text: Chapter 1
  ⚫ Provide intelligence support to targeting (IWFT 2.4) entails providing the commander with
  information and intelligence to support targeting to achieve lethal and nonlethal effects. This
  task includes the following subtasks:
  ▪ Provide intelligence support to target development (IWFT 2.4.1).
  ▪ Provide intelligence support to target detection (IWFT 2.4.2).
  ▪ Provide intelligence support to combat assessment (IWFT 2.4.3).
  THE INTELLIGENCE PROCESS
  1-25. Army units and organizations use the intelligence process to integrate intelligence support and provide
  the commander and staff the intelligence needed to facilitate situational understanding, effectively make
  decisions, and exercise C2. As a key fundamental, it is important to understand both the joint and Army
  intelligence processes.
  1-26. The joint intelligence process provides the basis for common terminology. (See JP 2-0.) It consists of
  six interrelated categories of intelligence operations (planning and direction, collection, processing and
  exploitation, analysis and production, dissemination and integration, and evaluation and feedback). The
  Army intelligence process consists of four steps (plan and direct, collect and process, produce, and
  disseminate and integrate) and five continuing activities (synchronize, conduct intelligence operations,
  perform PED, analyze, and assess). (See figure 1-1.)
  1-27. The Army intelligence process steps are very similar to the joint process interrelated categories;
  however, due to the unique characteristics of Army operations, the Army intelligence process steps differ in
  some important but subtle ways. Some of the differences stem from J-2 authorities and responsibilities not
  tasked to G-2/S-2s. Despite these differences, the steps and continuing activities of the Army process account
  for each of the categories of the joint process.
  Figure 1-1. The joint and Army intelligence processes
  1-28. The Army views the intelligence process as a model and common framework to guide Army
  professionals in their thoughts, discussions, plans, and assessments about intelligence. When applying the
  intelligence process, Army intelligence professionals must consider each domain and dimension of the OE
  to properly account for threat capabilities and plan for information collection. The Army intelligence process
  leverages all sources of information and expertise, including the IC and nonintelligence entities (through the
  intelligence enterprise) to provide situational awareness to the commander and staff. The intelligence
  warfighting function uses the intelligence process as a synchronization and integration tool to ensure the right
  information and intelligence get to the right user at the right time in the right format without inundating users.