text: Field Artillery Operations
  4-14. The TFC organizes, equips, and trains as a dedicated theater strategic level multidomain fires
  organization in support of the JFLCC/theater army. The formation serves in assigned theater to provide the
  Joint Force freedom of action during LSCO. The TFC provides strategic reach enabling the TFC to target
  and defeat threat capabilities, creating multiple dilemmas for the enemy to gain positions of advantage for
  Joint Force and ARFOR exploitation. The TFC roles include:
  * Provide accurate and timely information to theater operations and intelligence processes.
  * Provide early warning, reaction time, and maneuver space to the supported commander.
  * Preserve combat power.
  * Operate for extended duration at supporting distances.
  * Facilitate movement and transitions for the supported theater commander.
  * Facilitate echeloned C2 through situational understanding.
  * Represent the theater army in the joint targeting process.
  * Integrate coalition/multi-national fires.
  THEATER FIRES ELEMENT
  4-15. The TFE provides the JFLCC with the ability to accomplish joint force objectives, set the theater and
  support the development of an integrated multidomain joint force. The element plans, coordinates,
  synchronizes cross-domain fires in support of the JFLCC commander. They serve as the JFLCC's
  coordinating element for theater joint targeting providing an integrated theater strategic fires capability.
  4-16. The TFE is organized under the G3 and the lead staff proponent for resourcing and coordinating actions
  for assigned fires HQs (multi-domain task force, BCD, FAB, Corps FSE). The TFE plans, coordinates, and
  synchronizes Army fires in support of the Theater Joint Force Land Component Commander and serves as
  the TFLCC's coordinating element for theater joint targeting in support of the Joint Force Commander (JFC).
  When designated as a Joint Task Force (JTF), the TFE serves as the nucleus for the Joint Fires Element (JFE)
  and is the integrating staff element that plans, coordinates, and synchronizes joint fires on behalf of the JTF
  commander. The TFE is structured and organized to:
  * Plan, coordinate, and synchronize Army fires in support of the TJFLCC.
  * Integrates Joint and Multinational Fires during Theater Joint Targeting.
  * Develop targets of ground component interest and shepherd them through the targeting B2C2WG
  process (Target Discovery, BTD, ITD, ATD) for vetting and validation onto the joint target list
  (JTL) and restricted target list (RTL).
  * Lead staff proponent (governance, resourcing, and coordination actions) assigned Fires HQ
  (multi-domain task force, BCD, FAB, Corps FSE) in the theater.
  * Plan for set the theater activities in support of Campaign Plan and OPLAN.
  * Lead integrators for Joint Fires Network (JFN), Fires COP, and AI/ML solutions into the digital
  kill chain.
  * Maintains situations awareness on the operations floor providing the commander's estimate of blue
  and red fires.
  * The TFE is not structured or organized to:
   Serve as a FFA HQ.
   Manage theater level counter fire fight.
   Manage theater level fires ammunition.
   No command authority to conduct mission command over assigned or attached fires
  formations.
  Note. If searching for the manning authorizations for the theater fires element (TFE) in the Army’s
  Force Management System, the TFE is not found. In its place, you will find the Multidomain Fires
  Element.