In Tactical Collection Management, students learn the processes and principles involved in intelligence collection management. The course begins with the initial stages of the collection process, which include reviewing linked intelligence activities and understanding concepts of intelligence preparation for battlespace (IPB) and the Marine Corps Planning Process (MCPP). As the course progresses through the fundamentals of collection management, intelligence disciplines, and targeting, the students learn how to design an intelligence collection strategy comprised of collection requirements and operations management components. The students learn to manage the requirements development processes by formulating actionable intelligence collection requirements in concert with military operations. As the course progresses through collection operations management, students learn to assess the alignment of intelligence disciplines and recommend collection platforms in concert with military operations. Students give and receive critique as they learn to develop, assess, select, schedule, and analyze return on investment of intelligence collection operations to ensure they reduce uncertainty for decision-makers. The course culminates in students applying collection operations management techniques and exploitation methods through practical exercises that simulate real-world dynamic intelligence scenarios.
