text: Appendix A
  A-7. Table A 1 depicts the comparison of joint ISR and Army information collection.
  Table A-1. Joint ISR and Army information collection responsibilities
  Joint ISR Army
  Task Responsibility Task Responsibility
  Annex L (Information
  J-2 (in coordination with the G-2 and G-3
  ISR concept of operations Collection) of the plan or
  J-3) (S-2 and S-3)
  order
  Collection management: Collection management G-2/S-2
  • Collection requirements
  J-2 (in coordination with the
  management
  J-3) Direct information collection G-3/S-3
  • Collection operations
  management
  Execute collection Units and organizations Execute collection Units and organizations
  Assessment and retasking Assessment and retasking
  G-2 division or corps intelligence staff officer J-3 operations directorate of a joint staff
  G-3 division or corps operations staff officer S-2 battalion or brigade intelligence staff officer
  ISR intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance S-3 battalion or brigade operations staff officer
  J-2 intelligence directorate of a joint staff
  A-8. The ISR concept of operations roughly corresponds to Annex L (Information Collection) of an Army
  OPLAN or OPORD. The ISR concept of operations—
  ⚫ Documents the integration, synchronization, and operation of ISR resources to support current
  and future operations.
  ⚫ Outlines the capability to task, collect, process, exploit, and disseminate timely and accurate
  information that provides the awareness necessary to successfully conduct operations.
  ⚫ Addresses how all available ISR collection assets and associated PED infrastructure, including
  multinational and commercial assets, will be used to satisfy the joint force’s anticipated
  collection tasks.
  A-9. To facilitate the optimum use of all available ISR assets, the J-2, in coordination with the J-3, develops
  an ISR concept of operations in conjunction with the command’s planning effort. The ISR concept of
  operations should be based on the collection strategy and ISR execution planning, and it should be developed
  jointly by the joint force intelligence and operations staffs. Planning for the ISR concept of operations must
  also identify and discuss any ISR and PED asset gaps relative to the joint force’s validated PIRs. This
  assessment may be used to justify the commander’s request for the allocation of additional ISR and PED
  resources. It should also require a periodic evaluation of the capabilities and contributions of all available
  ISR assets relative to the joint force mission. This maximizes their efficient use and ensures the timely release
  of allocated ISR resources when no longer needed by the joint force.
  A-10. In the joint lexicon, collection management is a process composed of two subfunction, CRM and COM,
  and it requires collection orchestration:
  ⚫ CRM defines what intelligence systems must collect, focuses on customers’ requirements, and is
  all-source oriented and advocates for the information necessary for collection.
  ⚫ COM specifies how to satisfy requirements, focuses on the selection of specific intelligence
  disciplines and systems within a discipline to collect information addressing customers’
  requirements, is conducted by organizations to determine which assets can best satisfy
  customers’ product requests, and is informed by weather conditions, effects, and the timing of
  those effects on collection assets based on current and future forecasts in the OE.
  ⚫ Collection orchestration is the integration, synchronization, and optimization of the intelligence
  process and operations, including national and theater collection integration; all-domain,
  multidiscipline collection strategy development; and end-to-end synchronization of CRM, COM,
  and overhead reconnaissance and DOD ISR mission management systems.