IPOE
Intelligence preparation of the operational environment. Four steps, each owing products that mission analysis and collection plan from. ATP 2-01.3 with Change 2.
Step 1 · Define the operational environment
Bound the AO and AOI and identify the significant characteristics worth analyzing.
- AO and AOI boundsPending
- Significant characteristics listPending
Step 2 · Describe environmental effects
Turn terrain, weather, and civil considerations into effects on friendly and threat operations.
- MCOOPending
- Effects matrixPending
Step 3 · Evaluate the threat
Build the threat model: composition, capabilities, and how the threat fights unconstrained.
- Threat model and templatesPending
- High value target listPending
Step 4 · Determine threat courses of action
Situation templates, the event template and matrix, and the NAIs and draft PIRs they generate.
- Situation templatesPending
- Event template and matrixPending
- NAI listPending
- Draft PIR setPending
Where step 4 outputs go
IPOE is the factory that feeds the rest of the app. NAIs write into Collection Management, draft PIRs into PIR Management, threat COAs become event objects on the Timeline, and the HVT list seeds targeting. Mission analysis on the MDMP board pulls every one of these as inputs.