Col. Dave Branch, commander of the 780th Military Intelligence (MI) Brigade, was the keynote speaker in a ribbon cutting ceremony on May 30th at a new U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) facility in the Fort Meade area which is now officially the home for several INSCOM units.
The facility will house the 781st MI Battalion and the Cyber Solutions Development detachment, both subordinate units under the 780th MI Brigade; the 310th MI Battalion, 902nd MI Group; and could house other INSCOM elements in the future.
According to Lt. Col. Justin Considine, the commander of the 781st MI Battalion, the facility is a modern administrative office building which provides fully-equipped work spaces for personnel from the 780th MI Brigade and the 902nd MI Group, both major subordinate commands under INSCOM.
After a brief welcome to those in attendance, Col. Branch talked about the importance of the new facility and what it will mean to the Army and the Joint Force.
"What you are standing in has clearly been a dream for a while," said Branch. "You have optimized mission command, space for consolidated capability development, and a shared operational environment for leveraging natural linkages between the 780th MI Brigade and 902nd MI Group. I think that's the biggest opportunity as we occupy the facility and work together."
The facility brings together the 781st MI Battalion, which conducts signals intelligence and cyberspace operations, with the 310th MI Battalion which conducts technical counterintelligence operations and support, counterespionage investigations and analysis and production.
Branch said the new facility provides a mission space tailored to enhance collaboration and partnership between the two units, and along with the developers and the hardware/software lab of the 780th, these assets would "empower (the brigade's) mission, teams, the Army and the Joint Force."
"We're early on into this, but we're operational in a lot of ways," said Branch. "And the 902nd is quickly coming into their own (as they move into their new space) and then we'll start to see this thing exponentially ramp up."
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