Army Cyber Command Foundry program provides data-centric military intelligence training

By U.S. Army Cyber CommandAugust 19, 2024

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The U.S. Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) Intelligence directorate (G2) Foundry program offers several training courses for professionals in the Army Cyber enterprise and intelligence communities.

Foundry is a dynamic, quick reaction intelligence training program designed to enhance military intelligence readiness for commanders and senior intelligence officers. The program is enabled to develop training material in response to changing threat tactics, techniques and procedures, new or upgraded military intelligence technological capabilities and processes, modernization and Multi-Domain Operations. Foundry training is available at no cost to Department of the Army military and civilian intelligence personnel. Members of other services, contractor personnel and coalition partners can attend on a space-available basis.

ARCYBER G2 officials explained that they developed the training program to provide streamlined and comprehensive training material on the technical aspects of cyber-based knowledge. The courses extract the requisite technical elements of commercial and military courses and blend them with intelligence practices and tradecraft instrumental to wide-ranging cyber-related missions in support of U.S. Cyber Command priorities. The G2 team also provides outreach to the Military Intelligence Warrant Officer Advanced Course and National Guard exercise support. The program has been validated and approved through Department of the Army G2 Governance.

Distance learning and hybrid (in-person and distance learning) options are available for some courses.

ARCYBER Foundry courses scheduled for the remainder of calendar year 2024 include:

Cyber Technical Training for Intelligence Professionals
Designed for Intelligence Analysts recently assigned to provide intelligence support to cyber operations, the course covers fundamentals related to hardware, software, networks, cloud, DoD Information Network architecture, computer languages, threats and vulnerabilities.
Course dates and locations:
Oct. 7-18 (Georgia Cyber Center, Augusta, Ga.)
Dec. 2-13 (Georgia Cyber Center, Augusta, Ga.)

Intelligence Support to Cyber Operations
A follow-on to the Cyber Technical Training for Intelligence Professionals course that focuses on reporting, Request for Information creation, network intelligence analysis, cyber threat intelligence and analysis, and threat hunting.
Course dates and locations:
Sept. 9-20 (Fort Eisenhower, Ga.)
Oct. 28-Nov. 8 (Fort Eisenhower, Ga.)

Intelligence Support to Information Advantage
A primer for All-Source Analysts to understand the cognitive and human dimensions of information operations used in support of information advantage, that introduces fundamental information to increase analytical tradecraft skills.
Course dates and locations:
Sept. 9-20 (Georgia Cyber Center, Augusta, Ga.)
Dec. 2-13 (Georgia Cyber Center, Augusta, Ga.)

Intelligence Support to Cyber and Information Advantage Orientation
A familiarization-only course designed as a leader’s course, hasty pre-deployment training, pre-exercise training, or institutional training elective. The course covers key cyber and information advantage terms and concepts, major threat actors and groups, deconstructing cyber threats and adversary information advantage activities, cyber and information advantage collection capabilities and analytical models, and creating threat assessments.
Course dates and locations:
Sept. 9-13 (Fort Huachuca, Ariz.)
Nov. 11-15 (Fort Huachuca, Ariz.)

Other Foundry efforts include:

-- Army Intelligence Data Literacy 101 covering key data concepts such as data sources and constructs, interpreting and analyzing data, common data problems, types of analytics, using visualizations and storytelling to craft engaging data stories, and keys to communicating effectively.

-- Advanced Training: 30-day (active duty) and 60-day (Army Reserve and Army National Guard) Live Environment Training opportunities providing hands-on, advanced intelligence training events designed to address theater or mission-specific training gaps, conducted at ARCYBER headquarters at Fort Eisenhower.

For more information and course enrollment, visit the ARCYBER Foundry pages at https://go.intelink.gov/cyberintel (Common Access Card required)

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