text: Information Collection Foundations
  Note: In specific cases, regulatory authority is granted to national and Department of Defense
  intelligence agencies for intelligence discipline collection and is passed through technical control
  channels.
  Collect and Report Information
  1-14. This task involves collecting and reporting information in response to collection tasks. Collection
  assets collect information and data about the threat, terrain and weather, and civil considerations for a
  particular AO. A successful information collection effort results in the timely collection and reporting of
  relevant and accurate information, which supports the production of intelligence or combat information.
  1-15. As part of the collection plan, elements of all units obtain information and data concerning the threat,
  terrain and weather, and civil considerations in the AO. Well-developed procedures and carefully planned
  flexibility to support emerging targets, changing requirements, and combat assessment is critical. Once
  staffs collect the information, they develop a form for analysts to extract essential information and produce
  intelligence and targeting data. Once Soldiers collect the information, they develop a form for analysis.
  Collected and processed information is provided to the appropriate units, organizations, or agencies for
  analysis or action. This analyzed information forms the foundation of running estimates, targeting data,
  intelligence databases, and intelligence.
  1-16. Collection assets must follow standard operating procedures (SOPs) to ensure staffs tag reports with
  the numbers of the tasks satisfied in the reports. Simultaneously, SOPs ensure assets understand and report
  important but unanticipated information. Collection assets reporting may convey that collection occurred,
  but the unit did not observe any activity satisfying the information collection task, which may be an
  indicator. As a part of reporting, the staff tracks where the collection task originated. This tracking ensures
  the staff provides the collected information to the original requester and to all who need the information.
  Correlating the reporting to the original requirement and evaluating reports is key to effective information
  collection. The staff tracks the progress of each requirement and cross-references incoming reports to
  outstanding requirements.
  Establish a Mission Intelligence Briefing and Debriefing Program
  1-17. The commander establishes, supports, and allocates appropriate resources for a mission briefing and
  debriefing program. The battle updates and after action reviews are separate tasks from the mission briefing
  and debriefing program. The G-2 (S-2) develops a mission intelligence briefing program and
  complementary debriefing program to support the commander’s program.
  INFORMATION COLLECTION ACTIVITIES
  1-18. At the tactical level, commanders use reconnaissance, surveillance, security, and intelligence
  missions or operations to plan, organize, and execute shaping operations that answer the CCIRs and support
  the decisive operation. Figure 1-1 on page 1-4 displays information collection activities.
  1-19. The intelligence and operations staffs work together to collect, process, and analyze information
  about the enemy, other adversaries, climate, weather, terrain, population, and other civil considerations that
  affect operations. Intelligence relies on reconnaissance, security, intelligence operations, and surveillance
  for its data and information. Conversely, without intelligence, commanders and staffs do not know where
  or when to conduct reconnaissance, security, intelligence operations, or surveillance. The usefulness of the
  data collected depends on the processing and exploitation common to these activities.
  1-20. Commanders integrate information collection to form an information collection plan that capitalizes
  on different capabilities. Information collection assets provide data and information. Intelligence is the
  product resulting from the collection, processing, integration, evaluation, analysis, and interpretation of
  available information concerning foreign nations, hostile or potentially hostile forces or elements, or areas
  of actual or potential operations. The term is also applied to the activity that results in the product and to the
  organizations engaged in such activity (JP 2-0). Intelligence informs commanders and staffs where and
  when to look. Reconnaissance, security, intelligence operations, and surveillance are the ways—with the