text: Operational Environment Overview
  SECTION I – CORE COMPETENCIES AND FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
  1-5. The Army’s reliance on networked systems and weapons necessitates highly trained forces to protect
  warfighting systems and networks dependent upon access to cyberspace and the EMS. Cyberspace and the
  EMS are heavily congested due to the high volume of friendly, neutral, and adversary use, and contested due
  to adversary actions.
  1-6. Adversaries continue to develop sophisticated weapons and networked systems that project power
  through or depend on cyberspace and the EMS. The Army employs cyberspace and EW capabilities as part of
  a joint and combined arms approach to defeat threat activities in cyberspace and the EMS, protect friendly
  forces, and enable friendly freedom of action across the conflict continuum. Army cyberspace and EW forces
  apply the following core competencies and underlying fundamental principles to ensure friendly forces gain
  and maintain positions of relative advantage.
  CORE COMPETENCIES
  1-7. Cyberspace forces and EW professionals are organized, trained, and equipped to provide the following
  core competencies that deliver essential and enduring capabilities to the Army—
  * Enable situational understanding.
  * Protect friendly personnel and capabilities.
  * Deliver effects.
  CREATE UNDERSTANDING
  1-8. Cyberspace forces execute cyberspace intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance in and through
  the information environment to identify and understand adversary networks, systems, and processes. This
  information enables commanders to understand adversary capabilities and vulnerabilities, thereby enhancing
  the commanders’ ability to prioritize and deliver effects.
  1-9. EW professionals surveil the EMS to collect combat information used to characterize adversary use of
  the EMS and understand the integration of adversary emitter systems arrays at echelon. This information
  enables understanding friendly vulnerabilities and threat capabilities while allowing commanders to prioritize
  and deliver effects.
  PROTECT FRIENDLY PERSONNEL AND CAPABILITIES
  1-10. Cyberspace forces defend networks, warfighting platforms, capabilities, and data from ongoing or
  imminent malicious cyberspace activity. By protecting critical networks and systems, cyberspace forces help
  maintain the Army’s ability to conduct operations and project power across all domains.
  1-11. EW forces, in coordination with the G-6 or S-6 and in support of the commander’s directive, implement
  and enhance measures to protect friendly personnel, facilities, warfighting platforms, capabilities, and
  equipment from adverse effects in the EMS. EW forces recommend measures to mask or control friendly
  emissions from enemy detection and deny adversaries the ability to locate and target friendly formations. EW
  forces detect and mitigate enemy attacks in or through the EMS to maintain the Army’s ability to conduct
  operations and project power across all domains.
  DELIVER EFFECTS
  1-12. Cyberspace forces deliver cyberspace effects against adversary networks, systems, and weapons.
  These effects enhance the Army’s ability to conduct operations, reduce adversary combat power, and project
  power across all domains.
  1-13. EW professionals deliver effects in the EMS against adversary networks, systems, and weapons. These
  actions reduce adversary combat power, protect friendly forces, and enhance friendly forces and weapons’
  lethality.