DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE

AIR INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

MISSION DIRECTIVE 1521

HQ AIR INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 15 April 1997

Intelligence

566TH OPERATIONS SUPPORT SQUADRON

1. Mission.

The 566th Operations Support Squadron (566 OSS) is located at Buckley Air National Guard Base, Aurora, Colorado. The 566 OSS:

1.1. Provides Air Intelligence Agency (AIA) personnel to accomplish national tasking.

1.2. Provides direct support to a multiservice organization responsible for supporting national-level communications, data processing, and high-speed data relay. Delivers essential information to national decision makers, Commanders in Chiefs (CINC), tactical commanders and other military forces worldwide. Responds to tasking on multibillion-dollar national systems and provides instruction to more than 500 joint-service personnel.

2. Command.

The 566 OSS is a subordinate unit to the 544th Intelligence Group, subordinate to AIA, a field operating agency subordinate to the Director of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (AF/XOI).

3. Responsibilities.

The 566 OSS:

3.1. Leads, supports, and develops Air Force personnel in performance of military duties and responsibilities while teaming with site and command management to meet the site's requirements for Air Force expertise. Teams with other service components, Colorado Air National Guard, and Air Force Space Command to meet executive agent support responsibilities such as: planning, finance and budgeting, personnel management, training, site integration, operations management, service and infrastructure support.

3.2. Acts as facility host for service cryptologic elements and liaison to 821th Space Group serving in a multiservice Department of Defense facility hosted by Air Force Space Command on a Colorado Air National Guard Base.

MORGAN M. BECK Director of Plans and Requirements