The collection management process
Intelligence collection management is the process in which your organization manages the gathering of information and data, aligns it to your organization's intelligence requirements, and, depending on the maturity of the organization, validates or interprets the collected data. It's the holistic process of determining the prioritization of data collection based on your organization's needs, the planning of collection operations to ensure successful intelligence gathering, and the evaluation of collected information to either validate the data or the source of the information.
Most organizations that implement a collection management process utilize the organization's Prioritized Intelligence Requirements (PIRs) and General Intelligence Requirements (GIRs) to drive the collection management program. If you remember in Chapter 3, Guidance and Policies, we introduced the concept of PIRs, which are intelligence requirements that...
