Army Col. Richard Leach, intelligence director at the Defense Information Systems Agency, said he is focused on establishing the foundation for DISA’s new intelligence office, called J-2, Federal News Network reported Friday.
“My big thing in the last year has been how do I build the J-2? I need people, I need authorities, I need capability, I need funding. How do I get billets? How do we move unused billets from the other parts of the agency that aren’t using it over to the J-2?” Leach told FNN at a conference in Baltimore.
When it comes to forming J-2, the Army colonel said his focus is on DISA’s physical, logical and cognitive equities and that he intends to ensure that the agency’s intelligence requirements are integrated into the defense and industrial enterprise.
According to Leach, it could take at least two years to onboard about 30 people into the new intel shop and make the J-2 unit fully operational.