text: FM 3-55
  Field Manual Headquarters
  Department of the Army
  No. 3-55
  Washington, DC, 3 May 2013
  Information Collection
  Contents
  Page
  PREFACE.............................................................................................................. iii
  INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... iv
  Chapter 1 INFORMATION COLLECTION FOUNDATIONS .............................................. 1-1
  Information Collection and Knowledge ............................................................... 1-1
  Information Collection and ISR ........................................................................... 1-1
  Information Collection Activities ......................................................................... 1-3
  Information Collection Purpose .......................................................................... 1-4
  Primary Information Collection Tasks and Operations ....................................... 1-5
  Chapter 2 COMMANDER AND STAFF ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES ..................... 2-1
  The Commander’s Role ...................................................................................... 2-1
  The Commander’s Needs ................................................................................... 2-2
  The Commander’s Guidance ............................................................................. 2-2
  The Staff’s Role .................................................................................................. 2-3
  The Working Group’s Input to Information Collection ........................................ 2-5
  Chapter 3 INFORMATION COLLECTION PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT ................... 3-1
  Information Collection Planning Considerations................................................. 3-1
  Personnel Recovery Support ............................................................................. 3-2
  The MDMP and Information Collection Planning ............................................... 3-2
  Information Collection Assessment .................................................................... 3-8
  Chapter 4 INFORMATION COLLECTION TASKING AND DIRECTING ........................... 4-1
  Importance of Tasking and Directing .................................................................. 4-1
  Final Information Collection Plan ........................................................................ 4-1
  Information Collection Overlay ........................................................................... 4-3
  Information Collection Scheme of Support ......................................................... 4-3
  Chapter 5 INFORMATION COLLECTION ASSETS .......................................................... 5-1
  Information Collection Capability ........................................................................ 5-1
  Information Collection Plan by Level .................................................................. 5-1
  Information Collection Assets by Phase ............................................................. 5-2
  DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTION: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
  * This publication supersedes FM 3-55, dated 23 April 2012.