text: Chapter 2
  produced by the targeting working group and targeting board. The TSM ensures planned activities are
  coordinated and execution is feasible in time and space.
  DETECT
  2-29. Operations officers, at all levels, are responsible for directing the effort to detect HPTs identified in
  the decide function. To identify the specific who, what, when, and how for target acquisition, operations
  officers must work closely with the targeting team. The collection manager is a critical piece of this effort.
  The detect function is planned during the decide function and conducted during the execution of the OPORD.
  2-30. The outcome of success achieves relative advantage in all dimensions, (human, information, and
  physical). It provides for positional, information, capability, and decision advantage. Successful detection
  enables timely and accurate employment of capabilities. The following are outcomes and consequences of
  failure to detect:
  * Enemy prevents friendly forces from achieving tasks and objectives potentially leading to mission
  failure.
  * PIR/information requirements remain unanswered and decision points are affected.
  * The enemy retains critical capabilities to achieve mission success.
  * HPTs are not affected, and friendly objectives remain unaccomplished.
  * May require rapid decision making and synchronization process (RDSP).
  * Increased risk to mission and risk to force.
  2-31. The effective and efficient delivery of capabilities is achieved through a comprehensive collection
  plan. Detect and track targets by the maximum use of all available capabilities to create an effective layered
  collection plan. A collection plan is a systematic scheme to optimize the employment of all available
  collection capabilities and associated processing, exploitation, and dissemination resources to satisfy specific
  information requirements (JP 2-0). The collection manager must focus the collection efforts on approved
  PIRs, targeting intelligence requirements and other information requirements. The collection manager
  considers the availability and capability of all collection assets. The collection manager translates PIR and
  targeting intelligence requirements into indicators and specific information requirements. Dissemination of
  targeting information from collection will be through pre-determined channels and in accordance with unit
  SOPs.
  Information Collection
  2-32. The accurate and timely detection of targets is dependent upon a comprehensive collection plan and
  facilitates effective and efficient employment of capabilities. The collection manager must focus the
  collection efforts on approved PIRs, targeting intelligence requirements and other information requirements.
  The collection manager considers the availability and capability of all collection assets. The collection
  manager translates PIR and targeting intelligence requirements into indicators and specific information
  requirements. Dissemination of targeting information from collection will be through pre-determined
  channels and in accordance with unit SOPs.
  2-33. HPTs must be detected in a timely and accurate manner, and reported in sufficient detail to enable the
  commander, through various lethal and nonlethal capabilities, the ability to produce the desired effects. Clear
  and concise tasks must be given to the reconnaissance units, information collection elements, weapons
  locating radars or any asset that can detect a given target within the information collection plan (Annex L).
  Information collection assets collect information and report back within operations and intelligence or
  targeting channels. Some collection assets provide actual targets, while other assets must have their
  information processed to produce valid targets. Processing, exploitation, and dissemination (PED)
  capabilities play an important role within targeting. The target priorities developed in the decide function are
  used to expedite the processing of targets. As the situation changes during operations the current operations
  or staff, led by the collection management team, assesses collection, and updates the collection management
  plan as needed to meet new requirements. For more information see ATP 2-01.
  2-34. The information collection plan focuses the collection effort to answering PIRs and identifying HPTs.
  To support the detection of HPTs on the battlefield, the targeting cell provides indicators and SIRs to the