text: Chapter 4
  RECONNAISSANCE MANAGEMENT
  4-22. The Cavalry unit commander and staffs manage assets by cueing, mixing, and redundancy.
  Reconnaissance management allows the unit to collect the most critical information with multiple
  perspectives at the appropriate time. The BCT S-3 manages and synchronizes all capabilities and units to
  support the brigade and Cavalry squadron execution. Cueing, mixing, and redundancy maximize collection
  efforts and allow the primary focus to be on reconnaissance objectives that may yield the most information.
  The details of cueing, mixing, and redundancy are as follows:
  * Cueing is the integration of one or more types of reconnaissance or surveillance systems to provide
  information that directs follow-on collecting of more detailed information by another system.
  These systems may signal other ground or air reconnaissance assets to investigate specific areas
  in order to confirm, deny, or verify information. For example, a dismounted observation post may
  observe an NAI along avenue of approach 1, while an unmanned ground sensor surveys avenue
  of approach 2. Upon activation of the unmanned ground sensor conducting surveillance of avenue
  of approach 2, the observation post is retasked to observe avenue of approach 2 to confirm or deny
  enemy presence or movement along the avenue of approach.
  * Mixing is using two or more different capabilities to collect against the same information
  requirement. Employing different systems is always desirable when the situation and available
  resources permit. This method increases the probability of collecting information and tends to
  provide more complete information. Mixing can defeat deception attempts by highlighting
  discrepancies in information reported by different collection assets. For example, one observation
  post and one UAS focused on one NAI.
  * Redundancy is using two or more like capabilities to collect against the same information
  requirement. Redundancy improves the chances the reconnaissance element collects the required
  information and provides depth, should one element become compromised. For example, two
  observation posts focused on one NAI.
  4-23. The BCT commander task organizes with additional assets from within or without the Cavalry unit to
  increase the effectiveness and survivability of a Cavalry asset. For example, the BCT task organizes a Cavalry
  squadron with a lasing team, a signal retransmission element, and an ERT to improve fires lethality, increase
  communications range, and enhance mobility capabilities organic to the squadron. (Refer to ADP 3-90 for
  more information.)
  RECONNAISSANCE ASSETS AND CAPABILITIES
  4-24. Although the Cavalry scout directly observing the target is the commander’s most flexible
  reconnaissance asset, the commander maximizes all the collection capabilities and units, manned and
  unmanned, to assess the enemy and the effects of the terrain on enemy and friendly forces. Besides knowing
  the capabilities and limitations of these systems, commanders and staffs understand all systems are
  susceptible to deception and countermeasures.
  4-25. The following assets and capabilities integrate into the information collection effort through cueing,
  mixing, and redundancy. These capabilities provide the commander with critical information at the
  appropriate time, utilizing the fewest assets.
  SENSORS
  4-26. Sensors allow flexibility in economizing aerial, dismounted, or mounted capabilities. Commanders use
  sensors to observe areas where contact may not be expected but is possible, or for surveillance of areas over
  extended periods. Sensors facilitate ground reconnaissance by providing redundancy and confirmation for
  other capabilities and units operating in different areas of the battlefield. They can extend surveillance
  distance between ground reconnaissance and the threat. The commander considers sensor reconnaissance to
  expand the scope of coverage in a larger area of operations, to conduct missions of an extended duration, to
  conduct CBRN reconnaissance, or to cue a more thorough ground or aerial reconnaissance of a given area.