Company Intelligence Support Teams

The mission of COISTs is to describe the effects of the weather, enemy, terrain, and local population on friendly operations to reduce uncertainty and aid in decision making...

The COIST provides a 24/7 analytical, production, and dissemination capability at the company level, which gives the commander options to exploit enemy vulnerabilities...

[More importantly, COISTs fuse operations and intelligence by building habitual relationships between these two groups of people in which there is frequent and continuous visibility into their respective activities, opportunities for influence on their respective activities, and inescapable accountability for the consequences of such influence.]