ATP-3-09-42 Fire Support for the Brigade Combat Team Download

Planning and Integrating Fires for BCT Operations 1 March 2016 ATP 3-09.42 6-13 Table 6-7. BCT fires cell during mission analysis MDMP STEP 2: MISSION ANALYSIS BCT Staff Key Fires Cell Actions Fires Cell Output • Analyze the higher headquarters plan or order. • Perform intelligence preparation of the battlefield. • Determine specified, implied, and essential tasks. • Review available assets and identify resource shortfalls. • Determine constraints. • Identify critical facts and develop assumptions. • Begin risk management. • Develop initial commander’s critical information requirements and essential elements of friendly information. • Determine initial reconnaissance and surveillance synchronization tools. • Determine initial reconnaissance and surveillance plan. • Update plan for the use of available time. • Develop initial themes and messages. • Develop a proposed problem statement. • Develop a proposed mission statement. • Present the mission analysis briefing. • Develop and issue initial commander’s intent. •Develop and issue initial planning guidance. • Develop course of action evaluation criteria. •Issue a warning order. • Understand next two higher headquarters operations and fire support plans. •Receive intelligence preparation of the battlefield products including enemy courses of action and high-value targets by phase or critical events from S-2 and intelligence cell. • Conduct fires running estimate; organize and analyze facts. • Identify specified and implied tasks for fire support. • Translate status of fire support assets and resources into fire support capabilities, limitations, and vulnerabilities. • Analyze the effects of intelligence preparation of the battlefield on fire support. • Develop draft fire support tasks with task, purpose, and effect. • Identify long-lead time fire support tasks. • Update the fires running estimate. • Provide input for restated mission, commander’s intent, guidance and warning including: Desired effects from fire support. Tentative high-payoff targets from among the high-value targets. Attack guidance. Allocation/positioning of fire support assets. Sustainment for fire support. •Fire support system status. • Specified targets from higher headquarters fire support intelligence preparation of the battlefield, for example, historic pattern analysis (point of origin and point of impact locations). • Fire support asset range arc depictions. • Fire support limitations and constrains. • Fire support portion of the mission analysis briefing. • Fire support-related input to the commander’s critical information requirements. • Initial fire support rehearsal guidance and times. • Commander’s approval of initial fire support tasks or modification. • Update fire support input to the warning order after the mission analysis brief. • Fire support input to BCT commander’s planning guidance. • Updated fire support-related operational timeline. BCT – brigade combat team MDMP – military decisionmaking process S-2 – brigade or battalion intelligence officer COURSE OF ACTION DEVELOPMENT 6-39. As the staff begins the steps of course of action development (see table 6-8 on page 6-14), the BCT staff, FSCOORD and fires cell planners must conceptualize how to best integrate fire support into the developing course of action. As the staff analyzes combat power, generates options, arrays initial forces