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The Joint Air Ground Integration Center Description, Functions, and Organization 17 April 2019 ATP 3-91.1/AFTTP 3-2.86 1-5 (JP 3-03). Integration includes but is not limited to AI, strike coordination and reconnaissance operations, and artillery interdiction, all within the division commander’s area of operations. Strike coordination and reconnaissance is a mission flown for the purpose of detecting targets and coordinating or performing attack or reconnaissance on those targets (JP 3-03). FRIENDLY FORCE IDENTIFICATION 1-15. The JAGIC closely integrates Soldiers, Airmen, and identification sources. This increases situational awareness and results in enhanced friendly force identification. While the COIC is primarily responsible for maintaining situational awareness of maneuver forces and updating the common operational picture (COP), the JAGIC friendly force identification systems can assist the COIC with validation. INFORMATION COLLECTION 1-16. As the division’s airspace control element in the COIC, the JAGIC coordinates airspace for division airborne assets conducting information collection and target acquisition, and may coordinate airspace for joint airborne information collection assets operating in and above the division’s area of operations. The JAGIC is a potential source of battle damage assessment (BDA) to the division’s assistant chief of staff, intelligence (G-2) collection and assessment effort. JOINT AIR GROUND INTEGRATION CENTER ORGANIZATION 1-17. The JAGIC is tailorable and scalable to oversee the execution of fires and airspace control in all phases and types of operations when the division has been assigned airspace for the current operations fight. Each division can tailor its JAGIC to suit particular missions. Although any group employing fires or using division airspace may coordinate with the JAGIC, it is primarily manned with Army and Air Force personnel. 1-18. Army fires personnel in the JAGIC control all aspects of the coordination, synchronization, and employment of fires in support of the division’s current operations. This includes attack guidance matrix updates, fire mission tasking, fire mission monitoring, and target mensuration and collateral damage estimation when required. Mensuration is the process of measurement of a feature or location on the earth to determine an absolute latitude, longitude, and elevation (JP 3-09). Army fires personnel also develop and coordinate fire support coordination measures (FSCMs) that fires personnel in the division command post’s planning sections have not already developed but require immediate development or revision to support maneuver. Furthermore, fires personnel in the JAGIC coordinate with the aviation and Army UAS LNOs to ensure aviation maneuver, intelligence efforts, and fires are mutually supporting. As stated in paragraph 1-9, the JAGIC is part of the COIC and not responsible for planning, however, select JAGIC personnel, in their roles as fires cell and airspace control cell members, may be involved in planning prior to execution. Once execution begins, JAGIC personnel do not leave stations to attend planning meetings since the execution of fires requires current situational awareness. Specific fires personnel in the JAGIC and their duties are listed in paragraphs 1-20 through 1-31. 1-19. Air Force personnel in the JAGIC control all aspects of the coordination, synchronization, and employment of JFACC theater air assets operating in division-assigned airspace. In addition, they can process immediate joint tactical air strike requests (JTAR) and coordinate directly with the JAOC and other TACS elements. Specific ASOC and TACP personnel in the JAGIC and their duties are listed in paragraphs 1-41 through 1-56. JOINT AIR GROUND INTEGRATION CENTER SEATING ARRANGEMENT 1-20. The COIC is the focal point for the execution of operations, and the JAGIC represents an indispensable portion of the COIC, required for its functions in joint fires and airspace control. With the consensus between Army and Air Force participants, the seating chart shown in figure 1-2 has evolved into alternate configurations, i.e. horseshoe or stadium style seating. These seating arrangements are available in various division tactical standard operating procedures (TACSOP) and WFX after action reviews (AAR). None of these alternate configurations, however, has provided rapid information sharing, minimal response times, and shared understanding as well as the base seating arrangement. JAGIC members should keep in