text: Chapter 4
  of the OE. While CATs are generally placed under the tactical control of maneuver battalion commanders, the CA
  company headquarters element maintains the ability to develop CAO plans, across BCTs, which are aimed at—
  * Developing civil networks to create effects in the civil component of the OE.
  * Establishing support to governance aimed at increasing civil security, civil control, and local authority.
  * Conducting CMI with local governments, NGOs, and interagency partners.
  4-112. While the CA company provides a great asset to the supported commander by increasing analytical
  capability for understanding the civil component of the OE and adding support to plan and direct CAO, the
  CA company is not as robust a planning and analysis element as the CA battalion. A CA company has the
  ability to displace and move rapidly with its supported BCT, but the CA company is in need of certain life
  support sustainment and force protection.
  4-113. Whether as a CA company headquarters supporting a BCT or CAT supporting maneuver battalions,
  CA company personnel can contribute to and or perform—
  * Mission command of assigned or attached CMOC and CATs.
  * Tactical-level planning, management, coordination, and synchronization of CAO within the
  supported commander’s AO.
  * Assessment of the civil component of the AO of the supported command facilitating integration
  of civil input into the common operational picture of the supported command.
  * Collation, analysis, and fusion of civil information for input to the common operational picture of
  the supported command.
  * Assistance in coordinating IPI, intergovernmental organizations, NGOs, and U.S. assistance and
  resources to support local government as part of CMO.
  4-114. The CA company is a deployable CA command and control node capable of commanding and
  controlling CATs and operating a CMOC. CA companies conduct CR and CE at the tactical level to support
  strategic-, operational-, and tactical-level civil-military objectives capable of—
  * Developing and leveraging civil networks.
  * Conducting CMI to find, disrupt, and defeat hybrid threats in the civil component.
  * Providing an advantage for the USG, allies, and partners.
  * Being task-organized or augmented to form the core of a joint civil-military operations task force
  (JCMOTF) led by a major.
  CIVIL AFFAIRS BATTALION
  4-115. The CA battalion provides all the analytical capacity needed to analyze and evaluate civil network
  information and civil information products by CA companies within their supported command. This analysis
  and evaluation is integrated into planning and command and control processes of the supporting command
  to enable situational understanding and provide for effects in the civil component through targeted CAO.
  4-116. The CA battalion provides direct support CA capabilities to missions in geographic combatant
  command areas of operation. This direct support is provided with emphasis on theater persistent presence
  activities that—
  * Build and employ local, regional, and trans-regional networks.
  * Anticipate and exploit changing conditions in human geography.
  * Implement conflict prevention strategies.
  * Set conditions for successful CAO in support of the requirements for the following:
  Geographic combatant command.
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  Army Service component command.
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  The USG.
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