text: Chapter 10
  integrated with the brigade staff sections and higher echelons. The ADAM cell maintains a relationship with
  higher airspace control elements and with supporting air traffic services elements.
  10-29. The ADAM cell provides oversight of brigade UAS operations. ADAM/brigade aviation element
  personnel may assist in mission planning, though planning is generally conducted at maneuver battalion or
  UAS platoon level. ADAM cell personnel must maintain continuous awareness of UAS operations as UASs
  at division and brigade levels tend to be used for multiple missions and need to be able to maneuver over the
  battlefield with relatively few restrictions.
  10-30. Airspace deconfliction is conducted by ADA, field artillery, and aviation Soldiers to mitigate
  potential fratricide of aircraft and other friendly air users and minimize the interruption of ongoing operations.
  Such operations include aircraft transiting the area, ADA forces conducting engagements of air or missile
  threats, or field artillery units executing fire support missions. The ADA, field artillery, and aviation Soldiers,
  enabled by the common air picture, maintain situational awareness. They are cognizant of the locations,
  plans, and activities of other users to enable the greatest use of the airspace with minimal conflicts. Where
  potential conflicts might exist, the ADAM cell facilitates the commander’s priority efforts.
  10-31. Airspace must be cleared to allow uncontested operations by the multitude of airspace users,
  avoiding time and space conflicts. ADAM cell personnel contact various airspace control agencies for
  clearance. These agencies include the Air Force control and reporting center, radar approach control, and air
  traffic control agencies. Responsibilities of these agencies are generally defined by the established
  coordinating altitude; a coordinating altitude is an airspace coordinating measure that uses altitude to separate
  users and as the transition between different airspace control elements (JP 3-52). The majority of all fires
  exceeds the coordinating altitude and therefore must be cleared by the control and reporting center and radar
  approach control. Clearance must be obtained from the control and reporting center because it controls
  tactical military aircraft, and from the radar approach control because it has control of commercial and non-
  tactical military aircraft. Air traffic control agencies control their defined airspace below the coordinating
  altitude. Once each agency clears its airspace, the ADAM cell can acknowledge that the airspace is cleared
  for the designated operation.
  ENGAGEMENT OPERATIONS
  10-32. The ADAM cell has limited engagement operations responsibilities, as it is not in the kill chain and
  does not exercise battle management of ADA units or combined arms for air defense elements. Its primary
  functions in engagement operations are to disseminate AMD data to maneuver forces, transmit early warning
  and general air threat information provided by supporting sensors, and to inform the ADAFCO and higher
  Army echelons of air threats operating in the BCT’s area and subsequent engagement results, as appropriate.
  10-33. ADAM cell personnel interface with the ADAFCO at a regional and/or sector air defense command
  center for the positional information on projected air threats and to provide the status of engagements. The
  ADAM cell may also link to an ADA task force or task-organized battery if one is located in or near the
  BCT’s area of operations for positional information.
  10-34. ADAM cell personnel provide the linkage between the AMD authorities and maneuver forces
  conducting AMD engagements, generally in self-defense. ADAM cell personnel transmit air defense
  warnings, ROE, weapons control status, and other air defense procedural control measures to aviation
  elements and fire support officers at battalion and company levels for further transmission to Soldiers at those
  levels. These procedural controls allow Soldiers, to include maneuver Stinger teams, to conduct engagements
  of air threats without further authorization.
  10-35. ADAM cells at the BCT and higher levels are involved in the deliberate targeting process through
  participation in the targeting working groups, targeting board, and assessment working groups. The ADAM
  cell supports the collection of information to confirm or deny potential named areas of interest through the
  use of ADA sensors and to nominate targets for attack operations. The ADAM cell may also support attack
  operations (counterfire) in the brigade area by transmitting sensor back plot information (information that
  identifies the point of origin of incoming fires). Sensor data is forwarded to fire support officers for execution
  of immediate fires.