text: Airspace Messages, Requests, and Information Displays
  Table D-1. Airspace control system shapes
  TAIS TBMCS Remarks
  Cylinder Circle A cylinder is a circle with three dimensions.
  Route Corridor Route is the same shape as a corridor.
  Orbit Orbit
  Cakes are complex Rad-Arcs.
  Cake/Rad-Arc Rad-Arc
  Polyarc PolyArc
  Polygon Polygon
  Track Track
  Line Line
  TAIS does not have a point shape, rather TAIS uses its airspace control
  Point
  point tool for entering point data.
  Legend
  TAIS Tactical Airspace Integration System
  TBMCS Theater Battle Management Core System
  AIRSPACE SYSTEM PECULIARITIES
  D-12. All effective airspace users know their system defaults, peculiarities, and how their system
  interchanges information between the available systems. Airspace users recognize that any software updates
  to their system may significantly change their “settings.”
  D-13. Each system has peculiarities. TAIS—one of the airspace control system used by air defense airspace
  management/brigade aviation element, the ADAM/BAE,—and airspace elements will parse, display, and run
  conflict checks against all USMTF compatible ACMs. However, the default setting for many ACMs is set to
  not check for conflicts. Operators of TAIS can change the default setting of “conflict check off” based on
  standard operating procedures or orders.
  Note: The critical importance of clarity in the discussion of ACMs and the manifestation of them
  in digital messages cannot be overstated.
  INFORMATION DISPLAYS
  D-14. Information displays (also referred to as overlays) result from messages, either inputted or transmitted,
  into systems that portray a continuous common operational picture. This picture provides commanders with
  situational awareness and situational understanding of the operational area. Commanders use the common
  operational picture to support visualization of the mission. Staff components use it to support their running
  estimates that they continuously update.
  D-15. Airspace elements are responsible for maintaining information displays based on accurate information
  and databases in near-real-time. This includes, but is not limited to the following:
  * Ensuring airspace users disseminate up to date information to appropriate higher, lower, and
  adjacent command posts.
  * Establishing a shared pasteboard for collecting, processing, displaying, and disseminating relevant
  information on the command post of the future system workstation.
  * Preparing a shared plan using the two dimensional application on the command post of the future
  system workstation.
  * Preparing a shared plan using the three dimensional application on the command post of the future
  system workstation.
  D-16. Airspace elements typically publish the airspace control overlay (formerly airspace command and
  control overlay). Airspace control overlays can be digital (containing all data associated with ACMs), or
  graphic (drawn on plastic or paper for use during degraded network operations). Airspace elements typically
  subscribe to these overlays: