JP 3-01 Countering Air and Missile Threats - Defense Innovation ...

Counterair Planning
22. Intelligence Support
a. Intelligence support for counterair operations begins with the JIPOE and IPB
processes. Ongoing intelligence support provides current, integrated, accurate, and timely
all-source intelligence of adversary capabilities and activities developed from interface with
existing national and theater intelligence sources. The intelligence system is vital to decision
making and must support the status, assessment, planning, warning, and JIPOE and IPB
functions, as well as target prioritization and engagement decisions. Intelligence elements
should be tailored to support real-time operations as well as deliberate planning. Intelligence
functions include collection management; combat assessment, including battle damage
assessment from OCA efforts, indications and warning/early warning/launch warning,
assessing weather effects, and providing the NRT data on enemy targets; operating bases;
missile launch sites and hide sites; EW systems; C2 facilities; surveillance and control
systems; and logistic and infrastructure support.
b. The JFC normally will be supported by a joint intelligence element where appropriate
and possibly by a national intelligence support team. Although the functional systems
(sensors, decision support, or fusion centers and firing units) may be dissimilar, interoperable
communications and software must be possible, including making allowances for systems of
MNF members. Issues regarding the release of intelligence to MNF partners must be
addressed as early as possible during counterair planning.
c. Increasing the readiness posture includes performing the vital operating functions that
prepare weapon systems, ISR assets, and C2 nodes for the level of hostile activity
anticipated. Once enemy air and missile activities are detected, the preparation and planning
measures provide a capability for parallel defensive and offensive responses. Hostile air and
missile activity observed and identified through sensor and surveillance systems (national,
theater, and tactical) keys the C2 process that uses communications interfaces to provide
NRT DCA and OCA responses. Data is made available in NRT to C2 centers, systems, and
forces supporting counterair operations. Simultaneously, while enemy air and missiles are in
flight, updated enemy launch locations and target database information are passed to the
appropriate C2 and attack systems, and launch warnings are provided to all units or
commands within the theater.
For more information, see JP 2-01, Joint and National Intelligence Support to Military
Operations, and JP 2-03, Geospatial Intelligence Support to Joint Operations.
23. Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
a. Situational awareness relies on joint force ISR and associated processing,
exploitation, and dissemination capabilities. Those capabilities are provided by air-, land-,
space-, and sea-based platforms. As a group, ISR platforms with multidimensional sensors
provide the most accurate “picture” of the adversary. Many ISR assets are high demand/low
density and require careful planning for their utilization.
b. The backbone of ISR capabilities is a theater ISR CONOPS based on a coherent
collection strategy that fully integrates and optimizes the use of all organic, multinational,
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