text: Chapter 7
  7-72. Corps, divisions, and BCTs prepare for movement into theater and accomplishing RSOI. Corps and
  divisions integrate their ARNG and USAR main CP operational detachments and fully integrate their
  activities into the theater army G-2 and MIB-T battle rhythm to participate in analysis and battle update
  briefs. The main CP operational detachments establish reach operations to maintain continuity and provide
  intelligence updates while the corps, division, and BCT headquarters are in movement. Corps, divisions, and
  BCTs send advanced parties forward, including G-2/S-2 representatives. These advanced parties consider the
  following (not all-inclusive):
  ⚫ Understanding the threat (collaborating with theater, partners, allies, and host-nation forces).
  ⚫ MI force tailoring.
  ⚫ Information collection and analysis integration.
  ⚫ Processes and systems.
  ⚫ SOP review and update.
  ARMED CONFLICT
  7-73. The corps G-2 and intelligence staff have important roles in the planning and execution of various
  operations and decisive tasks such as forcible entry operations, corps and/or subordinate division attacks,
  joint suppression of enemy air defense, deep operations, and corps-level gap crossings.
  7-74. The corps staff, led by the corps intelligence cell, performs IPOE to support all operational planning.
  As a result of IPOE, the staff produces a range of intelligence products, including the enemy situation
  template and the event template and its associated event matrix. These products assist in accomplishing tasks,
  including but not limited to sharing information across the staff, driving certain aspects of the corps war
  game, and generating requirements to drive the information collection effort. The corps collection manager
  uses IPOE products to develop and then submit requirements to higher headquarters through joint systems
  for validation at the theater level. Additionally, the collection manager works in conjunction with the G-3 to
  generate taskings for assigned or attached collection assets, Army aviation, and maneuver formations
  responsible for reconnaissance and security operations.
  7-75. The corps establishes procedures to suballocate theater information collection capabilities to the division
  level. Additionally, the corps task-organizes the E-MIB to support the corps and subordinate commanders. The
  corps also integrates nonstandard or quick reaction capabilities into intelligence units or staffs.
  7-76. The corps can conduct expeditionary PED with assets from the E-MIB and the operational intelligence
  ground station within the corps G-2. In most situations, the corps requires intelligence reach support for PED,
  but the expeditionary capability ensures some level of support when there is no network connectivity in either
  an austere or degraded/denied environment.
  7-77. Synchronizing the corps analytical effort with information collection and intelligence operations is
  critical in providing the corps commander with the timely and accurate intelligence required to make
  decisions regarding armed conflict. The sheer magnitude of large-scale combat operations necessitates
  precise timing. Triggers to initiate armed conflict require precise and detailed intelligence reporting and
  assessments.
  7-78. Shaping OEs by the corps sets conditions for division operations. Shaping OEs through lethal and
  nonlethal effects requires a thorough understanding of threat systems and critical vulnerabilities. The corps
  G-2 and intelligence staff ensure the information collection effort—
  ⚫ Generates targetable data on key enemy systems to support shaping OEs.
  ⚫ Supports combat assessment that provides the commander with the necessary intelligence to
  decide if conditions have been met to initiate armed conflict.
  7-79. An example of synchronization at the corps level is coordination for joint ISR capabilities (with
  associated PED) to detect a moving enemy force (via SIGINT or a moving target indicator) and support the
  analytic assessment that triggers a commander’s decision point. In turn, the decision point is synchronized
  with operations and fires (for example, joint fires or Army aviation) linked to a TAI.