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Chapter 1 1-10 ATP 3-91.1/AFTTP 3-2.86 17 April 2019 Operates the Air and Missile Defense Workstation (AMDWS) and the air defense system integrator (ADSI). Operates forward area air defense command and control (FAAD C2) and supporting radio systems. Airspace 1-35. A division airspace element is responsible for all aspects of Army airspace control in support of division operations. During planning, the division airspace control working group supports the division airspace element’s efforts to integrate Army and joint airspace users operating in division-assigned airspace. The airspace element collaborates with higher, subordinate, and external airspace elements to deconflict airspace requirements. The airspace element accomplishes these tasks in accordance with the joint force commander’s (JFC) ACP, the ACO, division appendix 10 to annex C, other airspace directives, and the division commander’s priorities and risk guidance. The airspace element is responsible for developing and integrating all division airspace user requirements into the daily unit airspace plan. The JAGIC personnel of the airspace element are under the direction of the division chief of operations. Four of the airspace element’s members serve in the JAGIC to support current operations. The three JAGIC positions manned by airspace element personnel are the airspace officer, airspace NCO, and airspace control Soldier. Airspace Officer 1-36. The JAGIC airspace officer is responsible for integrating all division airspace users in the assigned airspace and for coordinating airspace requirements above the division area. Division airspace control includes sequencing and prioritizing airspace use for field artillery, Army aviation, UAS, air defense artillery, and electronic warfare assets. The airspace officer validates and approves immediate ACMREQs in the division. The airspace officer works closely with the ASOC airspace manager (ASM) to integrate all joint airspace users (including CAS and AI) operating in division-assigned airspace. The airspace officer also ensures that airspace control information and decisions are shared with the COIC. The airspace officer with the support of the airspace control NCO ensures that the COIC has the current tailored airspace control overlay. Airspace Noncommissioned Officer 1-37. The airspace NCO leads the effort to integrate current operations airspace use, maintains the airspace control graphics portion of the division COP, and assists the airspace element as required in the development of the unit airspace plan. The airspace NCO coordinates with JAGIC personnel to ensure ACM statuses are current for all mission and airspace requirements (See figure A-1) and that all ACMs are integrated into the airspace control overlay in TAIS. The NCO builds ACMs to support immediate joint air operations, surface- to-surface fires, Army aviation, and other airspace users to meet dynamic mission requirements within the division assigned airspace. The airspace NCO ensures these measures are deconflicted with other airspace users in accordance with established priorities and risk guidance. The airspace NCO, in coordination with the ASM, confirms airspace deconfliction for fires missions controlled by the JAGIC using the TAIS workstation and radios. 1-38. The airspace NCO is responsible for producing the airspace control overlay, the airspace control portion of the division COP, and maintaining the digital unit airspace plan. The airspace NCO builds the airspace control overlay by merging the current approved theater ACO with ACMs in the division assigned airspace that are not included in the theater ACO. These include immediate short duration coordinating measures such as informal ACAs or ACMs not normally included in the ACO. The airspace control overlay should be tailored for the division to include only the coordination measures necessary for controlling division operations. The airspace NCO disseminates the airspace control overlay using the most appropriate method which varies by receiving system. These include: maintaining an active TAIS-to-TAIS link to subordinate units’ TAIS, publishing the airspace control overlay to the Distributed Dissemination System (DDS) for information systems that use DDS, using the ACO publishing selection, and sending direct United States message text format (USMTF) messages for select information systems that either may not use DDS, such as JADOCS, or benefit from a direct USMTF message update such as AFATDS. Note, sending the airspace control overlay message using the USMTF message to AFATDS ensures that AFATDS will