(DoD) A plan for collecting information from all available sources to meet intelligence requirements and for transforming those requirements into orders and requests to appropriate agencies. See also information; information requirements; intelligence process.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
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