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34-787: Intelligence services in the Royal Air Force are delivered by Officers of the Royal Air Force Intelligence Branch and Airmen from the Intelligence Analyst Trade and Intelligence Analyst (Voice) Trade . The specialisation has around 1,200 personnel of all ranks posted to operational air stations, HQs and other establishments of the British Armed Forces , both in the United Kingdom and overseas. Personnel have been employed in intelligence duties since

68-562: A Far East Course and Air Intelligence for Senior Officers. During the period from November 1939 to September 1945, 7,086 Officers of the British Services (including dominion and Allied Forces attached to the RAF) attended over 372 courses. In late 1944, the school was hit twice by German V-1 flying bombs causing damage to the buildings and injuring a number of staff. Following the end of the war, training continued at RAF Highgate until 1948 when

102-589: A Phase 3 training unit (Continuation Specialist Training) for RAF Intelligence Analyst NCOs and Royal Navy and British Army Officers employed in air intelligence duties. On 16 August 2024, the UK's first Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) satellite, named Tyche , was launched. A technology demonstrator satellite had been launched in 2018. Entrants to the specialisation undertake common training at RAF College Cranwell for officers and RAF Halton for airmen. Following initial training, entrants are posted to

136-774: A three week course at the Defence Intelligence and Security School (DISS), the renamed SSI. The first professional Air Intelligence course (RAF Intelligence Course - RAFIC) was run in the Air Intelligence Wing of DISS in 2000, following the school's move to Chicksands in Bedfordshire. After the first two courses, the Royal Navy was invited to send officers to attend and the course was renamed the Joint Air Intelligence Course (JAIC). In 2005, DISS became part of

170-408: Is hoarded, causes conflict points where information transitions from one type to another. The first conflict point, collection, occurs when private transitions to secret information (intelligence). The second conflict point, dissemination, occurs when secret transitions to public information. Thus, conceiving of intelligence using these assumptions demonstrates the cause of collection techniques (to ease

204-484: Is transformed from privately held to secretly held to public based on who has control over it. For example, the private information of a source becomes secret information (intelligence) when control over its dissemination is shared with an intelligence officer, and then becomes public information when the intelligence officer further disseminates it to the public by any number of means, including formal reporting, threat warning, and others. The fourth assumption, intelligence

238-717: The Commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet , No 28 (Orkney & Shetland Islands) Group was formed. It was active for almost one year before disbanding on 15 April 1919. All of it units moved into No. 29 Group . Second World War On 1 November 1942 it reformed within RAF Technical Training Command , at 17/19 Queen Square , London, as No. 28 (Technical Training) Group. It assumed control of units from both Nos. 20 and 24 Group , from 1 January 1943. Cold War The group headquarters moved to Uxbridge after

272-579: The Ministry of Defence . Training at the RAF Intelligence School continued until 1969, teaching non-specialist Officers (GD and Administrators) the basics of Intelligence. The role of Squadron or Station Intelligence Officer was filled by members of the Administrative Branch as a sub-specialisation. On 2 August 1969, the RAF Intelligence School was officially closed and intelligence training

306-746: The QWI ISR Course and Targeting. Entrants to the branch are initially trained as general intelligence analysts and can later sub-specialise in one of a number of trades. Personnel in each sub-specialisation can be employed in a number of locations. As with all RAF trades and sub-specialisations personnel can be employed in a range of locations within the trade or in the wider organisation. These can include: Heads of RAF Intelligence have been: Former military members Intelligence (information gathering) An intelligence assessment reviews available information and previous assessments for relevance and currency. Where there requires additional information,

340-409: The analyst may direct some collection. Intelligence studies is the academic field concerning intelligence assessment, especially relating to international relations and military science . Intelligence assessment is based on a customer requirement or need, which may be a standing requirement or tailored to a specific circumstance or a Request for Information (RFI). The "requirement" is passed to

374-535: The Air Ministry decided that the School should move to the Air Ministry building as they were de-requisitioning the property. The Branch was split up into Administrative and Special Duties Branch (Photography) and Administrative and Special Duties Branch (Signals), with no dedicated Air Intelligence specialisation. In 1965, the three service intelligence departments were amalgamated in the new Defence Intelligence Staff at

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408-584: The Defence College of Intelligence and the Air Intelligence Wing was renamed Horus Training Delivery Wing. Following a re-organisation in 2007, the structure was changed again and the Defence School of Intelligence (DSI) was set up with Air Intelligence Wing as a sub-organisation as the Phase 2 training unit (professional specialist training) for all RAF Intelligence Analyst Airmen, RAF Intelligence Officers, plus as

442-604: The Joint Intelligence Training Group (JITG) Chicksands, in Shefford , Bedfordshire for specialist training. The Air Intelligence Wing of the Defence School of Intelligence (DSI) delivers the Joint Air Intelligence Course (JAIC) to officers and the Operational Air Intelligence Course (OpAIC) to airmen. These courses prepare the individual for posting to intelligence roles. After completion of

476-479: The RAF Intelligence School was officially constituted and given a proper home at Caen Wood Towers. The site was set up as Royal Air Force Station Highgate around grounds and outbuildings of the Caen Wood estate. This included accommodation, messing, equipment stores and a medical centre. Because of the sensitivity of intelligence and covert operations during the war, the site was not made fully public and it operated under

510-662: The Second World War, the Intelligence Branch became larger to encompass the Signals Intelligence staff at Bletchley Park and the Imagery Intelligence staff at RAF Medmenham . At the outbreak of war, the Air Ministry recognised the need for formalised Intelligence training and established a number of courses to teach Volunteer Reserve Officers the art of intelligence analysis. Much of this early training

544-449: The assessing agency and worked through the intelligence cycle , a structured method for responding to the RFI. The RFI may indicate in what format the requester prefers to consume the product. The RFI is reviewed by a Requirements Manager, who will then direct appropriate tasks to respond to the request. This will involve a review of existing material, the tasking of new analytical product or

578-561: The benefit of an independent Intelligence Branch, creating the GD (Intelligence) Branch. They required more information and warning on the potential enemies around the world in order to maintain the diminishing RAF's ability to react. In 1997, GD (INT) became the Operations Support (Intelligence) specialisation that is in existence today. However, training for officers focused on imagery analysis with general intelligence being taught at Ashford on

612-456: The collection of new information to inform an analysis. New information may be collected through one or more of the various collection disciplines; human source , electronic and communications intercept , imagery or open sources . The nature of the RFI and the urgency placed on it may indicate that some collection types are unsuitable due to the time taken to collect or validate the information gathered. Intelligence gathering disciplines and

646-402: The decision is made to intervene, action is taken to fix the target, confirming that the intervention will have a high probability of success and restricting the ability of the target to take independent action. During the finish stage, the intervention is executed, potentially an arrest or detention or the placement of other collection methods. Following the intervention, exploitation of

680-576: The first tour of duty, airmen can choose to further specialise in Imagery or Signals Analysis. These Phase 2 specialist courses are delivered in the joint environment alongside intelligence specialists of the Royal Navy , British Army or Ministry of Defence civil servants . Further training courses are provided throughout a career, in; Intelligence Mission Support, Collections Management, Cyber Warfare, Human Intelligence , PsyOps, ISR Management; including

714-421: The format may be made available for other uses as well and disseminated accordingly. The analysis will be written to a defined classification level with alternative versions potentially available at a number of classification levels for further dissemination. This approach, known as Find-Fix-Finish-Exploit-Assess ( F3EA ), is complementary to the intelligence cycle and focused on the intervention itself, where

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748-628: The formation of the RAF in 1918. But the first dedicated RAF Intelligence Branch was established in late 1939 following the outbreak of the Second World War on 3 September. This model was also adopted by other Commonwealth nations. The new Intelligence Branch was initially called the General Duties (Admin) Branch but later renamed the Administrative and Special Duties Branch (for Intelligence duties). At

782-435: The guise of an RAF convalescence hospital. A number of different courses were run lasting between five days and three weeks, teaching Air Intelligence, Escape and Evasion, and Basic Intelligence Analysis for direct entrants to intelligence work. The majority of the instruction was given by visiting specialists (from Air Ministry, MI-6, MI-9 , Central Interpretation Unit Medmenham and Station "X" at Bletchley Park .) The unit

816-411: The information collected, reaching a conclusion along with a measure of confidence around that conclusion. Where sufficient current information already exists, the analysis may be tasked directly without reference to further collection. The analysis is then communicated back to the requester in the format directed, although subject to the constraints on both the RFI and the methods used in the analysis,

850-704: The private-secret transition) and dissemination conflicts, and can inform ethical standards of conduct among all agents in the intelligence process. No. 28 Group RAF No. 28 Group RAF (28 Gp) is a former Royal Air Force group which disbanded in March 1950. It initially formed in July 1918, then disbanded in April 1919. The group reformed in November 1942 as No. 28 (Technical Training) Group within RAF Technical Training Command . First World War On 13 July 1918, at Stenness under

884-458: The sources and methods used are often highly classified and compartmentalised, with analysts requiring an appropriate high level of security clearance . The process of taking known information about situations and entities of importance to the RFI, characterizing what is known and attempting to forecast future events is termed " all source " assessment, analysis or processing . The analyst uses multiple sources to mutually corroborate, or exclude,

918-422: The subject of the assessment is clearly identifiable and provisions exist to make some form of intervention against that subject, the target-centric assessment approach may be used. The subject for action, or target, is identified and efforts are initially made to find the target for further development. This activity will identify where intervention against the target will have the most beneficial effects. When

952-416: The target is carried out, which may lead to further refinement of the process for related targets. The output from the exploit stage will also be passed into other intelligence assessment activities. The Intelligence Information Cycle leverages secrecy theory and U.S. regulation of classified intelligence to re-conceptualize the traditional intelligence cycle under the following four assumptions: Information

986-632: The time, officers of the Intelligence Branch performed the duty of Squadron Intelligence/Protection Officer or aircrew on ground tours in the Air Ministry Intelligence Department. These officers were mainly trained pilots on a ground tour or who for medical reasons could no longer fly. In 1939 the Secret Intelligence Service also established a dedicated Air Intelligence Section under the command of Group Captain F. W. Winterbotham (Chief of Air Intelligence, MI-6 ). During

1020-528: The training was moved to 14 Ryder Street, St James, London. In September 1940 they moved back to Harrow to Fisher Road School, Wealdstone. Incorporated into the syllabus was the Advanced Intelligence Course, designed for Senior RAF Intelligence Officers from operational commands, and certain Royal Naval and British Army intelligence officers. The first of these courses started on 28 October 1940 and

1054-553: Was soon awarded a badge (crest) as a proof of the high official regard for the value of the school. The badge consisted of a Sphinx , denoting wisdom, backed by a sun in splendour, depicting elucidation, with the motto Praemonitus Praemunitus which translates as "Forewarned is Forearmed". In 1943, the Unit was transferred for administrative purposes to No. 28 Group RAF under RAF Technical Training Command . Additional courses were added for Security, Air Intelligence for RAF Bomber Command ,

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1088-482: Was three weeks in duration. This series continued without interruption and in 1942 developed into the RAF Intelligence School. In September 1942, the training school moved to Caen Wood Towers (Caenwood Towers), Highgate (this building was later renamed Athlone House ). By this time it was clear to the Air Staff that intelligence was a positive and vital element affecting Air Ministry policy, strategy and planning, so

1122-565: Was transferred to the School of Service Intelligence (SSI) at Ashford , Kent. In the 1950s the Photographic Interpretation (PI) Branch was formed for commissioned officers to be employed at the reconnaissance intelligence centres attached to aircraft units, and also to work at the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (JARIC) at RAF Brampton . By the start of the 1990s, the RAF could see

1156-524: Was very simplistic and did little more than introduce those to be employed in intelligence duties to the structure of the secretive organisation and where sources came from. The first series of courses started on 20 November 1939 at Hibbert Road in Harrow . These were short courses of seven days' duration giving a broad picture of intelligence in Commands, Groups and Stations . After five of these courses had been run,

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