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62 of PDA. Assessment planners must anticipate appropriate measures and indicators for such effects. › Munitions effectiveness assessment (MEA) evaluates whether the selected weapon or munition functioned as intended. It examines the munitions’ known parameters, the delivery tactics used, and the interaction between the munition and the delivery platform. MEA is fed back into the planning process to validate or adjust weaponeering and platform selections. It is also the form of assessment with the highest potential “payoff” in terms of weapons and tactics development, because the data it generates is fed into the JMEM revision process, resulting in more accurate future weaponeering. › Estimated damage analysis (EDA): Many times during execution, it is not possible to wait on ISR verification of strike results without inordinately delaying higher-level assessments. EDA is the technique of using existing munitions effectiveness or other data to estimate weapons effectiveness on targets. This information is used to determine if collection assets other than those inherent in the weapon(s), aircraft, or aircrew are required to establish the level of physical and functional damage inflicted on selected targets. EDA focuses on estimations of weapons effectiveness and therefore allows the commander to accept risk in the absence of other information, and is appropriate for all but high-priority targets. › Lower-scale conflict assessment is an evolving area of assessment and is comparatively recent. In smaller-scale contingencies and stability operations, there may be significant play of non-military instruments of national power and considerable interaction between the military and non-DOD or nongovernmental agencies. These may require assessment at the tactical level that is required for higher effects-based operational- and strategic-level assessments. Exactly what form these assessments will take at the tactical level is hard to say, but will be tied to demands that are specific to the conflict and the cultures or nations it is waged in. In smaller conflicts, the degree of interest from command echelons above component level may be greater, as may the need for timeliness in tactical and higher-level assessments. These operations will require analytical skills ranging far beyond weapons effects into political, socio-economic, cultural-ideological, psychological and international arenas. It will also require coordination with analytical and academic centers outside the DOD. › Weather and environmental effects can play a considerable role in determining the results of targeting actions. At the tactical level, combat weather flights (CWF) are responsible for determining and integrating weather effects into the decision cycle. At the component level, weather personnel assigned to the CAOC assess and integrate weather effects into near-term execution decisions, as well as longer- term strategy considerations. Additionally, operational weather squadrons help anticipate weather effects by providing CWFs and other weather personnel with accurate common characterizations of the current and future environment. › Logistics status: Tactical action results in the expenditure of munitions, fuel, and other materiel. This must be tracked and shown to commanders as part of a comprehensive view of current and projected friendly capability.