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Support Area Responsibilities 09 November 2021 FM 3-81 4-17 4-83. The air defense airspace management cell has digital connectivity to theater level with the tactical airspace integration system. Fires and airspace use is deconflicted in the fires cell and air defense airspace management cell. The MEB commander can request airspace coordinating measures, such as unmanned aircraft system holding areas and base camp defense zones, to manage airspace. Key tasks may include coordinating manned and unmanned Army aviation support. 4-84. The air defense airspace management cell continuously plans for and coordinates airspace requirements and monitors operations of all airspace users to support operations and those transiting through the support areas airspace. This continuous situational understanding is critical to ensure that the brigade can react to any situation requiring immediate use of airspace, such as offensive and defensive fires, unplanned unmanned aircraft system launches, or a diversion of aviation assets in real time. STABILITY 4-85. Ultimately, stability is the set of conditions in which a local populace regards its governance institutions as legitimate and its living situation as acceptable and predictable. Actions to maintain or reestablish stability first aim to lessen the level of violence. These actions also aim to enable the functioning of governmental, economic, and societal institutions. Lastly, these actions encourage the general adherence to local laws, rules, and norms of behavior. A stability operation is an operation conducted outside the United States in coordination with other instruments of national power to establish or maintain a secure environment and provide essential governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief (ADP 3-0). 4-86. The MEB may be required to conduct some minimum essential stability tasks for its supported echelon within an assigned support area while concurrent, large-scale combat is occurring in the larger AO of the headquarters they are supporting. The MEB would effectively perform in an economy-of-force role in one area with the relative weight of their effort on stability tasks as other units focus the relative weight of their effort in offensive or defensive tasks in another area. The MEB may be required to conduct minimum essential stability tasks simultaneously with support area operations. See ADP 3-0 and ADP 3-07 for additional information on stability tasks. 4-87. Stability operations are conducted as part of operations outside the United States in coordination with other instruments of national power to maintain or reestablish a safe and secure environment and provide essential governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief. Primary Army stability tasks include the following: Establish civil security. Conduct security cooperation. Provide support to establish civil control. Restore essential services. Provide support to governance. Provide support to economic and infrastructure development. 4-88. When properly task-organized, the MEB can conduct or support stability operations; however, they have little capability to conduct the primary Army stability task of support to governance and economic development. These tasks are conducted in a complementary, reinforcing, and concurrent manner with other agencies or multinational forces. While the stability tasks are essential for success, without complementary inform and influence efforts that explain these actions to the population, success may be unattainable. MOBILITY AND COUNTERMOBILITY 4-89. Mobility is a quality or capability of military forces which permits them to move from place to place while retaining the ability to fulfill their primary mission (JP 3-36). As described in FM 3-90-1, mobility is the key to successful operations. Its major focus is to enable friendly forces to move and maneuver freely on the battlefield or an AO.