text: Intelligence at and Across Echelons
  COMPETITION
  7-41. The theater army is the primary Army organization that plans, prepares, and oversees the execution of
  activities conducted by Army forces during competition and assesses the results of those activities. All theater
  army intelligence efforts during competition are accomplished within a larger national, joint, and coalition
  context. The theater army intelligence effort during competition focuses on the following:
  ⚫ Providing support to set and maintain the theater.
  ⚫ Providing intelligence support to theater security cooperation.
  ⚫ Supporting the execution of the CCDR’s daily operational requirements.
  ⚫ Supporting contingency planning for crisis and armed conflict.
  ⚫ Identifying events that may lead to crisis and armed conflict.
  ⚫ Providing leaders and decision makers with the information necessary for a clear understanding.
  ⚫ Conducting all-source intelligence analysis to support the ASCC or CCDR PIR.
  ⚫ Providing support to force tailoring.
  ⚫ Maintaining situational awareness across the theater.
  ⚫ Providing continual support to target development.
  ⚫ Maintaining the intelligence portion of the COP.
  ⚫ Participating in the joint collection management board, which enables the JFC’s decision making
  on the apportionment and allocation of ISR assets and updating the information collection plan.
  ⚫ Maintaining the CIP.
  ⚫ Serving as the theater army ACE for single-source intelligence, all-source intelligence analysis
  products and databases, and intelligence collection management.
  ⚫ Leveraging the U.S. IC and joint/allied intelligence enterprise and integrating regionally aligned
  forces and global response forces.
  ⚫ Conducting continuous information collection activities and intelligence analysis to provide
  early and accurate warning intelligence.
  7-42. Competition activities enable the joint force to gain positions of relative advantage before combat
  operations. Operations during competition are characterized by actions to protect friendly forces and indicate
  the intent to execute subsequent phases of a planned operation. For this reason, it is critical for the theater
  army G-2, the MIB-T, and other regionally aligned forces to develop intelligence databases (across the
  domains and dimensions) during competition activities.
  7-43. Additionally, the theater army G-2—
  ⚫ Prepares for theater openings, to include planning the RSOI of MI staffs and units on the time-
  phased force and deployment list (TPFDL) to the OPLAN. The theater army G-2 may task other
  staffs or MI units to support the RSOI of subsequent MI units due to the time-intensive and
  detailed nature of RSOI—especially the full integration of MI units into operations and the
  intelligence architecture.
  ⚫ Maintains, updates, and shares all information, including the enemy electromagnetic order of
  battle overlay with deploying units to ensure a common and current understanding of the threat.
  7-44. The theater army G-2 participates in operational planning processes to identify intelligence support
  requirements in order to support theater plans and determine gaps in information and knowledge. This drives
  the development of the information collection plan. The G-2 analyzes the collected data and uses it to refine
  IPOE products. Additionally, the G-2 proposes PIRs for commander approval and identifies HVTs and HPTs
  for G-3 approval. The theater army G-2 conducts collection management with national, joint, and coalition
  partners to ensure adequate coverage of collection assets to meet the theater’s needs.
  7-45. The theater army G-2 builds relationships with partner nations through exercises and exchanges.
  Exercises strengthen relationships with—
  ⚫ The U.S. IC, including the J-2 and combat support agencies (particularly the DIA, National
  Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and National Security Agency), regionally aligned units, and
  units apportioned against an OPLAN.