Requirements are met during the process within collection management, production management, and dissemination management. Following is a high-level overview, as we will get to these processes in later sections in this chapter: 

• Collection management:
  • Ensures that collection resources are tasked and used effectively 
  • Monitors collection efforts
  • Converts IRs to collection requirements and prioritizes them 
  • Coordinates support from collection sources or agencies
  • Aggregates data collected and prepares data for analysis
• Production management:
  • Manages and organizes the analysis of information that has been received from the collection management process
  • Takes the data and converts it to an information product
  • Information products:
    • Have a defined scope, content, and format
    • Are prioritized and a plan/schedule is developed for each product
  • Prepares information products for dissemination
• Dissemination management:
  • Ensures that the right information in the correct format gets to the right people at the right time
  • Establishes the priorities for dissemination
  • How the product will be distributed
  • Monitors the flow of intelligence throughout the organization