3-9. The intelligence process leverages all sources of information and expertise, including the intelligence community and nonintelligence entities, to provide situational awareness to the commander and staff. The intelligence warfighting function uses the intelligence process as a management tool to ensure the right information gets to the right users at the right time in a useable format without inundating users. Just as the activities of the operations process overlap and recur as the mission demands, so do the steps of the intelligence process.