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Chapter 6 6-12 ATP 3-09.42 1 March 2016 Table 6-6. BCT fires cell during receipt of mission MDMP STEP 1: RECEIPT OF MISSION BCT Staff Key Fires Cell Actions Fires Cell Output • Alert the staff and other key participant. • Gather the tools. • Update running estimates. • Conduct initial assessment. • Issue the commander’s initial guidance. • Issue the warning order. • Collect higher headquarters operations plan/operations order, maps, current intelligence preparation of the battlefield, and fires running estimate. • Update fires running estimate; gather facts from higher, lower, and adjacent fires cells. • Provide fire support input during formulation of the BCE commander’s initial guidance and initial warning order. • Receive intelligence preparation of the battlefield products. • Receive enemy course of action from S-2 and intelligence cell. • Receive high-value targets by phase or critical event from intelligence cell. • Updated fires running estimate. • Provide updated facts to higher, lower, and adjacent headquarters. • Fire support input to initial intelligence preparation of the battlefield and reconnaissance and surveillance tasking. BCT – brigade combat team MDMP – military decisionmaking process S-2 – brigade or battalion intelligence officer MISSION ANALYSIS 6-38. A thorough mission analysis is crucial to planning. Mission analysis (see table 6-7) consists of the tasks identified in FM 6-0. The fires cell uses the running estimate to record assessments and other information.