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Planning and Integrating Fires for BCT Operations 1 March 2016 ATP 3-09.42 6-57 Commander’s critical information requirements, priority intelligence requirements and information and intelligence requirements. Information collection plan. Target acquisition tasking(s). High-payoff target list. Target selection standards. Attack guidance matrix. Targeting synchronization matrix. Measures of performance and measures of effectiveness for assessment. Fire support tasks including appropriate aspects of information operations and electronic warfare. Target list worksheet(s) (automated or manual). 6-206. FSCMs (described in FM 3-09) are routinely referenced in the OPLAN or OPORD coordinating instructions. Other fire support related information appears in the coordinating instructions when it: Affects two or more units. Depends on friendly actions. Involves synchronization with other warfighting functions. 6-207. The FSCOORD and brigade FSO ensure that the cannon field artillery battalion S-3 conducts a parallel planning process—identifying fire support tasks and preparing the field artillery battalion OPORD or field artillery support plan. Identification and coordination of fire support, field artillery, and combined arms rehearsal requirements should also begin. FIRE SUPPORT PLANS 6-208. The OPORD paragraph 3e scheme of fires paragraph contains the information necessary to understand how fire support will be used to support an operation. The scheme of fires paragraph should include a subparagraph for each type of fire support involved. Appropriate fire support liaison representatives prepare their respective paragraphs. The fire support planners may combine these subparagraphs into an integrated fire support plan. If the integrated fire support plan includes a target list, it reflects only those targets the commander thinks are critical to the operation. The FSCOORD, fires cell planners, and targeting officers must also ensure that the integrated fire support plan gives enough of the BCT commander's guidance to ensure sufficient information is available for field artillery automated data processing systems. ANNEX TO THE OPERATIONS ORDER 6-209. If the operation requires lengthy or detailed plans or if paragraph 3 becomes unwieldy, a separate fires annex to the OPORD may be prepared. Such an annex amplifies the instructions in the OPORD. APPENDICES TO THE ANNEX 6-210. Specific plans for each type of fire support (such as air support, field artillery support, and naval surface fire support) are prepared, as needed, to amplify the fire support plan. The fire support plan can include planning products such as an observation matrix, fire support execution matrix, radar deployment order and execution matrix (normally taken from the field artillery battalion OPORD), or target acquisition appendix. SUMMARY 6-211. When the time comes to write input to the body of the order and the supporting Annex D, (FIRES) (if used) nearly all the detailed coordination, synchronization, and deconfliction work is completed. The fire support planners coordinate the fire support plan or annex with organizations involved with executing tasks and with those organizations that fire support will affect. The FSCOORD, fires cell planners, and targeting officers also crosswalk the fire support plan or annex with the OPLANs or OPORDs of higher,