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  ⚫ Training. Intelligence leaders inform the commander and staff of intelligence PED capabilities
  and limitations. Facilitating the integration of intelligence PED activities requires intelligence
  leaders to train the intelligence unit and intelligence PED system operators, analysts, and
  maintainers.
  ⚫ Sustainment. Intelligence PED capabilities can pose a significant maintenance and logistics
  challenge to the intelligence unit. Reducing these challenges requires the intelligence unit to
  conduct thorough planning and coordination.
  SECTION IV – THE INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE
  1-115. The intelligence architecture is the compilation of all relevant intelligence and communications
  capabilities, data repositories, organizations, supporting capabilities, and personnel necessary to ensure the
  successful execution of the intelligence process. This architecture enables intelligence activities and
  intelligence operations, including leveraging the intelligence enterprise, that in turn supports operations. At
  the most basic level, the intelligence architecture connects the many different all-source, single-source, and
  PED capabilities (which include people, systems, technology, mission management, and technical control,
  among other aspects) across a unit’s AO and to higher, lower, and adjacent headquarters and units. The
  intelligence architecture depends highly on both specialized intelligence communications and the standard
  communications network.
  1-116. To establish an effective intelligence architecture, it is important to understand its key aspects and
  limitations:
  ⚫ The commander and staff must adequately resource the intelligence architecture. This includes
  sufficient network capability (for example, bandwidth) and access. Network access and effective
  unit communications are especially critical.
  ⚫ All intelligence support is meaningless without communications, which should be planned using
  a primary, alternate, contingency, and emergency (PACE) plan unique to echelon and theater.
  ⚫ There are almost always more requirements for intelligence collection than there are capabilities
  and systems.
  ⚫ All-source intelligence analysis forms the central portion of the analytical backbone of the
  intelligence architecture.
  ⚫ The PED structure is an important component of the intelligence architecture. Processing is
  inherent within all intelligence collection.
  ⚫ MI unit C2, technical channels, and technical control are important parts of the intelligence
  architecture.
  ⚫ Each echelon has unique challenges based on the strategic context, operation, threat, situation,
  and specific mission. The threat always attempts to counter or minimize friendly intelligence
  collection.
  ⚫ Intelligence capabilities and specific collectors face challenges such as communications,
  technical parameters, weather, terrain effects, survivability, sophisticated equipment, and
  intelligence and electronic warfare (IEW) maintenance and other logistics support.
  ⚫ The intelligence architecture must account for any augmentation or task organization of
  additional intelligence capabilities.
  1-117. Establishing and maintaining the intelligence architecture requires well-trained, highly proficient
  intelligence professionals due to the highly technical nature of portions of the architecture. At any point in
  time, different MI units, different echelons, and the different Components (Active Component, United States
  Army Reserve [USAR], and the Army National Guard [ARNG]) are fielded with different intelligence
  systems, different versions of the same intelligence system, or with different versions of software on the
  intelligence systems.
  Note. When necessary, for the sake of relevance, usefulness, and content comprehensibility, this
  publication discusses specific intelligence systems, regardless of their impending replacement
  before this publication’s next revision.