Planning and administration

Now that we understand the intelligence-gathering needs for the organization in the existing collection operations life cycle, it is at this point in the process in which the collection manager should begin tasking groups or individuals to collect and work through any established processes, such as those defined by the OPSEC plan, rehearse to forecast any operational contingencies, and even ensure the appropriate technology or support vehicles are in place before collection operations. During the planning and administration phase of the operations planning, the collection manager should consider the following while developing the collection operations plan.

People

For every need, the organization should have an established PCR and the collection manager must consider whether the organization has the appropriate people to perform collection. During this consideration, the collection manager can usually fit personnel evaluation into three distinct categories...