text: Chapter 2
  threat or environmental concerns to the isolated person and the recovery force, and evaluate likely areas for
  recovery and evasion. The intelligence staff integrates closely with the movement and maneuver functional
  cell during operations.
  Fires Cell
  2-17. The fires functional cell and its elements (fire support element, electronic warfare, field artillery
  intelligence officer, and the Air Force tactical air control party) provide staff support to joint and Army
  fires. The fires functional cell coordinates missions to enable personnel recovery tasks. Fires can prevent
  the enemy from observing or capturing the isolated person or group and protect the recovery force as it
  accomplishes its missions. The fires functional cell coordinates the capability to destroy, neutralize, or
  suppress enemy targets near isolated personnel. The cell also has the ability to clear fires to support
  recovery operations. The fires cell integrates its efforts with higher, lower, and adjacent fires elements and
  with all elements within the staff. Through its representatives in the current operations integration cell, the
  fires cell is responsible for the input of fires information into the common operational picture so the
  commander and staff can develop situational awareness.
  Protection Cell
  2-18. The protection functional cell is responsible for integrating or coordinating tasks and systems that fall
  under the protection warfighting function. The protection cell advises commanders on the priorities for
  protection and coordinates the implementation and sustainment of protective measures to protect assets
  according to the commander’s priorities. One of the protection cell’s primary tasks and responsibilities is to
  integrate personnel recovery into the operations process with the personnel recovery coordination center.
  Personnel recovery officers are a part of the protection functional cell at echelons above brigade. When
  directed, its responsibility extends beyond the headquarters and the chain of command to include
  noncombatants, physical assets, and information. During an isolating event, the protection cell and its
  personnel recovery staff have the primary responsibility to integrate or coordinate personnel recovery
  activities into planning and execution. The protection cell becomes one of two focal points (the movement
  and maneuver cell is the other) for completing the personnel recovery tasks: report, locate, support,
  recovery, and reintegrate discussed in paragraphs 1-45 through 1-74. (See ADRP 3-37 for more
  information on the protection cell and tasks.)
  Sustainment Cell
  2-19. The sustainment functional cell supports the commander, the unit, the recovery force, and isolated
  persons. The sustainment cell is responsible for integrating sustainment and related activities into all phases
  of personnel recovery operations. Related activities include supply, maintenance, transportation, personnel,
  finance, and operational contract support. The cell coordinates its capabilities to ensure freedom of action,
  extend operational reach, and prolong endurance of the force. It provides information and updates on the
  state of its components and their impact on planned or current personnel recovery activities, the most
  important of which is unit accountability. The sustainment cell is responsible for coordinating the logistic,
  personnel services, resourcing, and health service support for the recovery forces. Finally, it provides the
  support through units to the recovery forces to facilitate rescue and return of isolated personnel to friendly
  control. Its responsibilities extend to reintegration when the sustainment functional cell supports all efforts
  to return the formerly isolated person or group to duty or reassignment.
  Integrating Cells
  2-20. By definition, the three integrating cells—plans, future operations, and current operations
  integration—are responsible for collecting the information to support the tasks and purposes of the
  command (see figure 1-2, page 1-3). Based on three planning horizons—short, mid, and long—these
  integrating cells coordinate daily with the commander, functional staff sections, personnel and special staff,
  and the other integrating staff sections (including the meetings that serve as ad hoc integrating elements).
  These coordination responsibilities occur in general operations and specific missions, including personnel
  recovery. The integrating cells responsibilities are both horizontal (within the headquarters) and vertical (up
  and down the chain of command).