Branches within the ICS organization can be established - Geographically or functionally.

Planning Section Chief generally facilitates the Operational Period Briefing.

The information and intelligence function may be organized in one of the following ways:
Within the Command Staff
As a Unit Within the Planning Section
As a Branch Within the Operations Section
As a Separate General Staff Section.

Planning Section Chief generally facilitates the Operational Period Briefing.

Unity of Command means that each individual involved in incident operations will be assigned to only one supervisor.