text: FM 2-22.3 ________________________________________________________________________________
  • Enables HUMINT to provide accurate and timely correlated
  information to supported commanders through established reporting
  channels.
  • Provides automated analysis tools.
  13-3. Systems such as Trusted Workstation (TWS) can convert HUMINT
  reporting into formats for JTF or CTF, theater, or national consumption.
  TWS can also connect between the SIPRNET and any lower level networks,
  such as coalition, multinational, or NATO, or unclassified networks such as
  NIPRNET or the Internet.
  COLLECTION SUPPORT AUTOMATION REQUIREMENTS
  BIOMETRICS
  13-4. Biometrics is the study of measurable biological characteristics. In
  HUMINT collection, biometric devices, usually computer based, enable the
  HUMINT collector to use biological data to support the collection and
  analysis effort. Biometrics can also be used in non-HUMINT efforts to
  collect and maintain evidence for criminal prosecution. The two major types
  of biometric data that are useful to the HUMINT collector are identification
  data and data that indicate source truthfulness. Identification devices use
  biological information such as fingerprints, voiceprints, facial scans, and
  retinal scans to match an individual to a source database. They can verify
  the identity of a specific individual from the target population during
  screening.
  13-5. HCTs may be equipped with portable equipment for collecting,
  storing, analyzing, forwarding, and retrieving biometric information. The
  BAT is able to identify personnel by using identifying characteristics of
  their irises, fingerprints, or facial photograph. The structured query
  language (SQL) server-based database links identifying characteristics
  with all previous reports related to the person. Once a person’s identifying
  characteristics are entered into the database, if that person is again
  detained and scanned, the system has a probability of identifying them that
  approaches 100 percent. This ability is especially useful for determining if
  a source is providing the same information to multiple collectors; thereby
  avoiding false confirmation of information. HUMINT collectors primarily
  use BAT during screening operations at all echelons; from checkpoint
  screening, to screening at a DCP, to screening at a JIDC. MPs use the
  Detainee Reporting System (DRS) during in-processing at internment
  facilities. The DRS records data for detainee processing and tracking and is
  intended to interact with the BAT system to avoid duplication of effort.
  13-6. The hardware that makes up the system, which is given to MI teams,
  consists of a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) semi-hardened laptop
  computer running an operating system with a graphical user interface. It
  has a camera and an iris scanner, each of which is portable and can be used
  independent of the computer to collect and temporarily store information.
  The system also includes a fingerprint scanner that conforms to FBI
  requirements for admissible evidence. The fingerprint scanner must be
  attached to the computer during use.