text: Multidomain Operations and Intelligence
  Multidomain Task Force
  The multidomain task force (MDTF) is one way that Army units integrate capabilities across
  domains to assist in achieving joint force objectives. An MDTF is an Army brigade-sized task
  force designed to coordinate, integrate, synchronize, and employ cross-domain fires to
  neutralize enemy A2 and AD strategies. MDTF operations allow more options for the joint
  force and a greater degree of freedom of maneuver. The MDTF has the following MI
  capabilities:
  • The MDTF S-2 is the principal staff officer for intelligence and synchronizes the intelligence
  warfighting function.
  • The multidomain effects battalion (MDEB) provides sensing and intelligence support, target
  development, and delivery and synchronization of nonlethal effects to the MDTF. The
  MDEB provides mission C2, planning, analysis, execution as well as company-level staff
  support functions.
  ▪ The MDEB S-2 section performs IPOE to assist the commander and staff’s
  visualization, planning, decision making, and nonkinetic effects employment.
  ▪ The MDEB has an organic MI company that answers the commander’s intelligence
  requirements and conducts SIGINT collection and technical analysis, OSINT,
  intelligence PED, and intelligence analysis to support multidomain operations. The MI
  company also coordinates with the fires cell for target development across the strategic
  contexts to create a relative advantage. (See ATP 2-19.1-1 and ATP 3-93.)
  Note. All Army units conduct multidomain operations, not just MDTFs.
  2-83. Army intelligence supports all aspects of multidomain operations across all echelons—from the
  CCDR and staff to the Army maneuver battalion commander and staff. Joint intelligence supports critical
  joint force objectives such as neutralizing enemy integrated air defenses, destroying long-range surface-to-
  surface fires systems, denying enemy access to a designated area, disrupting enemy C2, protecting friendly
  networks, conducting military deception, or disrupting an enemy’s ability to conduct information warfare.
  These operations are enabled by precise and detailed joint intelligence on threat capabilities and
  vulnerabilities across all domains. Seeing and understanding when and how the joint force isolates portions
  of the OE in one or more domains are important to Army operations.
  2-84. Army intelligence is inherently multidomain, joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and
  multinational through the intelligence enterprise. The Army synchronizes with unified action partners to
  provide effective and flexible intelligence across multiple domains and to reduce operational uncertainty.
  Through the Army IWFTs, intelligence professionals across the echelons support how commanders and
  staffs plan, make decisions, and control operations in and across the various domains and dimensions. Using
  the various tools and processes discussed under understanding an OE, the intelligence staff strives to
  support continuous situational understanding to allow Army units to see opportunities, seize the initiative,
  and exploit enemy vulnerabilities to open windows of opportunity and reach positions of relative advantage.
  2-85. The optimal mix of leveraging partner, national, and joint capabilities and conducting aggressive
  Army information collection are necessary to defeat threat A2 and AD capabilities and support friendly
  long-range precision fires. Emerging Army deep sensing capabilities will assist in improving Army lethality
  at a greater depth. Deep sensing is the employment of capabilities beyond the division coordinated fire
  line to collect data and information that supports targeting, situational understanding, or decision
  making.