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  officer categorizes and is the approval authority for the release of military information to foreign government
  representatives. Commanders and staffs must understand what information to share with mission partners to
  accomplish the mission. Commanders and staffs need to understand which U.S. systems can and cannot
  communicate with mission partners’ systems due to levels of classification. Once the multinational
  commander establishes MPE requirements, the staff plans for establishing the MPN tailored to information
  requirements of mission partners.
  MISSION PARTNER NETWORK PLANNING
  3-21. Planning challenges occur with the MPN in multinational operations. The creation of an expeditionary
  MPE with an associated MPN supports required planning, training, and the conduct of operations.
  Commanders expect expeditionary MPEs to exist only during the mission and partners to be the only ones
  contributing to, supported by, or providing support to the specific mission. Planners tailor each specific
  expeditionary MPE MPN topology for operations based on an operational environment and specific mission
  partners information-sharing requirements. This expeditionary MPE allows connectivity and reachback to
  the enterprise MPE. (Refer to ATP 6-02.61 and ATP 6-02.62 for more information on planning MPNs.)
  3-22. Key Army requirements to implementing an expeditionary MPE include the following:
  • Rapidly configuring and deploying an MPE MPN to support a new operation with a unique mix of
  mission partners, mission requirements, and objectives.
  • Standardizing information technology services across U.S. MPE contributions to eliminate
  duplication. Such services might include network operations, data handling and protection, user
  access and permissions, and network security.
  • Standardizing common services—such as voice over internet protocol, email, chat, file sharing, and
  video teleconferencing—to ensure access and usability for all mission partners.
  • Ensuring cybersecurity measures meet security objectives whether implemented by the Army or a
  mission partner and are balanced against the need for access and flow of information.
  • Assigning and managing appropriate privileges and providing user access to mission communities
  of interest.
  • Considering and implementing privacy controls across the multinational force to account for
  mission partner privacy laws to protect personally identifiable information and personal health
  information.
  • Enabling authorized mission partner access to the enterprise MPE and permitted communities of
  interest data enclaves, with appropriate access controls and data guards to prevent unauthorized
  access or data spillage.
  • Integrating electromagnetic spectrum operations within MPE planning and implementation.
  • Providing a means to coordinate and convert datum, formats, and projections of geospatial data and
  information to develop a base map to support a COP, common reporting, and geospatial foundation
  data.
  • Implementing structured, tailorable, and intuitive data management, IM construct, and KM
  construct to facilitate information sharing.
  • Developing and implementing technical and procedural dimension solutions to integrate Army-joint
  mission partner ground, air, and space operations. The solution must address—
  ▪ Air support requests, air space control measures, and terminal attack guidance among mission
  partners.
  ▪ Integration of surface fires, rotary-wing aviation, and fixed-wing aviation among mission
  partners.
  ▪ Integration of surface, unmanned aircraft, rotary-wing, fixed-wing, and space-based ISR
  capabilities across the collection spectrum.
  ▪ Integration of air and missile defense capabilities with all mission partners to engage hostile air
  assets (such as manned and unmanned aircraft, and missiles) and in accordance with planning
  guidance.
  TRANSITION PLANNING
  3-23. Transitions are conditions based, not time based. Transitions are a process rather than a specific event.
  Commanders and their staff should think through the strategic, operational, and tactical situations; assets and