text: Chapter 3
  3-130. NAIs should not be tied to specific terrain but developed based on threat locations or suspected
  locations during the MDMP and IPB. Planners use their event template and event matrices to determine
  where to place NAIs and TAIs to confirm or deny threat activity and help determine the threat course of
  action for the commander.
  TARGET AREA OF INTEREST
  3-131. A target area of interest is the geographical area where high-value targets can be acquired and
  engaged by friendly forces (JP 2-0). Commanders use TAIs to apply a specific effect against a specific target
  with a specific outcome. Unit staffs develop TAIs during the MDMP. Commanders designate TAIs for any
  organic or supporting system including lethal and nonlethal effects.
  TIMELY REPORTING AND ASSESSMENT
  3-132. During mission planning and mission execution, Cavalry organizations provide timely and accurate
  combat information through combined arms operations and their associated reports. These reports allow the
  staff and the BCT commander to update their running estimates based on the most recent and accurate reports
  reconnaissance and security operations generate. At the same time, Cavalry operations execute assigned
  security missions while the rest of the force prepares for the overall operation. The force as a whole is often
  vulnerable to surprise and enemy attack during preparation, when forces are often concentrated in AAs.
  Security operations (screen, guard, cover, and area security) are essential during preparation.
  3-133. Commanders take every opportunity to improve their situational understanding before execution of
  the mission. Cavalry forces aggressively and continuously collect information to improve situational
  understanding. Through information collection, commanders and staffs continuously plan, task, and employ
  collection assets and forces to collect timely and accurate information to satisfy the CCIRs and other
  information requirements.
  3-134. The commander and staff’s ability to anticipate changing conditions on the battlefield is key in
  seizing, retaining, and exploiting the initiative. To be effective, the intelligence and operations staffs base the
  information collection plan on the initial IPB and modify it as the intelligence running estimate changes.
  Other staff sections’ running estimates may contain requirements for inclusion into the information collection
  plan. Additionally, the staff plans synchronization into the scheme of maneuver and adds updates as that
  scheme changes. Properly synchronized information collection planning begins with developing and
  updating the IPB including threat characteristics, enemy templates, enemy course of action statements, and
  an enemy event template or matrix.
  3-135. During course of action analysis, the staff focuses on critical events that directly influence mission
  accomplishment. During these critical events, the staff may identify PIRs that answer decision points. The
  decision support matrix coupled with the decision support template is a result of a staff’s ability to visualize
  the battlefield and identify potential points of friction.
  3-136. As execution of the plan progresses, the staff refines decision point timelines used as the basis for
  the LTIOV. The staff stays alert to the need for recommending changes in the information collection plan
  due to refinements. As the need for change arises, the intelligence staff coordinates with the appropriate staff
  sections to update the products required to refine the information collection plan.
  CUE COLLECTION ASSETS TO OTHER REQUIREMENTS
  3-137. The intelligence and operations staffs at the BCT and Cavalry squadron track the status of collection
  assets, cross-cueing them as needed, and teaming assets together as appropriate to answer PIRs. For example,
  a Soldier reports the absence of normal activity in a normally active market area. In that case, the staff could
  recommend redirecting UASs or other surveillance means to monitor the area for a potential threat.
  ELIMINATE SATISFIED REQUIREMENTS
  3-138. As an operation progresses, the operations and intelligence cell tracks the status of each collection
  task, analyzes SIRs, and monitors tasks for the satisfaction of requirements. The staffs pay particular attention