text: Joint Task Force and Multinational Intelligence Considerations
  INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS PLANNING AND COORDINATION IN MULTINATIONAL
  OPERATIONS
  A-20. Like the United States, unified action partners have policy restraints and sovereignty concerns. Such
  restraints and concerns mean that nations will likely limit their available assets to a multinational force.
  Therefore, multinational forces accept that they will often have limited, decentralized control over some of
  their intelligence assets, and they will have no direct control over assets restricted by individual nations.
  These restricted assets are managed by nations’ national intelligence cell. Multinational forces performing
  intelligence operations establish an intelligence fusion cell at the headquarters level through which
  intelligence tasks flow. This cell assists in integrating intelligence representatives and liaison personnel at
  each organizational level and improves access to intelligence capabilities. Staffs base information collection
  plans on matching a coalition organization’s intelligence requirements with available and accessible
  intelligence assets.
  A-21. The multinational force executes ISR with an emphasis on leveraging the larger intelligence enterprise.
  The commander provides the intelligence section with a clear mission statement and commander’s intent.
  The intelligence section then develops PIRs and prioritizes intelligence collection requirements to meet the
  commander’s needs. A multinational force’s ability to gather and process intelligence varies widely. The
  command’s collection manager accounts for this variance and tasks various intelligence assets and ISR
  platforms accordingly, matching collection assets with requirements to answer PIRs. Sharing information
  and mutual support are key to integrating all resources into a system to best meet the command’s intelligence
  requirements.
  INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT AND COLLECTION MANAGEMENT
  A-22. Conducted at all levels in NATO, intelligence requirements management and collection management
  are integrated management processes and services to satisfy intelligence requirements by making the best
  use of the available collection, PED, and intelligence processing capabilities. They ensure intelligence
  requirements are answered and the collection, PED, and processing capabilities available are focused and
  prioritized. A common understanding allows higher and lower headquarters within NATO and nations to
  share intelligence information and make the best use of collection and exploitation capabilities:
  ⚫ Intelligence requirements management describes a set of integrated management processes
  and services that summarize, prioritize, and validate incoming intelligence requirements; initiate
  the collection of associated information; quality control processed outputs, and oversee the
  dissemination of intelligence products. The intelligence staff leads this management process. In
  any operation or planning situation, commanders determine the type of information required to
  allow them to plan and conduct their mission effectively.
  ⚫ Collection management, defined in paragraph 5-17, also encompasses activities related to the
  execution and coordination of the joint ISR process. The theater collection manager implements
  collection management. The theater collection manager exercises collection management
  authority for a given mission and area of intelligence responsibility and directs CRM and COM
  to synchronize joint ISR and task, collect, process, exploit, and disseminate activities among
  participating nations and partners.
  Note. Paragraph A-22 implements multinational doctrine contained in AJP-2 and AJP-2.1.
  SHARING AND WRITE FOR RELEASE
  A-23. The joint force should share relevant intelligence about the situation and adversary with its
  multinational partners consistent with respective national disclosure policy and JFC guidance. However,
  information about intelligence sources and methods should not be shared among allies and partner nations
  until approved by the appropriate national-level agency. In most multinational operations, commanders share
  intelligence with foreign forces and coordinate receiving intelligence from those forces.