2-45. Planning and coordinating the intelligence architecture is critical during all types of operations. When developing the intelligence architecture, the intelligence staff considers all personnel, organizations, systems, and procedures necessary for developing intelligence, including those needed for intelligence operations. The architecture must address bandwidth requirements, preparing for operations, collecting the required information and analyzing it, producing the required products, disseminating the resulting intelligence, and assessing both the intelligence produced and the process that produced it. It is critical for the intelligence staff to work with the commander and the staff as early as possible and throughout planning to ensure the intelligence architecture is addressed adequately. The G-2/S-2 also ensures the unit or organization and its subordinates are adequately integrated into their intelligence architecture to enable effective information collection, PED, and analysis to support mission requirements. This ensures the intelligence architecture supports the necessary operational and technical connections between collection assets, control elements, PED nodes, analytical cells, and headquarters to enable an effective and efficient information flow of intelligence to decision makers and the rest of DOD.