Deployable-level intel providing intelligence to Israeli forces in Gaza

The Israeli Defense Forces said dozens of ADANIM, or Deployable-level Intel, are operational for the first time and are providing intelligence to troops in Gaza amid Israel's war against Hamas terrorists.

"The Center for Defense and Operational Maneuvers is an integrative organization in the Intelligence Directorate tasked with producing, researching and making tactical intelligence accessible to the operational front in order to improve the operational effectiveness of the forces in the field in both defense and offense and lead to quick coordination of firepower combining accurate intelligence and effective firepower," the IDF said in a press release. "During times of routine, the center focuses on force-building for emergencies, and now for the first time, it is supporting IDF operational activity."

The IDF said each division and operating brigade has a back office named ADAN that is used to "integrate and use the variety of sources of gathering and analysis in the Intelligence Directorate and the intelligence community, making the intel accessible to forces in the field."

"The operational demand comes from the division and the brigade to ADAN, where a complete response is given," the IDF added. "In one office, signal monitors, network intelligence officers, analysts, and researchers sit together with the goal of protecting our forces and eliminating Hamas terrorists."

The Intelligence Officer of the 401st Brigade, MAJ Y., said, "One of the most significant challenges for intelligence on the ground is receiving information available in the Intelligence Directorate across its plethora of units: 8200, 9900, 504 and turning it into knowledge for the soldiers in the field."

"The ADAN allows us as a division in the field to sharpen that edge," the intelligence officer said. "The relationship with the ADAN works effectively since it is an organic part of the brigade, which also routinely trains with the brigade and participates in its combat procedures. In this war, we took this multidisciplinary organization and raised it to a new level - all the intelligence personnel in the field are connected by earpiece to the ADAN personnel, thus succeeding in maintaining close coordination against terrorists. This is expressed in operating firepower or directing a tank in the field towards those terrorists. ADAN 401 is responsible for many terrorists who were killed following that close coordination."