This 13-week DOD-certified course is an expansion of Phoenix’s Field Collectors Course, which has been continuously run since its inception in 2004.
It trains DOD personnel in the tactics, techniques, and procedures of controlled HUMINT collection in strategic and tactical environments
DOD personnel learn to safely operate where U.S. forces are deployed in hostile environments.

The course is divided between classroom instruction, practical exercises, and performance evaluations. In addition to learning how to properly conduct a controlled HUMINT operation with all its variables, students learn source acquisition and handling, communication skills, personality profiling, security measures, using interpreters, legal issues, intelligence reporting, and many other skills and concepts essential to running human collection operations. Students participate in challenging exercises enhanced with additional training on HUMINT operations in high-threat environments. They perform practical exercises in tactical environments, and learn enhanced operational skills for rural and hostile HUMINT operations. Survival, use of cover, and land navigation training are included. A rigorous team-based culmination exercise rounds out this training.

The 10-week DOD-certified Joint Interrogation Course trains DOD intelligence professionals to perform interrogations at the field entry level under the supervision of senior interrogators.

The course teaches the fundamentals of human behavior and communication as applied to interrogation. Students learn approach and interrogation techniques, how to plan, prepare, and complete a successful interrogation, and how to provide accurate intelligence reports based on results. Among other topics, classes include the fundamentals of human interactions, and skills in interpersonal and cross-cultural communications. Other topics include interrogation operations and the contemporary HUMINT operating environment. Students perform a series of comprehensive interrogation sessions from planning and preparation to termination and writing intelligence reports. Experienced role-players work with students individually to hone their interrogation styles and techniques. An extensive two-week scenario-based practical exercise follows. Phoenix Course Development personnel will be happy to meet with you to discuss course topics in detail, teaching and training methodologies employed, and to tailor this course to your organization’s specific needs.

This 3-5 week course prepares selected intelligence personnel to conduct and support HUMINT collection operations across the spectrum of operational requirements, ranging from tactical to strategic, and from deployment during pre-hostility phases to combat operations.

Students learn the operational cycle, lowlevel source operations, elicitation and debriefing, interrogation techniques, use of cover, land navigation, reporting, survival, first aid, and other essential skills. The student also learns the current C/J2X structure and its applicability to HUMINT collection operations. A practical exercise follows each training module, with succeeding modules built upon that foundation.
Based on your personnel’s training needs, the BHCC ranges from 3 to 5 weeks in length. Phoenix Course Developers can help you assess your training needs and adapt the program accordingly.

The HOFC familiarizes students with the basic knowledge and skills of human intelligence operations in preparation for assignments in DOD intelligence components.

While HOFC is not a screening or certification course for future training or assignments, it teaches the basic tenets of HUMINT and helps students assess their own abilities. Phoenix instructors can evaluate a student’s aptitude for and make recommendations on particular HUMINT activities for which a student is suited, such as Debriefer, Interrogator, or Controlled Collection Officer.
The course includes practical exercises as well as formal classroom instruction. Among other training modules, students learn conceptual, doctrinal, legal, and technical aspects of conducting operations within various HUMINT sub-disciplines; the fundamentals of HUMINT collection and controlled HUMINT collection operations; surveillance detection; effective security measures; and a basic understanding of elicitation, interrogation, and debriefing operations andtechniques.

The one-week HIAC familiarizes intelligence analysts with HUMINT collection. Classes enhance analysts’ abilities to produce quality products and to improve support to field collectors.

Phoenix instructors acquaint students with HUMINT collection procedures. Students learn HUMINT methodologies at strategic, operational, and tactical levels. Hands-on practical exercises enhance the training experience.
Topics include HUMINT collection, management and support, legal implications including the Geneva Conventions, Intelligence Oversight, and Ethics. Students will also learn targeting and assessment, asset validation, debriefing, interrogation, and J2X operations, and many associated topics that will build confidence and understanding. Students will also learn security and survival techniques for use when deployed in high threat environments.