intelligence wings provide command and control to their sub-ordinate units and intelligence liaison to the major commands they support. The 26th Intelligence Wing, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, provides support to the U.S. Air Forces in Europe; the 692nd IW at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, to the Pacific Air Forces; the 693rd IW at Kelly Air Force Base, to those in the continental United States and Panama; and the 694th IW at Fort Meade, Md., to government elements in the Washington, D.C., area. Joint Electronic Warfare Center AFIC provides support to the Joint Electronic Warfare Center, a Joint Chiefs of Staff organization collocated with Headquarters AFIC. The AFIC commander also is the Joint Electronic Warfare Center director.