text: Army Aviation’s Role in Unified Land Operations
  ENABLE COMMAND AND CONTROL OVER EXTENDED RANGES
  AND COMPLEX TERRAIN
  1-35. Army Aviation enhances C2 by enabling the maneuver commander to better understand, visualize,
  describe, direct, lead, and assess operations over extended ranges and in complex terrain. Army Aviation
  enhances shared understanding of the OE through—
  * Execution of movement to contact, attack, reconnaissance and security operations.
  * Accurate and timely reporting via long range communications.
  * Dedicated C2 support platforms.
  * UAS communications relay packages.
  * Distribution of full motion video sensor information.
  * Management of controlled airspace through air traffic services (ATS).
  * Employment of aviation liaisons.
  * Embedded aviation staff elements at brigade and above headquarters.
  * Battlefield circulation of key leaders.
  1-36. Attack and reconnaissance units conducting movement to contact, attack, reconnaissance, and
  security operations reporting via long-range communications and full motion video provide the maneuver
  commander with timely and accurate information to enable the commander to understand and visualize the
  terrain, friendly and enemy forces. Army Aviation liaisons and embedded staffs assist the maneuver
  commander with visualizing and describing how best to employ Army Aviation as a member of the
  combined arms team. Use of Army Aviation dedicated C2 support aircraft enables the maneuver
  commander to position forward to visualize, direct, lead, and assess ongoing operations. MUM-T enables
  the maneuver commander to visualize and assess operations through timely BDA and detailed
  reconnaissance throughout the depth of the AO, and across multiple domains.
  SECTION IV – ARMY AVIATION IN THE OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORK
  1-37. To clearly visualize and articulate Army Aviation operations, commanders apply the four
  components of the operational framework. This framework is a cognitive tool to develop shared
  understanding and describe the commander’s visualization of how Army Aviation operates in time, space,
  purpose, and resources while considering the physical, temporal, virtual, and cognitive aspects in an AO,
  area of influence, and area of interest. The following four components of the operational framework do not
  limit any of the seven core competencies of Army Aviation:
  * Commanders assign subordinate units an AO for the conduct of operations.
  * Commanders designate close, deep, support, and consolidation areas.
  * Commanders establish decisive, shaping, and sustaining operations to articulate an operation in
  terms of purpose.
  * Commanders designate main and supporting efforts to designate shifting and prioritization of
  resources.
  AREA OF OPERATIONS
  1-38. The AO is a designated area that commanders are assigned to conduct operations. From this
  designated area, they assign subordinate units smaller AOs based on the commander’s visualization of the
  operation. Smaller unit AOs are established with regard to the unit’s ability to influence what happens
  within the area. Within the AO, commanders use control measures to coordinate fires and maneuver and
  organize operations.
  1-39. When task-organized appropriately, Army Aviation battalions or brigades can be assigned an AO and
  serve as the maneuver task force headquarters conducting reconnaissance and security operations, or during
  offensive or defensive operations in an economy of force. Assigning an AO to an aviation unit streamlines
  aviation maneuver and enables detailed integration with supporting assets such as joint fires or FW