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Organic and Task-Organized Structure 09 November 2021 FM 3-81 2-29 Table 2-6. Military intelligence mission planning and capabilities (continued) Military Intelligence Company (continued) • Reconnaissance and surveillance analysis from data collected and provided by the Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System Platoon. • Provides intelligence support to the commanders as required to support combat operations. • Conduct Intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination. Legend: AO area of operations MEB maneuver enhancement brigade SIGINT signals intelligence Note. The considerations presented in the mission planning and capabilities tables primarily describe potential employment and capabilities of the described organization. These notional considerations do not relieve planners of the requirement to perform detailed mission analysis to support the identification and employment of specific capabilities required to accomplish the MEB’s missions AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY 2-40. Air and missile defense is the direct (active and passive) defensive actions taken to destroy, nullify, or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air and ballistic missile threats against friendly forces and assets (JP 3-01). More precisely, ADA is the dedicated Army systems, personnel, and forces that provide active, land-based defense against air and missile attacks. ADA forces execute AMD operations under the joint counterair operational framework based on the integration of offensive and defensive counterair operations. Offensive counterair are offensive operations to destroy or neutralize enemy aircraft, missile launch platforms, and their supporting structures and systems both before and after launch, and as close to their source as possible (JP 3-01). Defensive counterair are all defensive measures designed to neutralize or destroy enemy forces attempting to penetrate or attack through friendly airspace (JP 3-01). Defensive counterair consists of two operational elements: Active AMD operations. Direct defensive actions taken to destroy, nullify, or reduce the effectiveness of air and missile threats against friendly forces and assets. Active AMD includes air defense (defensive measures designed to destroy attacking aircraft or aerodynamic missiles, or to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of such attack [JP 3-01]) and ballistic missile defense (defensive measures designed to destroy attacking enemy missiles, or to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of such attack [JP 3-01]). Passive AMD operations. All measures, other than active AMD, taken to minimize the effectiveness of hostile air and ballistic missile threats against friendly forces and critical assets. These measures include detection, warning, camouflage, concealment, deception, dispersion, hardening, and the use of protective construction. 2-41. During support area operations the designated support area land owner may be tasked-organized an ADA element (short-range air defense [SHORAD]) to counter low-altitude unmanned aircraft systems, high- speed fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft, reconnaissance, intelligence, surveillance and target acquisition assets. Table 2-7 provides an overview of the ADA battalion (Avenger) capabilities that may be a tenant unit of the corps or division support area. For additional information on ADA battalions (SHORAD) see FM 3-01.