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  ⚫ Establish unit-specific links for identified forces.
  ⚫ Establish points of contact for the following:
  ▪ Production centers.
  ▪ Combatant command joint intelligence and operations centers.
  ▪ The Defense Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command,
  and its major subordinate commands, such as the National Ground Intelligence Center.
  ▪ Higher MI organizations.
  ⚫ Ensure the intelligence staff has the necessary personnel, training, automated systems,
  bandwidth, and resources to conduct intelligence reach.
  ⚫ Determine information requirements through staff planning.
  ⚫ Develop production requirements for identified intelligence gaps.
  ⚫ Obtain geospatial products for the projected AOI.
  ⚫ Establish and maintain a comprehensive directory of intelligence reach resources before
  deployment and throughout operations. The value of intelligence reach greatly increases as the
  staff develops and maintains ready access to rich information resources. These resources are
  numerous and may include Army, joint, DOD, non-DOD, national, commercial, foreign, and
  university research programs.
  ⚫ Know the types of information that intelligence reach resources can provide. Continuously
  expand the resource directory by identifying new resources.
  ⚫ Use intelligence reach first to fill intelligence gaps and requirements and to answer requests for
  information (RFIs). This technique can preclude unnecessary tasking or risk to limited collection
  assets.
  ⚫ Strive to maintain continuous situational understanding and anticipate intelligence requirements.
  Use intelligence reach to answer these requirements and provide the results to the commander
  and staff for the conduct of operations.
  ⚫ Exchange intelligence reach strategies with other units, allies, and partners.
  ⚫ Present the information retrieved through intelligence reach in a usable form; share the
  information derived from intelligence reach with subordinate, lateral, and higher echelons; and
  ensure follow-on forces have the information as well.
  Conduct Intelligence Collaboration (2.2.2.3)
  B-38. Collaboration is the central principle of conducting analysis across intelligence organizations. Army
  tactical units provide accurate and detailed intelligence about the threat and other relevant aspects of the OE
  (especially those related to Army activities) through the intelligence enterprise, while other intelligence
  organizations provide expertise and access not readily available to the Army at the tactical level. Additionally,
  national-level intelligence organizations provide governance over certain intelligence methods and activities.
  Cooperation can benefit every echelon.
  PERFORM INTELLIGENCE PREPARATION OF THE OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT (2.2.3)
  B-39. Intelligence preparation of the operational environment is the systematic process of analyzing the
  mission variables of enemy, terrain, weather, and civil considerations in an AOI to determine their effect on
  operations. The G-2/S-2 leads the staff effort and prepares for the IPOE process during pre-mission analysis
  of the OE associated with force generation and incorporated into the Army design methodology. During this
  task, the intelligence staff creates data files on specific OEs based on an evaluation of the information and
  intelligence related to the operational variables identified. IPOE is a continuous staff planning activity
  undertaken by the entire staff. The staff aims to understand the OE and the options it presents to friendly and
  threat forces. (See ATP 2-01.3.) Perform IPOE consists of four tasks:
  ⚫ Define the OE.
  ⚫ Describe environmental effects on operations.
  ⚫ Evaluate the threat.
  ⚫ Determine threat courses of action (COAs).