This module prepares students for a role as an intelligence officer with government agencies, enhancing their application through comprehensive human intelligence training in codes and signals.
Students will understand the relevance of letters and numbers, learn about elevated and lowered letters, and study sounded codes (Dots) along with their translations. The curriculum includes insights into alternate alphabets used by government agencies and the ADF, such as polyalphabetic and substitution codes like EI, EO, and AE.
Additionally, students will learn code hacks such as BCF, EG, FiiT, FE, and SU, while also grasping the complexities of circular codes (ADA) and angular code hacks. They will develop the ability to read codes without solving them mathematically and understand basic codes used in advertising, as well as those employed in the media and press for cross-country communication.
Furthermore, the training will cover the study of code in speech, enabling students to communicate secretly with others while maintaining a normal conversation, an essential skill for any intelligence officer.
This unit applies to intelligence officers working with human sources in a community intelligence environment and includes operational procedures for covert operations. Human sources may be: covert, community, or contact. This program prepares students for human intelligence training and making application to the Department of Home Affairs or Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as a covert commonwealth officer.
This unit covers the competencies required for intelligence officer training, focusing on managing the gathering of information, operational security, and the safety of human sources:
- Liaise with outside agencies as required
- Prepare and deliver orders and briefs in accordance with standard procedures
- Receive instructions to conduct activity and confirm details with the supervisor
- Direct and supervise a counter-surveillance team in accordance with the counter-surveillance plan
- Direct and supervise subordinates in accordance with organisational requirements
- Conduct post-activity analysis and make subsequent recommendations, in accordance with standard procedures
- Make planning decisions based on a logical process to solve operational problems
- Identify operational surveillance against yourself
- Conduct risk assessment and procedures in a corporate and government setting.
- Identify and approve resources and timelines required for learning activities in accordance with organisational requirements
- Gather and handle human source and agent intelligence
- Read and understand a police brief of evidence including tracking using ANPR, call charge records, bank monitoring, and LEAP.
Discuss strategies for safeguarding signals intelligence (SIGINT) approaches while integrating human intelligence training elements. Define the roles and responsibilities that support SIGINT environments, including those relevant to intelligence officer training. Conduct a gap analysis between the SIGINT baseline and best practices. Evaluate detection concepts and assess the implementation of advanced signal processing techniques. Analyze, assess, and optimize propagation effects and models for challenging environments. Furthermore, evaluate and implement the necessary security controls to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) in SIGINT environments.
Principles behind Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) encompass various ISR missions and intelligence architectures that are crucial for effective operations. These missions are a fundamental component of command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) applications. Within this framework, we focus on image intelligence (IMINT), signals intelligence (SIGINT), and measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT). The collection and exploitation of signals transmitted from various communication systems, particularly communications intelligence, play a pivotal role. Additionally, the intersection of SIGINT and Electronic Warfare (EW) is significant, alongside the training provided for intelligence officers, including human intelligence training and signals intelligence training, which enhances the effectiveness of Electronic Intelligence (ELINT).
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