Ensuring Warfighters Have the Intelligence Support They Require: Q&A with Lt. Gen. Koziol

September 6, 2010

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Lieutenant General John C. Koziol is the deputy under secretary of Defense (intelligence) for joint and coalition warfighter support, and the director of the Department of Defense Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Task Force. As deputy under secretary, Koziol serves as the principal adviser to the under secretary of defense for intelligence on operational issues concerning departmental ISR programs and related ISR activities supporting the warfighter. Additionally, his responsibilities include policy, strategy and doctrine; warfighter requirements and evaluation; information operations and strategic studies; and special programs. As director of the ISR Task Force, Koziol leads a department-wide effort to assess and propose options for maximizing and optimizing currently deployed ISR collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination capabilities as well as the supporting infrastructure and communications architecture.