The HRO Memphis Field Office, located in the Wainwright Building (S-456), is a satellite of HRO New Orleans. They provide civilian personnel management support to 53 activities with a service population in excess of 1,200 civilian employees.

The Memphis Field Office serves as a liaison office with the Human Resources Service Center located at Stennis Space Center, Miss. to provide personnel and Equal Employment Opportunity servicing for all Department of Navy appropriated-fund civil service positions on the Navy Mid-South complex. On-site employee/labor relations, employee development and EEO programs are administered from this office. Additional information may be obtained by calling 874-5324.

JRIC Memphis reports to the Commander, Naval Reserve Intelligence Command via the Officer in Charge, Reserve Intelligence Area THREE headquarters in New Orleans. With an active duty complement of two full-time support personnel and a civil service admin officer, JRIC Memphis is responsible for providing administrative guidance, information systems administration, training and facilities support for two Naval Reserve Intelligence Units, one Naval Reserve Security Group Detachment and one Army Military Intelligence Operations Detachment. The four units collectively have a total membership in excess of 130 drilling Selected Reserve personnel.

The mission of the JRIC is to provide support to all branches of the Armed Forces where there are Selected Reserve personnel who are currently drilling from Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force Reserve components. These dedicated Reservists come to duty from at least 10 states, including Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Texas, Florida and Alabama. In addition to drilling the required one weekend each month, Reservists assigned to JRIC Memphis annually perform a 2-week active duty training tour here or at the headquarters for their respective gaining commands.

The Joint Reserve Intelligence Program has always contributed a significant percentage to the gaining commands “real time” intelligence needs. It is not uncommon for JRIC Memphis Reservists to be mobilized under involuntary active duty orders, or to volunteer for long periods of active duty, performing missions work at the JRIC Memphis site or other locations around the world.

The NCIS is a worldwide Federal Law Enforcement Agency staffed almost entirely by civilian Special Agents. The primary mission of the NCIS is to prevent terrorism, protect secrets and reduce crime for the Navy and Marine Corps communities throughout the world.

The Combating Terrorism Directorate directs NCIS support for efforts aimed at detecting, deterring and disrupting terrorism against Department of Navy personnel and assets worldwide, bringing a wide array of offensive and defensive capabilities to the mission of combating terrorism. Offensively, from the counterterrorism side, NCIS conducts investigations and operations aimed at interdicting terrorist activities. Defensively, from the antiterrorism side, NCIS supports key DoN leaders with protective services and performs vulnerability assessments of military installations and related facilities—including ports, airfields and exercise areas to which naval expeditionary forces deploy.

Presidential Executive Order 12333 defines counterintelligence as “information gathered and activities conducted to protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage or assassinations conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers, organizations or persons or international terrorist activities.”

Within the DoN, NCIS has exclusive investigative jurisdiction in non-combat matters involving actual, potential or suspected terrorism, sabotage, espionage and subversive activities. Presidential Executive Orders 12958, 12968 and 12829 define national security information and establish the NCIS mission in safeguarding classified information, vetting personnel for trustworthiness. NCIS is the DoN’s primary law enforcement arm and investigates all major criminal offenses (felonies)—those crimes punishable under the Code of Military Justice by confinement of more than one year—within the DoN.

Crime poses a threat to every segment of today’s society, including the Navy and Marine Corps. These criminal threats can include homicide, arson, domestic violence, drug trafficking, as well as white-collar offenses such as procurement fraud or embezzlement.

The NCIS Resident Agency Memphis is located on the second floor of the McCloy Building (S-238) and has an area of operational responsibility over all or part of eight states surrounding Tennessee. NCISRA Memphis also has satellite offices in St. Louis, Mo. at the National Personnel Records Center and in Crane, Ind. at the Naval Surface Warfare Center.