Summary
In this chapter, we tried to articulate the importance of Collection in the intelligence life cycle, a section that is often overlooked by the private sector whose foundation has roots in the government and the military. Hopefully what you garnered through this chapter is the importance of the collection management process, the role that the collection manager plays in any organization, and the collection operations life cycle, which details the efforts of intelligence gathering.
We broke down each phase of the collection operations life cycle by focusing first on reviewing what you know about your collection effectiveness, surveying the needs of the organization while reevaluating the PCRs, planning and administering the collection operation, performing the collection operation, evaluating the collection and source information, and creating collection metrics. Collection metrics provide you with insight into your overall collection effort and can be utilized to shift your...
