JP 3-28, page 77
Defense Support of Civil Authorities
Joint Publication: Defense Support of Civil Authorities
29 October 2018 public edition (Wayback JCS copy; S2 cited as JP 328 / JP 3-28 DSCA)
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Supporting and Sustaining Activities
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situations. RSTs will not normally provide RS to persons unaffiliated with the US Armed
Forces, absent explicit and unambiguous tasking from proper authority. Examples are
traditional open services and authorized support to persons under the care, control, or
custody of the Armed Forces of the United States. Chaplains, absent any explicit command
prohibition to the contrary, may act in their personal capacity to provide incidental RS to
persons not affiliated with the Armed Forces of the United States during the execution of
an assigned mission under certain criteria. This specific criteria is known as “the four-
pronged test” and is found in Joint Guide (JG) 1-05, Religious Affairs in Joint Operations.
See JG 1-05, Religious Affairs in Joint Operations, for more information.
For an updated list of national and state disaster relief organizations, see the National
Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster website at www.nvoad.org.
3. Intelligence Support
a. Introduction
(1) Commanders should expect FP to be integrated into domestic and domestic
support operations due to a heightened awareness of threats. These needs and expectations
pose unique issues in meeting the commander’s need for information to support DSCA
operations. DOD intelligence components and any unit performing an intelligence
function are governed by DODD 5240.01, DOD Intelligence Activities; DODM 5240.01,
Procedures Governing the Conduct of DOD Intelligence Activities; DODD 5148,
Intelligence Oversight; and DOD 5240.1-R, Procedures Governing the Activities of DOD
Intelligence Components that Affect United States Persons. Other DOD personnel are
subject to DODD 5200.27, Acquisition of Information Concerning Persons and
Organizations Not Affiliated with the Department of Defense. IAW EO 12333, United
States Intelligence Activities (as amended), and DOD policy, the only authorized mission
sets for DOD intelligence components are defense-related foreign intelligence and
counterintelligence. For these reasons, DOD intelligence component personnel are limited
to the performance of only these mission sets. Any use of traditional DOD intelligence
assets or capabilities for nontraditional uses must be expressly approved by SecDef.
(2) Intelligence is the product resulting from the collection, processing,
integration, evaluation, analysis, and interpretation of available information concerning
foreign nations, hostile or potentially hostile forces or elements, or areas of actual or
potential operations. In DSCA operations, since much of this information will concern US
persons, DOD intelligence organizations must take special care to follow the intelligence
oversight regulations and privacy laws. In addition, to the extent that DOD intelligence
components are authorized to collect within the US, they must do so in coordination with
the FBI, which has primary responsibility for intelligence collection within the US.
(3) Whether DOD organizations are conducting an intelligence activity or a non-
intelligence activity for domestic operations or domestic support operations, certain rules
universally apply to data and imagery collected from overhead and airborne sensors.
Geospatial data, commercial imagery, and data or domestic imagery collected and