text: Army Air and Missile Defense
  seek to find out-of-sector opportunities to defeat friendly AMD defenses. Out-of-sector is defined as that
  part of the air and missile defense footprint which cannot be covered by a sensor or defended by a
  shooter. Some ADA systems can provide 360-degree coverage but are limited in the altitude which can be
  covered or defended. Other ADA systems are limited in azimuth (sectored).
  MOBILITY
  1-24. Mobility is a quality or capability of military forces which permits them to move from place to place
  while retaining the ability to fulfill their primary mission (JP 3-17). ADA units should have mobility that
  matches that of their supported units or defended assets. Current ADA units cannot match the cross-country
  mobility of maneuvering forces. However, Avenger systems can move with and maintain defense of the
  maneuver force’s semi-fixed assets, and Patriot and THAAD units have sufficient mobility to move from
  position to position to continuously extend protection over the supported force on the move. Mobility of
  ADA units increases their survivability as well as that of their supported assets.
  INTEGRATION
  1-25. Integration is the arrangement of military forces and their actions to create a force that operates by
  engaging as a whole (JP 1). As an AMD principle, integration constitutes the combination of ADA and other
  joint counterair forces, systems, functions, processes, and information acquisition and distribution required
  to efficiently and effectively perform the mission. Integration combines separate systems, capabilities, or
  functions in such a way that they can operate singly or in concert without adversely affecting other elements.
  Integration has three sub-elements. Each of these can be applied to the Army architecture or larger joint or
  multinational AMD architecture.
  * Functional integration consists of those activities associated with the allocation, distribution, and
  synchronization of AMD functions into the Army’s theater architecture. These activities are the
  basis for establishing both the information required and the means to acquire, produce, exchange,
  and distribute that information for planning, coordination, and execution purposes.
  * Operational integration consists of those activities associated with enabling and optimizing the
  performance and collective effectiveness and efficiency of AMD within the total theater resources.
  * Architectural integration consists of those activities associated with establishing, assuring, and
  enhancing the information interchange within the AMD component elements (organizations,
  weapons, and communications systems and components) and with the Army theater information
  architecture (hardware, software, operations, and personnel).
  FLEXIBILITY
  1-26. Flexibility is the employment of a versatile mix of capabilities, formations, and equipment for
  conducting operations (ADP 3-0). Flexibility enables adaptive forces, facilitates collaborative planning and
  decentralized execution, and fosters individual initiative (ADP 3-0). The AMD principle of mix (see
  paragraph 1-23 above) discusses the combination of ADA systems as task force tailored formations. The
  principle of flexibility is applied in AMD terms primarily within a system’s capability to be adapted to
  different (changing) threat conditions. While ADA systems have a system-centric architecture, each of the
  architectures enables some flexibility to tailor the defense design to METT-TC conditions. Patriot can defeat
  ballistic missile threats, cruise missile, and other air threats. The defense can be tailored to primarily defeat
  a specific threat or to achieve a balance across the full threat set. Balancing across the full threat set may
  result in less than optimal defense against a specific threat set. Likewise, SHORAD systems can optimize
  against a specific threat or balance across their full threat set. The C-RAM system can defeat rockets, artillery,
  and mortars in the air. Optimization against mortars could result in some compromise with its ability to defeat
  larger caliber rockets. System architectures allow for some ability to task force tailor. Additional launchers
  can be assigned to a battery or platoon to attain sufficient mass to defeat anticipated heavy attack scenarios.
  SHORAD systems at battery and platoon can also accept augmentation of sensors. Patriot requires one, and
  only one, radar per battery. Thus, if one radar is insufficient in accordance with METT-TC, an additional
  battery must be incorporated into the defense. Unique C2 capabilities and data link architectures within each
  of the systems limit task force tailoring across systems.