text: Chapter 3
  3-75. Understanding the purpose and potential decisions of each meeting and activity is equally important.
  This understanding allows members of the staff and subordinate commanders to provide appropriate input to
  influence decisions. The battle rhythm enables—
  ⚫ A commander’s decision making.
  ⚫ A routine for staff interaction and coordination.
  ⚫ Interaction between the commander and staff.
  ⚫ Staff synchronization across time, space, and purpose.
  ⚫ Planning by the staff.
  3-76. In conjunction with the integrating processes, working groups—groupings of predetermined staff
  representatives who meet to provide analysis, coordinate, and provide recommendations for a particular
  purpose or function (FM 6-0)—are important in integrating and synchronizing intelligence into operations.
  Effective integration and synchronization require the entire staff’s full participation in the information
  collection working group as well as the intelligence staff’s full participation in the other working groups,
  especially the targeting, CEMA, and protection working groups.
  3-77. EMS actions, as discussed in paragraph 1-103, provide a good example of the criticality of detailed
  staff coordination and effective working groups. Coordinating and deconflicting SIGINT collection, EW
  operations, and spectrum management connect to executing optimal information collection, CEMA
  integration, targeting, and information advantage activities. The intelligence and CEMA staffs must
  collaborate with the rest of the staff and across working groups, especially the CEMA and targeting working
  groups.
  3-78. Working groups address various subjects depending on the situation and echelon. Brigade and battalion
  headquarters have fewer working groups than higher echelons. Working groups may convene daily, weekly,
  monthly, or intermittently depending on the subject, situation, and echelon. Typical working groups, at corps
  and division headquarters, scheduled within the unit’s battle rhythm include—
  ⚫ Assessment. ⚫ Knowledge management.
  ⚫ Civil-military operations (CMO). ⚫ Protection.
  ⚫ CEMA. ⚫ Sustainment.
  ⚫ Information collection. ⚫ Targeting.
  ⚫ Information operations. ⚫ Airspace control.
  Note. Time permitting, some units conduct a targeting coordination board that unites key members
  of the CEMA, information collection, targeting, and other working groups to obtain the
  commander’s validation and approval of targeting within current and future operations.