text: Chapter 5
  DECIDE
  5-67. During the MDMP, targeting becomes more focused based on the commander’s guidance and intent.
  Once the commander determines objectives, the intelligence staff must continuously review them with
  respect to the threat and the changing situation to ensure they remain relevant to the commander’s intent.
  Intelligence provides the commander with an understanding of the threat in terms of probable intent,
  objectives, strengths, vulnerabilities, and COAs (at a minimum, most likely and most dangerous).
  Additionally, intelligence analysts recommend objectives based on enemy capabilities, vulnerabilities,
  centers of gravity, and likely COAs.
  5-68. The decide function of the targeting methodology provides the overall focus and sets priorities for
  information collection and attack planning. Decide, the most important targeting function, requires close
  interaction between the intelligence, plans, operations, CEMA, fire support, space, and legal. The intelligence
  staff analyzes threat systems and their components to make a recommendation for generating the
  commander’s intended effect on the target, although the fire support officer, in collaboration with the G-3/S-
  3, makes the final decision. The intelligence input is based primarily on the AGM, determining the most
  effective friendly means available to produce the commander’s desired effect on the target. The decide
  function draws heavily on the staff’s knowledge of the threat, a detailed IPOE (which occurs simultaneously),
  and a continuous assessment of the situation. Targeting priorities are addressed for each phase or critical
  event of an operation.
  5-69. During the targeting meeting, the collection management team advises the targeting working group on
  the ability of available collection systems to acquire and identify HPTs, track HPTs, and support BDA on
  HPTs. The team assists the working group, as needed, in revising the intelligence architecture to disseminate
  target-related intelligence to attack systems in near real time. The targeting working group further refines
  event templates and associated event matrices (developed during IPOE) into targeting matrices, which
  provide the level of detail the collection management team requires to focus information collection to support
  targeting. The team uses targeting matrices, IPOE products, and TSS to divide HPTs into collection functions
  (acquire and identify, track, and support BDA), SIRs, NAIs and TAIs, and specific collection tasks. (See
  figure 5-9.) (See ATP 2-01, ATP 2-01.3, and ATP 2-33.4.)
  Figure 5-9. High-payoff target to specific information requirements