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  Figure 3-1. Shaping activities within an environment of cooperation and competition
  3-4. Shaping activities help assure operational access for crisis response and contingency operations. Army
  signal forces support the geographic combatant commander’s shaping operations to promote favorable
  access. Signal activities that support shaping operations include—
  * Key leader engagements.
  * Bilateral and multinational exercises to improve multinational communications interoperability.
  * Negotiations to develop bilateral and multinational information sharing agreements.
  * The use of grants and contracts to improve interoperability and the communications capabilities
  of partner nations.
  * Designing interoperability into acquisition programs.
  * Agreements for shared use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  * Mapping of adversary capabilities in the electromagnetic spectrum.