U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Transformation Command for Intelligence (JTC-I) officially opened the doors to its newest facility, the Joint Intelligence Laboratory (JIL), which will focus on improving intelligence capabilities and supporting the integration of intelligence, operations and plans.

In a ceremony here today, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Bob Wood, USJFCOM’s deputy commander, said the JIL allows emerging technologies, partnerships across Department of Defense, intelligence community, industry and academia and infusion of intelligence and operations to converge in one location to provide ever-increasing support to activities such as mission readiness exercises, operational planning and mission rehearsal, joint training development, joint experimentation and joint systems integration.

“The JIL provides a forum to take best practices from the leading edge and analyze the utility of those best practices,” Wood said.

U.S. Army Col. Chuck Mehle, JTC-I commander, said the JIL discovers emerging processes, methodologies and technologies to enhance the intelligence discipline, while supporting the transformational activities of the Defense Department and the intelligence community.

“We have been operating for several months, but today is a significant day to us for two reasons; it kicks us up to the next level the collective level of operations of all of our partners and makes them very aware of not only the current body of work, but also the capabilities and the potential of this organization,” Mehle said.

Mehle said the intel laboratory has several shared technologies that allow its analysts to routinely work with organizations like the Defense Intelligence Agency and several other service and national labs.

“This organization is rightly positioned in Suffolk where we have equities across Joint Forces Command and the Department of Defense intelligence community, as well as other organizations to include academia and our contracting partners who are a part of the team,” Mehle said. “They are a solid part of the team that comes in (the JIL).

“You’ll go in and see work groups with a professor, a [defense] contractor and a military member in there working a problem, solving these problems and getting them out. That’s why I am happy to let folks know the value of the gem that is the JIL.”

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