text: Chapter 5
  5-9. The intelligence staff is primarily responsible for providing the commander and staff with intelligence
  on the threat, terrain, weather and weather effects, civil considerations, and other significant aspects of the
  OE. Other intelligence staff responsibilities include but are not limited to—
  ⚫ Enabling an effective intelligence process:
  ▪ Plan, establish, and revise an intelligence architecture in close collaboration with the
  G-6/S-6 and other staff members.
  ▪ Leverage data, information, and intelligence to provide the best intelligence support
  possible.
  ▪ Lead collection management, which drives information collection. Develop a draft of
  Annex L (Information Collection) of the order to assist the G-3/S-3.
  ▪ Ensure ongoing information collection—collecting the information needed for anticipated
  decisions and intelligence requirements.
  ▪ Use knowledge management techniques to optimize intelligence support.
  ▪ Answer requests for information (RFIs) from higher, subordinate, and adjacent units.
  ▪ Disseminate intelligence to higher, subordinate, and adjacent units and organizations.
  ⚫ Determining and requesting foreign disclosure office/representative support to facilitate
  collaboration with unified action partners and allies.
  ⚫ Facilitating an understanding of the OE, with the greatest emphasis on the threat, terrain,
  weather and weather effects, civil considerations, and other significant aspects of the OE:
  ▪ Conduct pre-mission analysis of the OE, including analysis of threat capabilities and the
  population (especially information dimension effects) across the domains and dimensions.
  ▪ Lead IPOE and produce the various IPOE products.
  ▪ Analyze and evaluate civil considerations in close collaboration with the G-9/S-9.
  ▪ Facilitate the USAF SWO or staff weather team in effectively providing forecasts and
  weather effects on friendly and enemy capabilities.
  Note. Commanders, supported by their staffs, must develop and maintain the best possible
  understanding of their OE, including the domains, dimensions, and the operational and mission
  variables. (See paragraph 2-31 for means to understanding the OE.) Figures 2-5 and 2-6 on pages
  2-18 and 2-20, respectively, illustrate the inclusion of the domains, dimensions, and the
  operational and mission variables into staff activities and analysis, specifically the intelligence
  staff’s responsibility to provide the commander and staff with intelligence on the threat, terrain,
  weather and weather effects, civil considerations, and other significant aspects of the OE.
  ⚫ Supporting all forms of planning and assessments, to include targeting and the other integrating
  processes:
  ▪ Write Annex B (Intelligence) of the order.
  ▪ Provide intelligence support to targeting (through lethal and nonlethal means).
  ▪ Provide intelligence support to CA units executing operations with unified action partners
  and regional and local populations and institutions.
  ▪ Provide intelligence support to psychological operations, operations security (OPSEC),
  military deception, and other information advantage activities.
  ▪ Provide intelligence support to risk management.
  ▪ Provide intelligence support to knowledge management.
  ⚫ Supporting the conduct of operations and the commander’s decisions:
  ▪ Answer intelligence requirements and provide advice.
  ▪ Perform situation development, maintain the intelligence running estimate, and develop the
  CIP and the intelligence portion of the COP.
  ▪ Provide support to protection and sustainment (including specific requirements in the rear area).
  ▪ Provide support to combat assessment.