text: Chapter 5
  effect on the target. During the deliver function, the collection management team cues collectors to continue
  tracking targets during its engagement. Preplanned or cued BDA collection and reporting assist in
  determining if the engagement produced the desired effects; if not, continued tracking supports immediate
  reengagement. (See ATP 2-01, ATP 2-01.3, and ATP 2-33.4.)
  ASSESS
  5-76. Intelligence supports the assessment function by determining if targeting actions have met the desired
  effects and if reattack is necessary to perform essential fires tasks and achieve the commander’s intent for
  fires. Intelligence support to combat assessment relates to specific targets by completing physical damage
  assessments and functional damage assessments. During the assess function, the collection management team
  continuously assesses the information collection effort and compares ongoing actions to the collection
  management plan and the original intent. As operations progress and the situation deviates from the plan, it
  is important to ensure information collection supports all requirements. If the staff’s assessment reveals that
  some requirements are not answered, the collection management team must reevaluate the collection
  management plan. Then the team and staff must provide input on adjustments to the collection effort,
  retasking, or the development of new tasks. The collection management team and current operations track
  the situation relative to those requirements to determine the completion of the collection task, the
  effectiveness of targeting and resulting effects on the target, continued synchronization with other operations
  or emerging collection opportunities, and most critically, the requirements for target reattack, if required.
  5-77. The assess function is nested in the overall continuous assessment of operations within the operations
  and intelligence processes. Assessments are directly connected to the commander’s decisions throughout the
  conduct of operations. Planning for assessment identifies key aspects of the operation that the commander
  directs be closely monitored and identifies where the commander wants to make the decisions. Intelligence
  has a major role in assessments.
  5-78. The assess function is performed through combat assessment—the determination of the overall
  effectiveness of force employment during military operations (JP 3-60). Operational assessments are
  normally conducted only at echelons above brigade. Combat assessment is composed of three related
  elements: BDA, munitions effectiveness assessment, and reattack recommendations.
  PROVIDE INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT TO INFORMATION
  ADVANTAGE
  5-79. Chapter 2 discusses the OE dimensions; human, information, and physical advantages; and positions
  of relative advantage in accordance with FM 3-0. Initially, commanders and staffs should maintain a balanced
  outlook and approach to reaching human, information, and physical advantages. While not entirely new in
  execution, the recent doctrinal articulation of identifying and reaching advantages within and across
  dimensions can be somewhat complex. For example, most information advantages result from human and
  physical advantages, and several considerations to apply lethal and nonlethal means to reach a targeting effect
  span across all three dimensions. Additionally, most information advantages result from human and physical
  factors that are activities intrinsic to Army operations.
  5-80. In many instances, especially during competition and crisis, commanders and staffs must understand
  many relevant aspects of the OE, including friendly and enemy capabilities and factors across the domains
  and dimensions, to conduct operations and activities to reach an information advantage. Additionally,
  commanders and staffs must understand and appreciate the complex interrelationship between the human,
  information, and physical dimensions from a friendly, threat, and other actors’ perspective. Units and
  intelligence organizations should leverage the Army Cyber Command G-2 and the Cyber Military
  Intelligence Group, the JFC information planning cell, and the Deputy Director for Global Operations for
  assistance in developing information advantage-specific support requirements.
  5-81. Intelligence support to information advantage includes the following:
  ⚫ Support to understanding the OE, including the domains and dimensions.
  ⚫ Understanding threat information warfare capabilities and ongoing activities so friendly forces
  can preempt with their own messaging.