Theory
The authority to establish, prioritize, and validate theater collection requirements, establish sensor tasking guidance, and develop theater-wide collection policies.
What is Collection Management Authority (CMA)?
This is the Tasking portion of the Tasking, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TPED) process.
What is the Collection Requirements Cycle?
Within the Combat Operations Division, this individual is responsible for executing the ISR operations in concert with other key Air Force, joint, other government agencies, and coalition partners
Who is the Senior Intelligence Duty Officer (SIDO)?
These are the two theater ISR assets capable of being tasked for IMINT, SIGINT, and GMTI collection.
What are the RQ-4 and U2?
The director of this agency serves as director for DJOIC.
Who is the DIA?
This is often delegated to an echelon below the JFC (usually the commander, Air Force forces [COMAFFOR]), when that echelon has the required expertise in daily collection operations for specific ISR assets.
What is Collection Operations Management (COM)?
Sends Collection Requests (CRs) or Request for Information (RFIs) to the Collection Manager (CM) for approval.
Who are the Customers?
Collection Managers coordinate with whom to determine if service components’ organic assets are capable of satisfying a specific requirement.
Who are the Operations Planners?
Manages the Global Force Management Allocation Plan (GFMAP).
Who is the Joint Staff?
This agency is responsible for SIGINT, IA and Cryptologic Services Groups (CSG).
What is the NSA?
This is the authoritative direction, scheduling, and control of specific collection operations and associated processing, exploitation, and reporting resources.
What is Collection Operations Management (COM)?
Validates and prioritize the Collection Requests (CRs) for Theater and national systems, then forward to the respective Theater CM at the JOIC.
Who is the Collection Manager?
These individuals should seek to maximize the use of existing collections; this requires full access to national databases.
Who are the Collection Managers?
This High-Altitude platform’s collection/mission tasking is typically planned by their own unit.
What is the RQ-4 Global Hawk?
This agency is responsible for GEOINT, National imagery Collection and has support teams at COCOMs.
What is the NGA?
Retains CMA over the tasking of strategic-capable SIGINT ISR systems.
Who is the National Security Agency (NSA)?
Validated Collection Requests (CRs) from components, JTFs, and COCOMS will become part of this.
What is the Theater Collection Plan?
The AOC plays this role in Collection Management
What is the ISRD?
This platform’s collection/mission tasking is typically planned by the unit that will exploit the mission.
What is the U2?
This agency is responsible for HUMINT, All Source, political and economic intelligence.
Who is the CIA?
He / She may specifically request and subsequently receive temporary SIGINT operational tasking authority (SOTA) over theater-wide capable platforms and sensors.
Who is the Combatant Commander (CCDR)?
Collection Requests (CRs) are integrated into this, based on priority of the target or information.
What is the Mission Plan?
The AOC is the senior agency of this Air Force individual, that provides C2 of Air Force Air and Space operations.
Who is the Component Commander?
This lists the operations and supported units that an MQ-9 line is tasked to support.
What is the RSTA Annex?
This agency provides SIGINT, IMINT and MASINT satellite imagery to the DIA.
Who is the NRO?