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Joint Air Ground Integration Center Operations 17 April 2019 ATP 3-91.1/AFTTP 3-2.86 2-11 DIVISION TACTICAL COMMAND POST 2-30. Normally, the JAGIC is located at the division main command post. In some instances, divisions control current operations from the TAC. In the future, divisions may employ two TAC teams to enable persistent operations against peer and near-peer threats. In these instances, the JAGIC may augment a division tactical command post with Airmen and Soldiers. These distributive capabilities will enable the TAC teams to direct fires and aviation in support of ground forces. By performing various air support control functions, JAGIC personnel in the TAC primarily serve as an extension of the JAGIC by extending the JAGIC’s air operations C2 capabilities to other units or geographic areas. The Airmen and Soldiers supporting a TAC will coordinate with the JAGIC at the main command post to ensure synchronization of division fires and airspace control. When the JAGIC and the main command post displace, the Airmen and Soldiers supporting the TAC will either be augmented with everything they need to communicate with the JAOC or coordinate with an alternate command post. For additional operational considerations involving one or two TAC teams and, or command post displacement of the main, see chapter 3, Planning and Operational Considerations during Large-Scale Combat Operations. DIVISION FIRES CELL PLANNING 2-31. While JAGIC collaboration improves joint fires execution in support of the division, it does not relieve the fires element of the planning tasks and responsibilities outlined in JP 3-09.3 and FM 3-09. The division fires element is an organization in the command post responsible for coordinating the activities and systems that provide for the use of Army indirect fires and joint fires. The fires element planners coordinate target acquisition, target dissemination, and target engagement, and they manage the division targeting process. They also integrate and synchronize airspace control requirements with Army and joint control measures, including FSCMs and ACMs, and provide input to the air tasking order, airspace control plan, and airspace control order. In addition, the fires element planning section coordinates with the TACP for preplanned CAS and AI requests. The fires element retains responsibility for forwarding CAS and AI requests through Army fires coordination channels to the BCD through Army fires channels. For immediate CAS and AI, the current operations fires element in the JAGIC requests and coordinates with the appropriate personnel internal to the JAGIC. (See FM 3-09 for additional information on the division fires cell.) 2-32. The fires element includes AMD functions and personnel. These functions include planning and coordinating AMD, providing air and ground positive and procedural identification, providing early warning, contributing to airspace control planning and execution, and contributing to joint and local airspace deconfliction and clearance of fires. 2-33. The chief of fires or the DFSCOORD leads the division fires element. The JAGIC chief ensures JAGIC personnel understand all aspects of the fires plan, including division targets, FSCMs, priorities of fire, and resource priorities. JAGIC personnel receive daily briefings from the fires element to ensure situational understanding on fires planning and execution. DIVISION ARTILLERY 2-34. DIVARTY is a brigade level fires command organic to the division and, unless the division has a field artillery brigade, the DIVARTY serves as the division’s force field artillery headquarters. As stated in chapter 1, the DIVARTY commander is usually the division FSCOORD responsible for oversight of the JAGIC and its fires cell. The DIVARTY must have a strong working relationship with the JAGIC whether it is the force field artillery headquarters for the division or not. This ensures efficient and effective delivery of surface based fires. While a DIVARTY JAGIC liaison is not yet a task organization and equipment listed position, JAGIC chiefs, in partnership with the division fires cell and the DIVARTY staff, must establish shared processes and a shared TACSOP. This practice ensures their partnership is as effective as the ASOC’s partnership with the rest of the JAGIC. (See FM 3-0, chapter 2, and ATP 3-09.90 for additional information on the DIVARTY’s roles and responsibilities.) FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADES 2-35. The field artillery brigade and the DIVARTY are the only Army field artillery organization above the BCT field artillery organizations. The field artillery brigade, however, may not be assigned to or in