text: Information Collection Tasking and Directing
  4-5. An information collection plan is the primary means of tasking assets. Staffs can issue this plan as
  part of the completed operation order; however, the tactical situation may impose a limited time constraint.
  In such cases, staffs can issue the information collection plan as early as the initial warning order. This
  gives collection assets time to prepare for information collection activities. Staffs use fragmentary orders to
  retask assets already conducting operations and to adjust execution as requirements and priorities change.
  INFORMATION COLLECTION OVERLAY
  4-6. The staff may issue an information collection overlay depicting the information collection plan in
  graphic form as an appendix to annex L to the operation order. Typical items on the overlay include the
  following:
  * Friendly boundaries and phase lines.
  * Reconnaissance handover lines.
  * NAIs and TAIs.
  * Limits of advance and limits of reconnaissance. Limits of reconnaissance are constraints derived
  from higher headquarters orders that may designate a limit of advance that impact
  reconnaissance units.
  * Counterreconnaissance areas.
  * Fire support control measures.
  * Graphics depicting zone, area, or route reconnaissance.
  * Route start points, release points, infiltration lanes, and checkpoints.
  * Primary and alternate observation post locations.
  * Ambulance exchange points and logistic release points.
  * Planned or existing obstacles.
  * Scanned sectors for sensors.
  * Unmanned aircraft system flight paths.
  * Retransmission locations.
  4-7. Figure 4-2 on page 4-4 displays an example of an information collection overlay.
  INFORMATION COLLECTION SCHEME OF SUPPORT
  4-8. The information collection scheme of support includes the planning and execution of operations and
  resources to support the Soldiers and units who perform information collection. This support includes fires,
  movement, protection, and sustainment (logistics, personnel services, health services support, and other
  sustainment related functions). The staff prepares the initial scheme of support. The operations officer
  approves the plan and tasks units.