text: Commander and Staff Roles and Responsibilities
  Table 2-1. Example of the operations and intelligence working group
  Purpose: To synchronize information collection Staff Proponent: G-2 (S-2)
  with operations, determine current requirements Chair: Deputy commander
  and make full use of all available assets to meet
  Attendees: Primary staff sections, fires officer,
  the commander’s intent and requirements.
  G-2X (S-2X), brigade or battalion liaison officers,
  Frequency: Twice weekly. and Air Force liaison officer.
  Duration: 30 to 45 minutes.
  Location: To be determined.
  Inputs: Agenda:
  • Command group guidance. • Command group guidance review.
  • Area of operations update. • Area of operations review.
  • CCIRs update. • Past information collection plan review.
  • Future operations requirements. • Weather.
  • Subordinate unit requirements. • Future operations requirements.
  • Targeting requirements. • Subordinate unit requirements.
  • Air tasking order nomination. • Targeting requirements.
  Outputs: • Allocation of collection resources and
  • Priorities and recommendations for latest assets availability.
  information collection plan. • Issues review.
  • Latest scrub of the commander’s critical • Summary.
  information requirements. • Closing comments.
  • Fragmentary order input.
  FUSION WORKING GROUP
  2-38. Typically, brigade and above form a fusion working group. This working group refines and fuses the
  intelligence between the command and its subordinate units. The output of this working group provides the
  intelligence staff with refinements to the situation template and the event template. The working group also
  refines existing PIRs and recommends new PIRs to the operations and intelligence working group.
  Additionally, the working group reviews requirements to ensure currency.
  TARGETING WORKING GROUP
  2-39. The targeting working group synchronizes the unit’s targeting assets and priorities. For the staff,
  supporting the planning for the decide, detect, deliver, and assess (known as D3A) activities of the targeting
  process requires continuous update of IPB products (such as situation templates and COA matrixes). The
  targeting working group considers targeting related collection and exploitation requirements. It also
  recommends additional requirements to the operations and intelligence working group. Staffs articulate
  these requirements early in the targeting process to support target development and other assessments.
  2-40. Information collection support to target development takes D3A methodology and applies this to the
  development of targets. Units using other targeting techniques—such as find, fix, finish, exploit, analyze,
  and disseminate (known as F3EAD) or find, fix, track, target, engage, and assess—require no adaptation to
  the information collection support to targeting process. Nominations for request to current and future
  tasking orders as well as refinements to the high-value target lists are outputs of this working group.
  2-41. The results of these working groups form the basis of the requests for information collection and
  products the intelligence staff uses to create requirements planning tools. The operations staff integrates
  these tools in the creation of the information collection plan.