text: Army Aviation’s Role in Unified Land Operations
  PROVIDE ACCURATE AND TIMELY INFORMATION COLLECTION
  1-6. The Army executes intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance through the operations and
  intelligence process and information collection. Information collection is an activity that synchronizes and
  integrates the planning and employment of sensors and assets as well as the processing, exploitation, and
  dissemination of systems in direct support (DS) of current and future operations (FM 3-55). A successful
  information collection effort results in the timely collection and reporting of relevant and accurate
  information, which either supports the production of intelligence or is disseminated as combat information.
  1-7. Army Aviation should be utilized in every step of the information collection planning and execution
  process. Effective planning for aviation capabilities may enable the combined arms team to determine the
  enemy’s intent and answer the commander’s critical information requirements by observation or fighting
  for information as required. This enables the commander to confirm or deny an enemy course of action
  (COA) and concentrate combat power at the time and place of the maneuver commander’s choice to seize
  or retain the initiative.
  1-8. Through the conduct of zone, route, and/or area reconnaissance; movement to contact; or
  reconnaissance in force (when task-organized), Army Aviation provides the commander with accurate and
  timely information on enemy force disposition, composition, strengths, and weaknesses. Army Aviation
  also provides information on population patterns of life, ground routes and mobility corridors, dense urban
  terrain and infrastructure, and man-made or natural obstacles in order to answer a commander’s priority
  intelligence requirements (PIR). In addition to answering PIR, Army Aviation’s speed and flexibility
  provide a unique ability to answer friendly force information requirements for forces that are
  geographically dispersed increasing shared understanding.
  1-9. Army Aviation attack and reconnaissance units conduct reconnaissance as a maneuver force with
  manned and unmanned systems maneuvering interdependently. Manned unmanned teaming (MUM-T) is
  the integrated maneuver of Army Aviation RW and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to conduct
  movement to contact, attack, reconnaissance, and security tasks. MUM-T enables increased depth and
  breadth of aviation reconnaissance and maneuver, increased persistence over the reconnaissance objective,
  increased ability to gain and maintain enemy contact, increased survivability, and more options to develop
  the situation with enhanced maneuver, fires, and command and control (C2).
  1-10. Army Aviation assault units may conduct infiltration and extraction of dismounted reconnaissance
  elements conducting detailed reconnaissance of designated reconnaissance objectives. They may also
  emplace remote sensors on key avenues of approach and terrain features; conduct route, area, and limited
  zone reconnaissance; evacuate captured enemy personnel for intelligence exploitation; or conduct
  continuous resupply of ground reconnaissance elements to enable continuous maximum reconnaissance
  forward.
  1-11. The commander can task Army Aviation units and assets with the mission to provide multi-
  intelligence sensor data and information from manned and unmanned systems to the Army intelligence
  enterprise. Some examples of sensor data include full-motion video, synthetic aperture radar/moving target
  indications, and signals intelligence. To meet these requirements, Army Aviation units must be augmented
  with the appropriate communications capabilities in order to connect to the larger intelligence architecture.
  Signal and military intelligence units coordinate and augment Army Aviation units in order to establish the
  necessary communication connections and implement reporting procedures. Together, these units position
  the communication systems and processing, exploitation, and dissemination capabilities at the most
  effective locations to ensure sensor data and information are effectively analyzed across the Army
  intelligence enterprise.
  PROVIDE REACTION TIME AND MANEUVER SPACE
  1-12. Army Aviation security operations provide the combined arms team early and accurate warning of
  enemy activities, reaction time, and maneuver space to prevent surprise, and the ability to rapidly develop
  the situation upon gaining enemy contact.