Process and analysis
What is Collection plan?
A plan matching each intelligence requirement to the sources and methods that will answer it, and showing where the gaps are.
A collection plan maps each intelligence requirement to the sources, methods and owners expected to answer it, along with how often and how far back. It makes gaps visible: requirements with no source, and sources that serve no requirement.
The plan keeps collection honest and affordable. Without one, teams tend to collect whatever is easy, such as feeds, and miss the sources that actually answer their hardest questions.