text: Airspace Control—Planning and Preparation
  * Integrate airspace use within the area of operations.
  * Develop ACMs to support planned operations.
  * Develop the airspace control appendix to the operation annex.
  Determine Integrated Airspace User Requirements
  3-29. During COA development, airspace control elements at all echelons solicit airspace user requirements
  from each of the functional and integrating cells as they develop airspace plans that support each COA.
  During COA analysis, airspace elements modify and synchronize each airspace plan to support each COA.
  Once the commander has selected a COA, they perform the final integration of airspace user requirements.
  Commanders submit the necessary ACMs, proposed risk guidance, and airspace priorities to higher
  headquarters for approval and integration into the higher headquarters UAP. Early and timely airspace
  planning at all echelons is a necessity. Airspace element personnel in Army operating forces remain actively
  and continually engaged with all higher echelons (such as joint force commander, joint force air component
  commander, AADC, and airspace control authority) while preparing key airspace planning documents. By
  staying engaged, these personnel ensure documents accommodate all Army airspace requirements and
  procedures and that airspace used by other components does not inadvertently constrain Army operations.
  Develop Airspace Usage Priorities
  3-30. Army airspace elements develop airspace usage priorities. First, the airspace elements determine and
  confirm the commander’s intent and guidance, mission priorities, and risk guidance for airspace utilization.
  Then they examine pertinent airspace orders, directives, and the ground commander’s concept of operations
  to develop recommended airspace usage priorities according to ground operations and ACA directives.
  Lastly, they synchronize plans, orders, and special instructions to facilitate current operations and future
  planning to promote situational understanding and to detail the future integration decision basis. The echelon
  commander’s priority of airspace use prominently appears in Appendix 10 (Airspace Control) to Annex C
  (Operations) of the respective echelon operation plans and orders.
  Coordinate Air Traffic Service, Sensor Emplacement, and Data Links
  3-31. Controlling assigned airspace over the very large corps AO given large numbers of non-corps airspace
  users would fully occupy the JAGIC and distract from enabling joint and Army fires supporting corps
  operations.
  Determine Combat Identification Authority and Procedures for Airspace Users
  3-32. The AADP (see paragraph 3-6) contains the combat identification authority and associated procedures.
  The AMD element at the corps and division level, supported by the airspace element, makes inputs into the
  AADP. Based on this plan, the AMD element uses combat identification criteria to process and assign tracks
  as friend, neutral, hostile, or unknown. The AADP details—
  * The authorities delegated to AMD fire controllers in individual areas of operations.
  * The authorities delegated to execute identification of tracks in the joint data network.
  * The airspace element’s capability to provide identification friend or foe, precise position location
  information, and visual identification.
  * The locations, number, and type of AMD sensors employed in the area of operations.
  * The completeness of the low-level air picture.
  3-33. The AMD element analyzes information from these documents. It determines if higher echelons retain
  combat identification authority or are delegated to lower echelons. If delegated to lower echelons, the AMD
  element determines whether the information is suitable for determining the identification of tracks in a unit’s
  area of operations. AMD personnel determine whether to further delegate the responsibility of combat
  identification to subordinate units or retain at the highest tactical level.