Based at Newport News, VA. Includes Director, Deputy Director, and Project Staff. Project Staff functions include human resources, operations, social science, COCOM coordination, & knowledge management / information technology (IT).

A Continental United Stated (CONUS)-based research and analysis element within the Human Terrain System that provides direct support to deployed HTTs, HTATs, and TCE. The RRC consists of social scientists, as well as uniformed and civilian analysts, organized in regionally-focused cells. Accessing open source and classified information, the RRC provides in-depth analysis to support the forward deployed HTTs, HTATs, & TCEs to address immediate requirements of in-theater military units. Moreover, it populates and maintains the HTS knowledge repository while concurrently surfacing and mitigating key database gaps. The RRC provides support to Afghanistan, today, and support to other COCOMs as required.

Individual replacements for deployed teams train in Leavenworth, KS. The training for deploying personnel consists of focused regional study, field research methods and techniques, staff planning and procedures, and training to use the Mapping the Human Terrain (MAP-HT) Toolkit software. The training culminates with a capstone exercise intended to simulate sociocultural planning and support of a deployed usit.

HTS training is continuously assessed; feedback is used to refine the Program of Instruction (POI). In FY 10, the HTS training curriculum underwent a complete POI review and revision. In FY11, HTS reduced training to 11 week socio-cultural course at Leavenworth, followed by attendance at U.S. Forces Command’s (FORSCOM)’s Security Force Advisor training course at Ft. Polk, LA.

MAPPING THE HUMAN TERRAIN (MAP-HT) Social Science Tools: In FY 11, HTS deployed teams are being trained and equipped with the Mapping the Human Terrain (MAP-HT) toolkit software. MAP-HT consists of a web-enabled server-client environment configured with applied social science software applications to support collection, storage, data aggregation, processing, analysis, visualization, production, and dissemination of socio-cultural products for the Commander and staff as well as the greater stakeholder communities.

In FY 10, the MAP-HT Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) successfully concluded. In FY 11, the MAP HT software was fielded to Afghanistan. MAP-HT is now an Army G2 Quick Reaction Capability (QRC)

Civil Considerations data model: In coordination with our JCTD partners (U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command, Army G2), HTS developed a Civil Considerations logical Data Model to guide the development of data bases that account for the structured data categories needed by HTS, Civil Affairs, and other organizations engaged in population-centric operations. The data model links to the ASCOPE (area, structures capabilities, organizations, peoples, and events) and PMESII (Political, Military, Economic, Social, Infrastructure and Information System) constucts for addressing the doctrinal description of Civil Considerations. MAP-HT will enable the structured socio-cultural data gathered and analyzed by HTS to populate the Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A) database, for enhanced information sharing with other organizations & agencies.

Socio-Cultural Knowledge Base & Support: As part of OSD’s overall way ahead plan for Socio-Cultural Analysis, the Consolidated Intel Guidance (CIG) tasks the Army to:


Socio-Cultural Knowledge Base & Support: As part of OSD’s As part of OSD’s overall way ahead plan for Socio-Cultural Analysis, the Consolidated Intel Guidance (CIG) tasks the Army to:

"commence development and maintenance of a socio-cultural knowledge infrastructure (SKI) on behalf of the Defense Intel Enterprise by May 2012 to support the availability, analysis, and storage of socio-cultural data to satisfy COCOM socio-cultural information requirements."

Individual replacements for deployed teams train in Leavenworth, KS. The training for deploying personnel consists of focused regional study, field research methods and techniques, staff planning and procedures, and training to use the Mapping the Human Terrain (MAP-HT) Toolkit software. The training culminates with a capstone exercise intended to simulate sociocultural planning and support of a deployed usit.

HTS training is continuos HTS training is continuously assessed; feedback is used to refine the Program of Instruction (POI). In FY 10, the HTS training curriculum underwent a complete POI review and revision. In FY11, HTS reduced training to 11 week socio-cultural course at Leavenworth, followed by attendance at U.S. Forces Command’s (FORSCOM)’s Security Force Advisor training course at Ft. Polk, LA.

The requirements with COCOMs and Army Component Commands, assisting them in translating their operational needs into HTS requirements.