text: Intelligence Staff Support
  PROVIDE INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT TO TARGETING
  5-64. Commanders and staffs need timely, accurate, relevant, and predictive intelligence to support the
  targeting effort, which includes the selection, prioritization, execution, and assessment of targets. Therefore,
  the intelligence support to targeting effort must be resourced, carefully planned, and supported by a large
  portion of the intelligence architecture. Intelligence support to targeting occurs across most of the intelligence
  warfighting function. While all intelligence disciplines and complementary capabilities support targeting, the
  effort is ultimately focused by the close collaboration between the all-source intelligence analysis element
  (whether dedicated to targeting or ad hoc), the collection management element, and various targeting and
  fires elements, including the target development working group, if applicable. Certain staff elements,
  including the USAF SWO, CEMA officer, and space operations officer, also have an important role.
  Intelligence support to targeting includes support to planning (target development), identifying (target
  detection), and assessing the effect of those operations (combat assessment).
  5-65. Characteristics that best describe the intelligence support to targeting effort include deliberate
  planning, collaboration across intelligence enterprise echelons, and precise intelligence to target threat
  capabilities at the right time and place to open windows of opportunity to achieve positions of relative
  advantage. Unfortunately, providing precise intelligence is challenging because threats, especially peer
  threats, make it difficult to collect on and analyze threat systems. Intelligence analysis to predict threat COAs
  (considering terrain and weather effects), provide intelligence specific to a location and time, and accurately
  assess the employment of capabilities is difficult. Intelligence support to targeting includes tracking highly
  mobile targets and simultaneously engaging targets, including targets in complex terrain (such as
  subterranean and urban areas and jungle and mountainous terrain) and targets across multiple domains and
  dimensions (for example, targeting threat information systems).
  5-66. The intelligence warfighting function provides support during D3A—from developing plans through
  the MDMP and executing the operation after the MDMP. The targeting process is continuous and so is
  intelligence support to targeting. Just like IPOE, intelligence support to targeting is based on the data,
  information, and intelligence that result from planning, establishing, and revising the intelligence
  architecture; conducting pre-mission analysis of the OE; and leveraging data, information, and intelligence.
  While not all-inclusive, figure 5-8 illustrates intelligence support to targeting before receipt of mission and
  during and after the MDMP.
  Figure 5-8. Intelligence support to targeting over time