Chapter 11Support to the Warfighting Functions
SMO enables and supports the Army's warfighting functions described in ADP 3‐0, Unified Land Operations: mission command, intelligence, fires, movement and maneuver, protection, and sustainment. A warfighting function is a group of tasks and systems (people, organizations, information, and processes) united by a common purpose that commanders use to accomplish missions and training objectives. This chapter links Army SMO to the warfighting functions; it also describes how SMO supports and enables commander's efforts as they exercise mission command.
Figure 11.1 Spectrum situational awareness system and CJSMPT support to mission command. From Techniques for Spectrum Management Operations, Dec 2015. Headquarters, Department of the Army.
11.1 Movement and Maneuver
11.1. The movement and maneuver warfighting function are the related tasks and systems that move forces to achieve a position of advantage in relation to the enemy. SMO enables movement and maneuver by maintaining freedom of action within the electromagnetic spectrum. Commanders are able to leverage the spectrum manager's advice to provide lethal and non‐lethal effects against enemy combat capability, protection from adversary use of the spectrum. SMO supports movement and maneuver through—
- Spectrum resource planning, analysis, and simulation to determine spectrum ...
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