text: Chapter 3
  PERSONNEL RECOVERY SUPPORT
  3-6. Personnel recovery support consists of the staff activities and unit capabilities focused on collecting
  information to recover and return their own personnel—whether Soldier, Army civilian, selected
  Department of Defense contractors, or other personnel as determined by the Secretary of Defense—who are
  isolated, missing, detained, or captured in an area of operations (AO). This support also includes
  developing detailed analysis, detailed products, and running estimates to defense support of civil authorities
  undertaken to recover isolated, missing, detained, or captured personnel.
  THE MDMP AND INFORMATION COLLECTION PLANNING
  3-7. Information collection planning is in the military decisionmaking process (MDMP) and depends
  extensively on all staff members thoroughly completing the IPB process. Information collection planning
  starts with receipt of the mission (which could be a warning order). Information collection directly supports
  the development of intelligence and operations products used throughout the decisionmaking process.
  Within the MDMP, the staff must prepare certain products used during the plan and prepare activities of the
  operations process.
  3-8. Information collection activities are continuous, collaborative, and interactive. Several of the outputs
  from the MDMP require the collaboration of the staff, especially the intelligence and operations staffs. The
  information collection plan is not developed without constant coordination among the entire staff. At every
  step in the MDMP, the intelligence staff must rely on input from the entire staff and cooperate with the
  operations staff to develop information collection products that support the commander’s intent and
  maximize collection efficiency for each course of action under consideration. Information collection
  planning inputs and outputs during the MDMP are highlighted in paragraphs 3-9 through 3-56. (See
  ADRP 5-0 for more information on the MDMP.)
  RECEIPT OF MISSION
  3-9. Before receipt of the mission, the intelligence staff develops intelligence knowledge. In addition to
  the knowledge already available, the intelligence staff uses intelligence reach and requests additional
  information from higher headquarters to fill the information gaps in the initial intelligence estimate. The
  intelligence staff should identify and tap into any ongoing or existing information collection activities or
  joint intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance collection that offers relevant information to fill gaps.
  3-10. The commander and staff shift their efforts to describing the operational environment using mission
  variables when a mission is received. The commander and staff also begin preparations for the MDMP.
  Commanders provide their initial guidance to the staff. The staff uses it to develop the initial information
  collection tasks to units and transmits it as part of the first warning order. Commanders state the critical
  information required for the area of operations in their guidance. Expressed in later steps of the MDMP,
  these requirements identify the critical pieces of information for the commander to successfully plan,
  prepare, execute, and assess operations.
  3-11. During the receipt of mission step, the staff gathers tools needed for the MDMP, begins the
  intelligence estimate, updates running estimates, and performs an initial assessment of the time available to
  subordinate units for planning, preparation, and execution. Since information collection assets are required
  early, the staff needs sufficient preparation time to begin sending information that the commander needs.
  3-12. The information collection outputs from this step include—
  * The commander’s initial information collection guidance.
  * Intelligence reach tasks.
  * Requests for information to higher headquarters.
  * Directions for accessing ongoing or existing information collection activities or joint
  intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.
  * The first warning order with initial information collection tasks.