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  ⚫ Threat situation templates (covering at least the most likely and most dangerous threat COAs).
  ⚫ Event templates and matrices.
  ⚫ Other relevant threat and civil consideration templates.
  ⚫ Analysis of threat systems products.
  ⚫ High-value target (HVT) lists, which facilitate or are used to develop high-payoff target lists
  (HPTLs).
  ⚫ Target value analysis and other intelligence support to targeting products.
  Note. Possible products are limited only by the intelligence staff’s initiative and creativity as
  balanced against time available.
  3-26. Table 3-3 outlines intelligence support to the MDMP.
  Table 3-3. Intelligence support to the military decision-making process
  Step 1—Receipt of mission Intelligence support to step 1
  • Begin parallel planning and collaborate with higher, lower, and adjacent intelligence
  organizations to facilitate the IPOE process.
  • Focus activities on the mission variables.
  • Identify gaps in intelligence holdings.
  • Use intelligence reach to collect updated or additional enemy, terrain and weather, and civil
  considerations data.
  • In coordination with the Air Force staff weather officer, update the weather estimate.
  • In coordination with the cyberspace electromagnetic warfare officer and CEMA section,
  • Alert the staff and other key participants.
  update the effects of the EMS and cyberspace domain, including information from products
  • Gather the tools.
  that portray the physical network and logical network layers.
  • Update running estimates.
  • Coordinate with the G-3/S-3, G-6/S-6, and the CEMA section to address the information
  • Conduct the initial assessment.
  dimension and cyberspace domain. When feasible, coordinate with the JFC information
  • Issue the commander’s initial guidance.
  planning cell.
  • Issue the initial WARNORD.
  • Develop and submit initial requests for information based on intelligence gaps.
  • Work with the operations staff to initiate the movement of collection assets, as needed, to
  position them for future collection.
  • If needed, work with the operations staff to revise ongoing information collection or initiate
  limited preliminary information collection, which is published as Annex L (Information
  Collection) to WARNORD #1.
  • Continually update target packets and the enemy situation.
  • Update the intelligence running estimate.
  Step 2—Mission analysis Intelligence support to step 2
  • Analyze the higher headquarters’ plan or
  order.
  • Perform initial IPOE.
  • Determine specified, implied, and essential
  • Identify gaps in the higher headquarters information collection plan and IPOE.
  tasks.
  • Lead the staff through the IPOE process. Consolidate the staff’s IPOE products into a set of
  • Review available assets and identify
  coherent and holistic IPOE products.
  resource shortfalls.
  • Begin collection management by identifying specified and implied intelligence tasks from the
  • Determine constraints.
  higher headquarters order.
  • Identify critical facts and develop
  • Develop the initial collection management plan and support the initial information collection
  assumptions.
  plan (WARNORD, fragmentary order, or OPORD).
  • Begin a risk assessment.
  • Use pertinent intelligence from higher echelons.
  • Develop initial CCIRs and EEFIs.
  • Assist in determining the area of operations and area of interest.
  • Develop the initial information collection plan.
  • Develop initial information requirements (with staff).
  • Update plan for the use of available time.
  • In coordination with the G-3/S-3, recommend initial PIRs to the commander.
  • Develop initial themes and messages.
  • Assist in developing initial operations security vulnerabilities and EEFIs.
  • Develop a proposed problem statement.
  • Include weather (which includes space) and EMS effects on the enemy’s warfighting function
  • Develop a proposed mission statement.
  capabilities.
  • Present the mission analysis briefing.
  • Include key considerations for threat cyberspace operations, including the identification of
  • Develop and issue the initial commander’s
  key aspects of the cyberspace domain.
  intent.
  • Develop and issue initial planning guidance.
  • Develop COA evaluation criteria.
  • Issue a WARNORD.