Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com FM 34-54 eye out for a suspected external modification on a particular model of main battle tank during the normal course of their duty. TECHINT collection is acquiring foreign materiel, associated technical documents, or other information of TECHINT interest and providing these to the processing and production elements. It includes the maneuver and positioning of intelligence assets to locations favorable to satisfying TECHINT collection objectives. All TECHINT collection is guided by CCIR, SIR, and the TECHINT collection list. Battlefield TECHINT collection includes capturing, reporting, and evacuating CEM.
For that reason, tactical TECHINT and intelligence planners must include a CEM appendix in the Logistics Annex to the OPORD. Logistics is critical in TECHINT collection operations. Forward deployed units capture or collect items of known or possible TECHINT interest. Capturing units will normally safeguard CEM and report it through intelligence channels to the first TECHINT element in the reporting chain, normally the TECHINT LNE at Corps G2. The Corps TECHINT LNE then forwards the report simultaneously to the JCMEC and JTIB and verifies if the type of materiel captured is required.
Further disposition is determined, appropriate coordination is made by the Corps TECHINT LNE with G2/G3 staff, and the capturing unit receives guidance through operational (G3/S3) channels. Figure 4-3 describes the flow of CEM guidance and decisions. A TECHINT collection team may be sent forward to confirm the identification and conduct initial exploitation of the materiel at the site. Often the items of TECHINT value are subcomponents of major end items. In this case, the collection team removes and evacuates the items using organic transportation, as shown in Figure 4-4. The capturing unit may be ordered to evacuate the materiel with its organic equipment.
In this instance, they will receive detailed instructions from the Corps LNE or direct support TECHINT collection team via G3/S3 channels. The Corps LNE or TECHINT collection team moves to the materiel's location at the Corps CEM collection point when the materiel is not taken directly to a Corps CMEC (Forward) or Theater JCMEC. TECHINT collection can prove to be a significant force protection multiplier. One example is TECHINT team identification of NBC materiel prior to transport, handling, or destruction of munitions or samples. 4-3 COLLECT