text: Intelligence Support to Targeting
  based primarily on the AGM - determining the most effective friendly means available to produce the
  commander's desired effect on the target. During the deliver function, the collection management team cues
  collectors to continue tracking targets during their engagement. Preplanned or cued BDA collection and
  reporting assists in determining if the engagement produced the desired effects; if not, continued tracking
  supports immediate reengagement. (See ATP 2-01, ATP 2-01.3, and ATP 2-33.4 for detailed information)
  ASSESS
  B-10. Intelligence supports the assessment function by determining if targeting actions have met the desired
  effects and if reattack is necessary to perform essential fires tasks and achieve the commander's intent for
  fires. Intelligence support to combat assessment relates to specific targets by completing physical damage
  assessments and functional damage assessments. During the assess function, the collection management team
  continuously assesses the information collection effort and compares ongoing actions to the collection
  management plan and the original intent. As operations progress and the situation deviates from the plan, it
  is important to ensure information collection is supporting all requirements. If the staff's assessment reveals
  that some requirements are not answered, the collection management team must reevaluate the collection
  management plan. Then the team and staff must provide input on adjustments to the collection effort,
  retaskings, or the development of new tasks. The collection management team and current operations track
  the situation relative to those requirements to determine the completion of collection tasks; the effectiveness
  of targeting and resulting effects on the target; continued synchronization with other operations or emerging
  collection opportunities; and most critically, the requirements for target reengagement, if required.
  B-11. The assess function of the targeting methodology is nested in the overall continuous assessment of
  operations within the operations and intelligence processes. Assessments are directly tied to the commander's
  decisions throughout the planning, preparation, and execution of operations. Planning for assessment
  identifies key aspects of the operation that the commander directs be closely monitored, and where the
  commander wants to make the decisions. Intelligence plays a major role in assessments as a part of the
  targeting methodology. The assess function of the targeting methodology is performed through combat
  assessment. Combat assessment is the determination of the effectiveness of force employment during military
  operations (JP 3-60). Combat assessment comprises three elements:
  * BDA.
  * Munitions effectiveness assessment.
  * Reengagement recommendation.
  B-12. BDA is the estimate of damage composed of physical and functional damage assessment, as well as
  target system assessment, resulting from the application of lethal or nonlethal military force (JP 3-0). The
  staff determines how combat assessment relates to specific targets by completing BDA. Producing BDA is
  primarily an intelligence cell responsibility but requires coordination across the staff, similarly to IPB and
  most steps of intelligence support to targeting. BDA requirements should be captured as PIRs or as similar
  high-priority information collection requirements. Together, BDA and munitions effectiveness assessment
  provide the commander and staff with an assessment of the effects achieved against targets and whether the
  targeting guidance was met. Based on this information, the staff can recommend reengagement when
  necessary.
  B-13. Characteristics that best describe the intelligence support to targeting effort include deliberate
  planning, collaboration across national to tactical intelligence echelons, and precise intelligence to target
  threat capabilities at the right time and place and to open windows of opportunity to achieve positions of
  relative advantage. This effort is challenging because the threat, especially peer threats, makes precisely
  analyzing threat target systems, predicting threat COAs, accounting for terrain and weather effects, providing
  intelligence specific to a location and time, and accurately assessing the employment of capabilities extremely
  difficult. Intelligence support to targeting includes tracking highly mobile targets and simultaneously
  engaging targets, including targets in complex terrain (such as subterranean and urban areas, and jungle and
  mountainous terrain) across multiple domains, the electromagnetic spectrum, and the information
  environment. Intelligence support to targeting primarily consists of:
  * IPB.
  * Collection management.