The Pegasus 
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| Director's Brief, Colonel Sharon
Hamilton
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Amazingly, it's the beginning of Spring, 2011! I was
blessed to end 2010 by visiting our teams deployed in Iraq and meeting the units
they expertly support. The dedication, mission focus, and professionalism of our
deployed HTS teammates is unwavering. Our support of Operation New Dawn (OND)
continues and we are coordinating closely with the US Forces-Iraq leadership to
determine the way ahead.
In Afghanistan, we continue to support US,
Marine, and Allied forces from the brigade level to theater. In response to
additional requirements, we are fielding four additional teams in Afghanistan to
provide the deployed units with a baseline of socio-cultural understanding. We
are working alongside key civil-military enablers to include civil affairs and
female engagement teams. HTS teams continue to provide our unique, team-based,
social science research methodology to support decision-makers.
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Latest News From The Field
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Social Scientist conversing with elder of Paktya Province
(Story
Coming Soon)
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| Latest From CONUS
| Training & Education | Social Science |
Research in Review for 2010
by Christopher King, PhD
The Social Science Directorate, Knowledge Management and the Reachback Center are categorizing all products produced in Afghanistan (AF) and Iraq (IZ). The graphic below illustrates that a total of 2,015 products (811 IZ and 1,204 AF) were posted on SharePoint in 2010 for both Iraq and Afghanistan. More years will be added as time permits. HTT/HTATs in Iraq posted 532 products. An additional 221 came from RRC, and 58 from SSRA. Similar results were also produced by HTT/HTAT in Afghanistan with 837 team products, 284 additional from RRC, and 83 from SSRA.
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Fort Polk
Recently, a HTS team underwent Fort Polk's standard training alongside other military units given pre-deployment. The Combat Advisor Training Course represented a way for human terrain teams to experience first-hand the importance of integrating with the military framework to more fully prepare them to support the Soldier they will be working with down-range in a combat zone.
Deputy Director, COL Mark Bartholf said, “The participation in the 162nd INF BDE instruction pilot evaluates the feasibility of processing through Fort Polk prior to future downrange deployments.
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The Social Science Mobile Knowledge Team (SSMKT) is a concept
designed to provide assistance to Human Terrain Teams (HTT) and Human Terrain
Analysis Teams (HTAT) in the field. On 17 November 2010, the SSMKT was tasked by
the Director of Human Terrain System (HTS) to conduct a pilot project in order
to ascertain value, viability, and feasibility of the SSMKT. From 22 December
2010 to 08 January 2011, the SSMKT embedded with five HTT & HTAT teams in ISAF
HQ Regional Command South (RC-S) located in Kandahar Province.
The mission of Social Science Mobile Knowledge Team is
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| Reachback Research Center
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Resources | Knowledge
Management |
The Reachback Research Center (RRC) main purpose is to help the
forward-deployed Human Terrain assets answer commanders' specific requests for
information concerning his AOR. The RRC enables supported commanders to access a
wide body of academic knowledge in order to rapidly address a wide range of
socio-cultural issues in their AOR that affect their operational decisions.
There is one RRC with two geographically separate cells. The Fort
Leavenworth RRC, consisting of 25 analysts, primarily supports deployed HTS
assets in Afghanistan. The Newport News, Virginia RRC, consisting of 23
analysts, primarily supports deployed HTS assets in Iraq.
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TRADOC G-2 Operations Offers Employees Insight
The "business" office for TRADOC G-2 Fort Monroe manages
three large administrative components: contracts, human and financial resources.
Known as G-2 Operations, they perform these staff functions for not just
HTS, but other organizations as well, tracking personnel, budget, pay and a host
of issues for hundreds of employees.
Deputy Director of Operations Sarah Brown says, "working
with HTS is like managing three tribes -- military, contractors and Department
of Army Civilians, whose benefits and pay are all separately determined."
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The Knowledge Management Directorate is sending two data content analysts
and two field service representatives to work with deployed team to improve HTS
support for Commanders through efficient knowledge sharing. In Iraq the KM staff
will work to close-out a 7 or 8 years mission for departing teams in what one
FSR calls "a really interesting time in Iraq." They will check on equipment
status, in some cases transporting it to where it needs to be. In large part
they will be working to accomplish objectives identified by the TSO in Baghdad.
The KMO, Tom Best, manages the team and his senior engineer, Jashaan Robinson,
works to support the TSO.
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