text: Intelligence Warfighting Function Tasks
  LEVERAGE DATA, INFORMATION, AND INTELLIGENCE (2.2.2)
  B-33. To leverage data, information, and intelligence to support operations, intelligence professionals must
  understand the relationship between data, information, and intelligence for situational awareness, situational
  understanding, and knowledge. Commanders require intelligence about the threat and other aspects of the
  OE before and during operations—to effectively accomplish their missions—and after operations—to
  continuously assess the OE and determine if subsequent operations may be imminent.
  B-34. Data is, in the context of decision making, unprocessed observations detected by a collector of any
  kind (human, mechanical, or electronic) (ADP 6-0). After data is collected and assigned meaning, it becomes
  information—in the context of decision making, data that has been organized and processed in order to
  provide context for further analysis (ADP 6-0). Information is obtained through information collection and
  by using already available information, which units can access through intelligence reach, research, data
  mining, databases, academic studies, intelligence archives, and PAI. The information and intelligence
  obtained can be refined into specific knowledge for the conduct of operations.
  B-35. Leverage data, information, and intelligence consists of three tasks:
  ⚫ Create and maintain intelligence databases.
  ⚫ Conduct intelligence reach.
  ⚫ Conduct intelligence collaboration.
  Note. When leveraging formal national-level intelligence, it is important to understand that these
  products adhere to analytic intelligence standards and tradecraft principles outlined in the
  Intelligence Community Directive 203.
  Create and Maintain Intelligence Databases (2.2.2.1)
  B-36. This task entails creating and maintaining unclassified and classified databases to establish
  interoperable and collaborative environments for Army forces, joint forces, national agencies, and
  multinational organizations. This task also facilitates intelligence analysis, reporting, production,
  dissemination, sustainment, and intelligence reach. It also includes the requirements for formatting and
  standardization, indexing and correlation, normalization, storage, security protocols, and associated
  applications. (As technology improves the integration of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and
  potential autonomous data processing, MI analysts will have greater access to the volume of data/data sets at
  speeds and durations to improve assessments, enabling decision making.) The following must be addressed
  in database development, management, and maintenance:
  ⚫ Data sources.
  ⚫ Information redundancy.
  ⚫ Import and export standards.
  ⚫ Data management and standards (maintaining data literacy).
  ⚫ Update and backup procedures.
  ⚫ Data mining, query, and search protocols (executing data sets).
  Conduct Intelligence Reach (2.2.2.2)
  B-37. Intelligence obtained through intelligence reach—the activity by which intelligence organizations
  proactively and rapidly access information from, receive support from, and conduct direct collaboration and
  information sharing with other units and agencies, both within and outside the area of operations,
  unconstrained by geographic proximity, echelon, or command (ADP 2-0)—assists the staff in planning and
  preparing for operations and answering intelligence requirements without the need for the information to pass
  through a formal hierarchy. The staff can perform the following steps to ensure the optimal use, operability,
  and effectiveness of intelligence reach:
  ⚫ Establish data exchange methods and procedures.
  ⚫ Establish electronic message transfer procedures.