ATP-3-09-90 Division Artillery Operations and Fire Support Download

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Division Fire Support ATP 3-09.90 2-3 Table 2-2. Division fires cell during mission analysis Military Decisionmaking Process STEP 2: MISSION ANALYSIS Division Staff Key FSCOORD and Fires Cell Actions Fires Cell Output • Analyze the higher headquarters plan or order. • Perform IPB. Determine specified, implied, and essential tasks. Review available assets and identify resource shortfalls. Determine constraints. Identify critical facts and develop assumptions. Begin risk management; identify and assess hazards. Develop initial commander’s critical information requirements and essential elements of friendly information. • Understand next 2 higher headquarters operations and fire support plans. • Receive IPB products including enemy courses of action and high-value targets by phase or critical events from G-2. • 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 IPB products for fire support task development. • Develop draft fire support tasks with task, purpose, and effect. • Identify long-lead time fire support tasks. •Fire support system status. Specified targets from higher headquarters fire support IPB, 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. 12 October 2017