text: Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
  REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
  6-20. The requirements management system provides the national and Department of Defense imagery
  communities with a uniform automated collection management system. The requirements management
  system manages intelligence requirements for the national and Department of Defense user community to
  support the United States’ imagery and geospatial information system. The National Geospatial-
  Intelligence Agency manages this system and provides end-to-end management of national and strategic
  imagery collection, exploitation, and dissemination. This system enables creation, review, and approval of
  imagery requests. It tasks requirements for collection, production, and exploitation of imagery to
  appropriate locations. The requirements management system determines satisfaction of imagery requests,
  modifies imagery requests based on input from other sources of intelligence, and provides analytical tools
  for users to exploit.
  6-21. The developed messages of the requirements management system are dispatched for approval and
  subsequent collection and exploitation tasking. The system is central to current and future integrated
  imagery and geospatial information management architectures supporting national, military, and civil
  customers.
  6-22. Nominations management services provide the coordination necessary to accept user requirements
  for new information. These services aggregate, assign, and prioritize these user requirements. Nominations
  management services also track requirement satisfaction from the users.
  NATIONAL SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS PROCESS
  6-23. The national signals intelligence requirements process (NSRP) is an integrated and responsive
  system of the policies, procedures, and technology used by the intelligence community to manage requests
  for national-level signals intelligence products and services. The NSRP replaced the previous system called
  the national signals intelligence requirement system.
  6-24. The NSRP establishes an end-to-end cryptologic mission management tracking system using
  information needs. Collectors of signals intelligence satisfy tactical through national consumer information
  needs based on NSRP guidance. The NSRP improves the consumer’s ability to communicate with the
  collector by adding focus and creating a mechanism for accountability and feedback.
  6-25. Information needs are used in NSRP to relay the collection requirements to signals intelligence
  collectors and systems. Users prioritize and classify information needs according to standardized time
  categories. Priorities for research information needs involve limited efforts and only exist for a set time
  using existing data (no new collection is required). Limited duration information needs require collection
  and production over a period of up to 90 days. Standing information needs require sustained collection over
  periods exceeding 90 days and up to 2 years.
  6-26. Information needs are further prioritized based on how quickly the signals intelligence community
  must react to the request for collection by identifying—
  * Routine information needs that require action in 30 or more days.
  * Time sensitive information needs that require actions in 4 to 29 days after submission.
  * Time critical information needs that require actions in the first three days after submission.
  6-27. Requests for national signals intelligence collection must be sponsored at the national level, validated
  by the intelligence community, and prioritized among all the other competing requirements.
  GUIDELINES FOR ACCESSING NATIONAL RESOURCES FOR INFORMATION
  6-28. Depending upon local procedures and systems available, the Army intelligence officer may use
  various means to submit a request for information. The bulleted guidelines in this paragraph help access
  national-level resources to answer the request for information—
  * Know the PIRs and identify gaps that exist in the intelligence database and products.
  * Know what collection assets are available from supporting and supported forces.
  * Understand the timeline for preplanned and dynamic collection requests for particular assets.