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Appendix A A-4 ATP 3-91.1/AFTTP 3-2.86 17 April 2019 an integrated center. Co-location in the JAGIC, not just in the same command post, provides enhanced opportunities for joint fires. Targets entering JAGIC, regardless of type, are reviewed jointly. Units then use the appropriate weapon against the target. The JAGIC makes it possible to immediately use tactical aircraft if they are best suited to create the desired effect. As a request comes into JAGIC, the JAGIC chief can make an immediate decision on the best and most efficient weapon to use against a target. A-9. Next, the targeting officer or representative reviews available attack options. The ATOM reviews potential air attack assets to use against the target. As the targeting officer and ATOM review target options, other actions occur. The ASOC intelligence officer or technician views the target area to search for threats to friendly aircraft. The aviation officer provides assessments of weapons impacts to Army aviation assets in the target area. The AMD officer reviews the impact to on-going air defense artillery activity in the target area, and the Army airspace personnel and Air Force airspace manager review airspace availability. If the element requesting fires has requested fires outside of their area of operations, the JAGIC should coordinate within the COIC to ensure there are no conflicts with units on the ground. Additionally, the fires cell must ensure that the target does not violate any fire support coordination measures. Furthermore, JAGIC members assist the COIC with identifying any mission impacts to the area of operations and required ground clearances. A-10. Once the JAGIC members review all available information, the SAD and targeting officer discuss targeting options with the JAGIC chief. If the JAGIC chief decides the best attack option is an air asset, this process will proceed as either a CAS, an AI, a SEAD, or a target of opportunity mission based on target type. If surface fires are selected against the target, the first step is to deconflict airspace. Mission information is passed digitally and includes a graphically depicted munition flight path (MFP), an associated artillery position area, gun-target line orientation, and maximum ordinate of the likely munition. During assessment of this fire mission, the Army and Air Force airspace managers create or activate required ACMs. Once the JAGIC has deconflicted airspace users, the airspace team delivers a digital or verbal response to the fire control NCO and the JAGIC chief. With the JAGIC chief’s order, the fire control NCO transmits the fire command to the executing fires unit and supervises its execution until complete. A-11. Tactical level resources conduct battle damage assessment as soon as practicable and report it to all JAGIC members for situational awareness on the target. The next step in this process is deactivating ACMs put in place to support the mission, unless the JAGIC chief, following the battle damage assessment, anticipates another iteration of the process. The call for fire process is continual and iterative. The JAGIC chief ends the mission only after it meets criteria from the commander’s intent and scheme of fires. (See figure A-3 on page A-5 for a detailed flowchart showing the immediate call for fire process.)