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Chapter 2 102 ATP 5-0.2-1 07 December 2020 Refine High-Value Targets for Each COA 2-303. Refining HVTs involves mentally war gaming a threat COA to determine the assets required to complete the mission. This process— Uses the high-value target list developed in Step 3 of the IPB process as a guide. Determines the effects on the threat COA if the targets are lost. Identifies possible threat responses if the target is lost. 2-304. Based on the situation, one or more targets from the threat model may be validated as HVTs. Targets that were not identified in the threat model may also be HVTs. During planning, the staff uses the HVT list developed for each threat COA to construct the HPT list. Identify Initial Collection Requirements for Each COA 2-305. After identifying the full set of potential threat COAs, the staff develops the tools necessary to determine which COA the threat may implement. Because the threat has not acted yet, this determination cannot be made during IPB. However, the staff can develop the information requirements and indicators necessary to support construction of an information collection plan that can provide the information necessary to confirm or deny threat COAs and locate enemy targets (see the IC section, starting in paragraph 2-312 and FM 3-55, for more on IC). 2-306. Information requirements, in intelligence usage, are those items of information regarding the adversary and other relevant aspects of the operational environment that need to be collected and processed in order to meet the intelligence requirements of a commander. Also called IR (JP 2-0). Identifying and monitoring indicators are fundamental tasks of intelligence analysis, because indicators are the principal means of avoiding surprise. Indicators are often described as being forward looking or predictive in the way they are developed and applied to a specific situation. Table 2-25 is an example of offensive indicators.