text: Roles, Responsibilities, Relationships, and Organizations
  * Ensuring IO-related information is updated in the common operational picture.
  * Integrating external augmentation.
  3-15. Not all units are authorized an IO officer or element. Commanders may, therefore, adapt their staff
  structure to ensure IO objectives and IRC tasks are accomplished and appoint an officer or non-commissioned
  officer to perform the duties of the IO officer, outlined in this manual. Task organizing for IO is situation-,
  mission- and commander-dependent.
  3-16. A key responsibility of the IO officer is to understand the command relationship with IRC units and
  build rapport accordingly. Building rapport typically begins with a visit to the IRC site location, an orientation
  on the IRC’s potential contributions and limitations, and a collaborative determination of ways to optimize
  the IRC’s effects with other IRCs through synchronization. This rapport-building is ongoing and primarily
  channeled through the IO working group, although one-on-one conversations will also occur.
  3-17. When necessary, the IO officer must be ready to lead the planning and employment of select IRCs not
  clearly managed by a capability owner or proponent. Examples include, but are not limited to: military
  deception; OPSEC; and Presence, Posture, and Profile. The IO officer is also ready to coordinate for and
  integrate IRCs that are only found at higher echelons, such as cyberspace operations.
  INFORMATION-RELATED CAPABILITIES
  3-18. IO seeks to optimize the combined effects of selected IRCs through effective planning,
  synchronization, and assessment. While a single IRC can affect the information environment to friendly
  advantage, synchronized IRC activities and operations can amplify and unify each other’s effects and produce
  more efficacious and durable results. For example, variation and repetition of actions and messages tends to
  increase their overall effect, if not their acceptance. Using different IRCs, in combination, to execute actions
  and deliver messages, provides this requisite variation.
  3-19. IRCs are diverse. In some cases, they are part of the force structure, such as military information
  support operations (MISO) units, civil affairs units, or combat camera units. Coordination of these IRCs will
  be with the IRC unit commander, G-3 (S-3), or designed representative. In other cases, IRCs are tasks or
  activities managed by a staff section, such as military deception, OPSEC, or special technical operations.
  Coordination of these IRCs will occur with the staff element's director or a specified action officer.
  3-20. All IRCs units work collaboratively with the IO officer, as well as with other IRCs, to facilitate their
  synchronization into the IO portion of the concept of operations, also called the scheme of IO. They do this
  primarily through the IO working group but utilize any venue or engagement to advance their capability’s
  contribution to the total effort. Most importantly, they articulate their capability’s strengths, limitations, and
  risks to the commander and staff to facilitate decision making about their employment and synchronization.
  INFORMATION OPERATIONS SUPPORT UNITS
  3-21. The G-3 (S-3), with the assistance of the IO officer, and in concert with organic IRCs, serves as the
  entry point for external IRCs (excluding public affairs) and IO support units, assets and resources and ensures
  their integration into overall planning, preparation, execution, and assessment. Among the support
  organizations that the IO officer helps the G-3 (S-3) to integrate are the 1st Information Operations Command
  (Land) (1st IO Command) and the reserve component theater information operations groups, which provide
  a range of IO subject-matter expertise, skills augmentation, and reachback.
  1ST INFORMATION OPERATIONS COMMAND (LAND)
  3-22. The 1st IO Command, a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security
  Command, is a brigade-sized, multi-compo unit. Under the operational control and tasking authority of the
  U.S. Army Cyber Command, it provides uniquely tailored IO and cyberspace operations (CO) planning,
  synchronization, assessment, and reachback support to the Army and other military forces. Consisting of a
  Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment and two battalions, it augments military forces with tailored IO
  and cyberspace operations support provided through deployable teams, opposing forces support, reachback