text: Intelligence at and Across Echelons
  7-101. The division collection manager orchestrates the information collection effort. The collection
  manager generates the requirements necessary to support division operations. The division uses joint systems,
  also used by the corps, to request theater or national ISR support. Those requests are validated at higher
  echelons. The collection manager, working in conjunction with the G-3, generates taskings for organic and
  allocated information collection systems and those units assigned a reconnaissance or security mission.
  7-102. The division intelligence staff supports targeting and combat assessment to identify and exploit
  enemy vulnerabilities. This enables commander’s decision making to support additional shaping activities,
  initiating armed conflict, or shifting the main effort.
  7-103. The division G-2 and intelligence staff synchronize information advantage activities, information
  collection, and combat assessment in a fluid and complex environment characterized by multiple BCT attacks,
  supporting combat aviation brigade operations, joint fires, and operations in deep, close, and rear areas. This
  synchronization allows the staff to identify windows of opportunities. Synchronization across the staff ties
  information collection to commander decision points with Army aviation and joint fires linked to the TAI.
  7-104. Fleeting windows of opportunity are addressed by current operations within division CPs.
  Intelligence also supports future operations by identifying changes in the situation beyond the current
  operations that necessitate changes to the plan.
  SECTION VII – BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM
  7-105. A BCT is the Army’s primary combined arms, close-combat force. BCTs maneuver against, close
  with, and destroy the enemy; conduct offensive, defensive, and stability operations; and are the principal
  ground maneuver units of a division. All BCTs include the following capabilities:
  ⚫ Maneuver. ⚫ Intelligence.
  ⚫ Fires. ⚫ Medical.
  ⚫ Reconnaissance. ⚫ Signal.
  ⚫ Sustainment. ⚫ Engineer.
  7-106. The organizational flexibility inherent within the BCT allows it to function across the range of
  military operations; armored BCTs have combined arms battalions, and infantry and Stryker BCTs have
  infantry battalions.
  7-107. Intelligence operations are normally weighted to support the main effort. The BCT intelligence
  structure has the flexibility to tailor its capabilities to meet the requirements of various types of operations
  and adapt to changing operational needs during execution. For each operation, the commander and staff
  create and refine requirements and develop a scheme of information collection that positions MI and
  maneuver collection assets where they can best satisfy those requirements. (See ATP 2-19.4.)
  7-108. BCT intelligence assets from the MI company are employed to support C2 by meeting the BCT
  commander’s information collection tasks. The BCT staff develops a scheme of information collection that
  employs maneuver and MI units based on the BCT’s mission, PIRs, concept of operations, and the
  commander’s intent. This scheme integrates intelligence operations with the BCT’s overall operation. The
  MI company positions collection assets to—
  ⚫ Satisfy SIRs.
  ⚫ Expose threat vulnerabilities.
  ⚫ Monitor key locations.
  ⚫ Detect targets.
  ⚫ Collect information for the assessment of lethal and nonlethal effects.
  ⚫ Identify opportunities as they arise.