"The naval intelligence community is adrift. Uncertain of its role within the U.S. Navy, it has embarked on a plan to focus naval intelligence on a limited set of specialized skills. None of these skill sets provide the analytical skills needed to track mobile platforms, whether ships, submarines or surface-to-air missiles. Closely tied to the Ocean Surveillance Information System set up to track Soviet ships and submarines during the 1970s and 1980s. Opintel was a skill that enabled naval intelligence to track Soviet forces at sea and to predict the movements and intentions of those forces."