text: Intelligence Staff Support
  5-12. The intelligence architecture consists of more than a unit’s organic collection capabilities, systems,
  and personnel. It also includes all elements of the intelligence network and associated communications
  architectures (including the PACE communications plan) to enable intelligence operations and support to
  mission requirements. (See FM 6-02 for doctrine on PACE planning.)
  PLANNING
  5-13. Planning the intelligence architecture is inseparable from long-range planning for future intelligence
  operations. The intelligence staff can neither perform long-range planning without carefully considering the
  intelligence architecture nor plan an intelligence architecture without carefully considering long-range
  planning. The intelligence architecture is connected directly to the types and methods of intelligence support
  necessary for future operational plans. This planning is roughly equivalent to developing a blueprint for a
  house that is based on a larger plan to build a housing area in that area. The unit cannot count on using
  intelligence capabilities during an operation if those capabilities are not accounted for in the intelligence
  architecture and supported by a larger communications plan. Once the intelligence architecture is in place
  and the unit is conducting operations, periodic changes are necessary; these changes are called revisions.
  5-14. When developing the intelligence architecture, the intelligence staff collaborates with the MI unit staff
  to consider the personnel, organizations, systems, and procedures necessary for developing intelligence,
  including those required for intelligence operations. It is critical for the intelligence staff to collaborate with
  the commander and staff as early as possible and throughout planning to ensure the intelligence architecture
  is adequately planned and established as soon as possible.
  5-15. The G-2/S-2 and intelligence staff also ensure the higher-headquarters linkage to the unit and
  subordinate unit requirements are adequately integrated into their intelligence architecture to enable effective
  information collection, PED, and analysis and production to support mission requirements. This ensures the
  intelligence architecture supports the necessary operational and technical connections between collection
  assets, control elements, PED capabilities, analytical cells, and various CPs to enable an effective information
  flow of intelligence to commanders and staffs and access (both inward and outward) across the intelligence
  enterprise. The intelligence architecture must also account for all complementary capabilities and
  intelligence-related missions and operations employed by the unit.
  ARCHITECTURE DETAILS
  5-16. The intelligence staff portrays the intelligence architecture in a series of planning products that map
  the operational and technical aspects of the interoperability between the many components of the architecture.
  The planning products include but are not limited to the different—
  ⚫ Intelligence capabilities. Chapter 7 provides a list of organic and supporting general intelligence
  collection and all-source intelligence capabilities by echelon; each general intelligence collection
  capability comprises specific collection assets (platforms and collectors) with specific technical
  collection capabilities and associated PED. The intelligence staff must compile a list of all
  appropriate general intelligence capabilities that are part of the architecture, which must address
  bandwidth requirements, preparing for operations, collecting the required information, and the
  associated PED. The intelligence staff must then assess all applicable general intelligence
  capabilities to list the specific intelligence capabilities required for the architecture.
  ⚫ Communications means. Collection assets operate through many different communications
  means, which include formal message traffic, databases, product libraries, chat rooms,
  intelligence dissemination systems, and various voice methods.
  ⚫ Technical networks. Technical networks are those information management and information
  system connections that enable resource and information sharing. Intelligence architecture
  products capture not only networks and their technical specifications but also how architecture
  elements relate and interoperate with each other. Intelligence personnel disseminate and access
  information and intelligence on several networks, including NIPRNET, SIPRNET, JWICS,
  coalition networks, and intelligence broadcast systems.
  ⚫ Tactical considerations. The intelligence architecture should address likely tactical
  considerations such as mission tasks, technical control means, tipping and cueing, IEW and other
  maintenance, security measures, and medical support.