Download the full document here: No. 25-987, Multi-Domain Operations Range Guide for Company Grade through Field Grade Leaders (Apr 25) [PDF - 4.1 MB]
Multi-Domain Operational (MDO) lessons learned from recent conflicts demonstrate innovation in amassing capabilities where quantity has a quality all its own. Low density, high demand, expensive, and exquisite systems, once identified, are quickly removed off the battlefield at a scale and pace exceeding the other's ability to rapidly reconstitute. During the Army’s last two decades of combat, it was practically alone in the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS); and yet units still experienced EMS fratricide – jamming themselves. Today, the EMS is congested, contested, and complex affecting a commander’s scheme of maneuver to command and control. Intelligence, signal, space, and electromagnetic warfare (EW) must be integrated into the fires chain and the protection warfighting function (WfF). Commanders must be able to see themselves to control their emissions and defeat the enemy’s ability to sense, identify, locate, and target them. This is critically important when observations from current conflicts around the world show there are eight minutes from identification in the EMS to artillery impacting on the detected location of said emission. The Army’s ability to counter these innovative and emergent threats not only requires cutting-edge, modular, integrated equipment supported by an agile Intelligence and EW software reprogramming enterprise, but an overarching training strategy that informs all WfF. Commanders will now have an EMS enabled ability to find (adversary Electromagnetic Support (ES)), fix (adversary Electromagnetic Attack (EA)), and finish adversary with lethal fires.
Quarterly Combat Training Center (CTC) observations regularly identify that EW and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) formations are not integrated in the Brigade Combat Team (BCT) scheme of maneuver during rotations. This is primarily due to a lack of understanding of how to incorporate these enablers into individual and collective training at home station. BCTs traditionally either have an organic capability or tasked EW and SIGINT PLT from an EMIB to support their rotation. If these formations are not a part of the BCT’s train up at home station, they will not be incorporated correctly during the CTC rotation. Military Intelligence Training Strategy (MITS) and Cyber Electromagnetic Warfare Training Standards (CEWTS) provide the framework for Military Intelligence and EW capabilities to certify. The final tier of this training strategy is integration at the BCT level.
The U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence (USAICoE) and Cyber Center of Excellence (CCoE) developed the MDO Range Guide to inform and enable the training of Soldiers, crews, units, and commanders at home station in intelligence and electromagnetic warfare (I&EW) specific tasks. It draws from the MITS, CEWTS, Training Circular 25-8: Army Ranges, and other authoritative documents. The guide identifies the resources, training aids, key enablers, approvals, and local authorities necessary to plan, direct, execute, and evaluate units performing specific missions, development of training objectives through specification of minimum standards of performance, and in assessing MDO training needs. In support of the Army’s campaign of learning, it stands as a living document and takes a building block approach, categorizing missions into different levels reflecting different degrees of combat readiness. For each mission, an evaluation training outline describes the concept of operation, general conditions under which the mission is performed, the training and evaluation standards by which performance of the mission is measured, performance-oriented training objectives, and support requirements such as targets, training aids, spectrum, air space, threat emulators, and maneuver areas to conduct training or evaluation relative to the mission-related intelligence and EMSO tasks. The guide offers several uses cases for Soldier and units to reference, as well as outlines the roles, duties, staff coordination, and approval timelines required to execute successful training.
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