text: Integrating the Intelligence Warfighting Function
  3-50. The targeting process provides an effective method for matching friendly force capabilities against
  enemy targets to achieve the commander’s desired effects and objectives. There are two general ways to
  frame the D3A Army targeting methodology:
  ⚫ During planning and the MDMP, the staff uses the targeting methodology as a process to
  assist in product development and visualization. The staff applies the methodology to analyze
  the commander’s guidance to determine the right targets, at the right place, at the right time.
  During the MDMP, the staff can make these decisions and apply the required assets to create
  desired effects. The staff can further discuss the methodology by developing COAs and war-
  gaming them. The staff also applies the methodology to assessment requirements and the
  analysis needed to facilitate future decisions.
  ⚫ As an integrating process during execution, the targeting methodology enables the staff to
  apply targeting products (HPTLs, target selection standards [TSS], attack guidance matrices
  [AGMs], information collection synchronization matrices, and target synchronization matrices)
  to facilitate operations. The staff makes decisions continuously, adjusts detection methods or
  locations, and revises delivery options based on changes to threat COAs.
  RISK MANAGEMENT
  3-51. Risk management is the Army’s primary process for identifying hazards and controlling risks during
  operations. Risk management is the process to identify, assess, and mitigate risks and make decisions that
  balance risk cost with mission benefits (JP 3-0). The chief of protection (or S-3 in units without a protection
  cell), in coordination with the safety officer, integrates risk management into the MDMP. The intelligence
  staff participates in the overall risk management process and integrates risk management into collection
  management when recommending tasks for collection assets. (See ATP 5-19 for risk management doctrine.)
  3-52. Commanders must focus and use intelligence to explicitly understand the lethality of large-scale
  combat operations, preserve their combat power, and mitigate operational risk, when possible, to achieve the
  end state. Using intelligence to see and understand within each domain can reduce risk to the friendly force
  and enhance success in chaotic and high-tempo operations.
  3-53. Intelligence provides the commander the ability to detect adversary activities, predict enemy
  intentions, understand and track enemy capabilities across all domains, inform decisions, and provide realistic
  assessments of operational and tactical risks. During situation development, analysts determine the
  significance of collected information and its significance relative to predicted threat COAs. Through
  predictive analysis, the staff templates threat activity or trends that present opportunities or risks to the
  friendly force. This support assists the commander and staff in deciding when and where to concentrate
  sufficient combat power to defeat the threat while mitigating risks.
  KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
  3-54. Knowledge management is the process of enabling knowledge flow to enhance shared understanding,
  learning, and decision making (ADP 6-0). The purpose of knowledge management is aligning people,
  process, and tools within the organizational structure and culture to achieve a shared understanding. This
  alignment improves collaboration and interaction between leaders and subordinates and information sharing
  with subordinate units, higher-echelon headquarters, and unified action partners. (See ATP 6-01.1 for
  knowledge management doctrine.)
  3-55. The intelligence staff participates in both the unit’s overall knowledge management effort and its own
  staff knowledge management effort. Managing knowledge within the unit and the intelligence staff is critical
  to providing effective intelligence support. Important aspects of knowledge management include—
  ⚫ Using the intelligence process with fundamentally sound procedures to ensure the right
  intelligence gets to the right users at the right time in a useable format, and the intelligence is
  integrated into operations, to include targeting, as appropriate.
  ⚫ Ensuring the right focus and fundamentally sound procedures are used to avoid information
  overload and inundating the commander and staff with too much information and intelligence.