text: Chapter 4
  must understand the system of apportionment and allocation to determine what is available and what can be
  requested by analyzing the higher headquarters order, reviewing the various scheduling or tracking
  mechanisms, and collaborating across echelons.
  4-167. Soldiers within the intelligence cell must know and addressthe practical capabilities and limitations
  of BCT (and available external to the BCT) information collection assets and the capability of subordinates
  to provide information. Capability and limitation issues (although not inclusive) include—
  (cid:122) Range (duration and distance) to provide require target coverage.
  (cid:122) Day and night effectiveness through available optic and thermal crossover.
  (cid:122) Technical characteristics to see/operate through fog or other obscurant/hostile electromagnetic
  warfare (EW).
  (cid:122) Reporting timeliness regarding established reporting criteria for each collection asset.
  (cid:122) Geolocation accuracy (reliability and precision).
  (cid:122) Durability to move across restricted terrain, launch in high winds or limited visibility.
  (cid:122) Ability to obtain and report required enemy activity.
  (cid:122) Sustainability requirements for extended duration operations (fuel capacity/maintenance issues).
  (cid:122) Vulnerability to enemy in route and in the target area.
  (cid:122) Performance history to meet the commander’s requirements (responsiveness/reliability/accuracy).
  4-168. The intelligence cell must know the collection capabilities requiring confirmation, especially if
  targeting is an issue. For example, target selection standards may require reliance on sensors capable of
  providing targeting accuracy, such as the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System, Joint Surveillance
  Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS), or an unmanned aircraft system (UAS). If experience shows that the
  collection capability is often unavailable because of local weather patterns, the intelligence cell considers this
  in evaluating the information collection asset’s performance history, perhaps leading to the selection of an
  alternate information collection asset.
  Information Collection and the Targeting Process
  4-169. The information collection plan guides reconnaissance and security forces to answer the CCIRs, to
  include those high-payoff targets (HPTs) designated as priority intelligence requirements. Effective planning
  requirements and assessing collection focuses information collection activities on obtaining the information
  required by the BCT commander and staff to influence targeting decisions and the scheme of fires.
  Determining information requirements is necessary for the early identification of information gaps.
  4-170. The targeting process is comprised of four basic steps: decide, detect, deliver, and assess. The decide
  step sets priorities for information collection and scheme of fires during detect and deliver steps (see
  chapter4). The decide step draws heavily on thecommander’s intent and concept of operations and a detailed
  IPB with continuous assessment. Targeting, nested within the operations process, is an effective method for
  matching friendly force capabilities against enemy targets.
  4-171. Information collection priorities must be set for each phase or critical event of an operation. Priorities
  depicted during targeting value analysis using visual products and matrixes communicate the importance of
  specific targets to the enemy’s COA and those targets that, if destroyed, would contribute favorably to the
  friendly COA. (See FM 3-09 and ATP 2-19.4 for additional information.)
  TARGETING
  4-172. Targetingis the process of selecting and prioritizing targets and matching the appropriate response
  to them,considering operational requirements and capabilities (JP 3-0). Targeting personnel within the BCT
  identify critical target subsets that, when successfully acquired and attacked, significantly diminish enemy
  capabilities. The commander synchronizes combat power to attack and eliminate critical target(s) using the
  most effective system in the right time and place.
  4-173. Targeting is a complex and multidiscipline effort that requires coordinated interaction among many
  command and staff elements within and external to the BCT. The functional and integrating cell members
  (see paragraph 4-235) within theBCT necessary for effective collaboration are represented in the targeting