text: Integrating the Intelligence Warfighting Function
  SECTION V – INTELLIGENCE AND THE INTEGRATING PROCESSES
  3-27. An integrating process consists of a series of steps that incorporate multiple disciplines to achieve a
  specific end. Integrating processes begin in planning and continue during preparation and execution.
  Commanders and staffs use the integrating processes to synchronize specific functions throughout the
  operations process. The intelligence staff supports the integrating processes by providing detailed and
  relevant all-source intelligence on the various aspects of the threat, terrain and weather, civil considerations,
  and other significant aspects of the OE. (See ADP 5-0 for doctrine on the integrating processes.)
  3-28. Key integrating processes include—
  ⚫ IPOE.
  ⚫ Information collection.
  ⚫ Targeting.
  ⚫ Risk management.
  ⚫ Knowledge management.
  Note. IPOE is not discussed in this section. See paragraphs 3-15 through 3-17 for a discussion of
  the importance of the entire staff’s collaborative involvement, see paragraphs 3-25 and 3-26 for a
  discussion of IPOE in the context of the MDMP, and see paragraphs 5-42 through 5-61 for a
  detailed discussion of IPOE in the context of the intelligence staff.
  INFORMATION COLLECTION
  Information collection is an activity that synchronizes and integrates the planning and employment of
  sensors and assets as well as the processing, exploitation, and dissemination systems in direct support of current
  and future operations (FM 3-55). FM 3-55 discusses information collection capabilities, including human or
  automated sensors and assets directed to collect information that enables better decision making and expands
  an understanding of the OE.
  Information collection is an integrated operations and intelligence function (see figure 3-4 on
  page 3-16). Collection management drives information collection. Therefore, collection management teams
  must understand information collection, as well as the art of effectively integrating collection management
  into information collection and the operations process.
  Information collection provides commanders and staffs with detailed and timely intelligence, which
  assists them in gaining situational understanding of the threat and OE. Commanders and staffs accomplish
  situational understanding by answering intelligence requirements in time and space and identifying any
  threats to mission accomplishment. The intelligence staff provides commanders with predictive assessments
  (accounting for the domains and dimensions, as illustrated in figures 2-5 and 2-6 on pages 2-18 and 2-20,
  respectively) of the enemy, terrain and weather, civil considerations, and other significant aspects of the OE.
  (See FM 3-55 and ATP 2-01 for doctrine on information collection.)
  Note. The intelligence warfighting function’s contributions to information collection include
  collection management and intelligence operations. However, intelligence PED and intelligence
  analysis are integral to information collection.