text: Airspace Control in Operations
  JOINT AIR GROUND INTEGRATION CENTER (JAGIC)
  2-39. Beginning in fiscal year 2011, the United States Air Force began aligning its ASOC capabilities with
  each active duty Army division. The Air National Guard will have two non-aligned ASOCs to support Army
  National Guard divisions. Aligning ASOCs provides an effective method to command and control close air
  support, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, as well as dynamic and deliberate interdiction
  operations and to provide an effective means to coordinate suppression of enemy air defenses in division-
  assigned airspace. An effective technique to integrate the ASOC within the division command post is to form
  a joint air ground integration center (JAGIC). The JAGIC is a method to effectively organize personnel and
  equipment to build personal relationships and teamwork between Soldiers and Airmen. This is accomplished
  through the physical integration of ASOCs and tactical air control parties with division fires, airspace, air
  and missile defense, and aviation personnel and functions within the current operations integration cell
  (COIC). This gives the division a powerful joint team capable of collaborative fires while maximizing the
  use of airspace.
  2-40. All JAGIC functions are in support of COIC. Specific functions of the JAGIC include fires, airspace
  control, interdiction coordination, friendly force identification, and information collection. These functions
  are fully described in ATP 3-91.1, The Joint Air Ground Integration Center.
  2-41. The JAGIC provides the division with the capability to control joint airspace delegated by the ACA in
  accordance with the airspace control plan (ACP) and the airspace control order (ACO). The JAGIC’s
  collocation of division and ASOC airspace personnel enables shared understanding and collaborative
  integration of airspace users. The JAGIC’s control of airspace allows the division to effectively integrate
  fires and airspace control during operations with appropriate flexible and timely actions.
  BRIGADE LEVEL
  2-42. Brigades are responsible for airspace management of Army airspace users within their AO. The
  authority of the brigade over unified action partner airspace users varies and is specified in the higher
  headquarters airspace control appendix. All Army airspace users transiting a brigade AO coordinate with the
  brigade responsible for the AO they are transiting. The division only integrates Army airspace use between
  brigades if adjudication between brigades is necessary. Brigades normally contact the JAGIC to coordinate
  with joint airspace elements controlling airspace over the brigade (CRC, AWACS, and TAOC). In some
  situations, for example, very lightly used airspace or airspace with few unified action partner airspace users,
  the division may delegate this authority.
  2-43. BCTs are not normally delegated control of joint airspace as they lack trained and equipped controllers.
  Rather BCTs are responsible for integrating airspace users supporting BCT air ground operations.
  Sometimes, the brigade requests approval to control a volume of airspace such as a high-density airspace
  control zone (HIDACZ). However, for a brigade to control airspace for an extended period, it needs to
  augment the ADAM/BAE with assets from the ATS company organic to the CAB. See paragraph 2-51
  for more details on ATS assets available to the CAB and brigade.
  2-44. Functional brigades without an organic ADAM/BAE still retain brigade responsibilities for some
  airspace tasks (see appendix E) but rely on their higher headquarters for complete airspace control. If a
  functional brigade falls under the control of a support brigade (for example, a military police brigade under
  a maneuver enhancement brigade), the support brigade integrates the functional brigade airspace
  requirements. If the functional brigade falls directly under the control of a corps or division, then the corps
  or division airspace element integrates the brigade airspace requirements.
  2-45. Several multifunctional support brigades such as the combat aviation brigade or field artillery brigade
  do not routinely control AOs but conduct operations throughout the corps AO. Normally these brigades
  coordinate their airspace use with the divisions and brigades whose AOs they will transit (or with corps
  airspace elements for portions of the corps AO unassigned to a division or brigade). Airspace control becomes
  more complex when a corps tasks these brigades to accomplish a mission (such as Army aviation attacks or
  fires strikes) that affects airspace use by other divisions or brigades. The brigade conducting the operation is
  the lead airspace control planner with the higher headquarters airspace element providing planning and
  airspace control support to the brigade’s ADAM element. The division or corps airspace element checks that
  it adjusts the airspace plan to account for the brigade commander’s priorities and concept of operations.