Air Force seeks greater clout in regional commands.

• Author: Erwin, Sandra I.
• Position: Washington PULSE - Brief article

The Air Force soon will be reorganizing its intelligence operations--which currently are so balkanized that the senior leadership doesn't have a good grasp of the services own assets and skills. That makes it difficult to win key billets in influential organizations such as U.S. Central Command.

"We need help in reconstructing our bench of senior intelligence officers so that we can viably compete for joint interagency positions," says Lt. Gen. David Deptula, deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. "The Air Force has not had a combatant commander J-2 in more than five years," he says. Although the director of the CIA is an Air Force general, the service is not "adequately represented...