…This Air Education and Training Command (AETC)-sponsored course is the Air Force’s primary targeteer training course. Anyone working directly in the ISRD targeting and assessment team or the COD/CPD targeting team should consider…

vii FOUNDATIONAL DOCTRINE STATEMENTS These statements are the basic principles and beliefs upon which this Air Force doctrine document (AFDD) is built. Other information in the AFDD expands on or supports these statements. › Targeting is the…

…The mission of the USAFWS is to teach graduate-level instructor courses, which provide the world’s most advanced training in weapons and tactical employment to officers in the combat air forces. (Also commonly know as…

…Even at the operational level, they may include lesser measures such as modifying the MOE to reflect new requirements, or utilizing new capabilities or forces. Metrics The SD should develop metrics to determine if air operations…

…For further guidance on CID, see JP 3-33, Joint Task Force Headquarters, and Air Force Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (AFTTP) manual 3-1.1, General Planning and Employment Considerations (Secret). Finally, the JAOP should establish…

Air Force Doctrine Publication 3-60, Targeting 11 constantly engaged with the strategy, plans, and operations divisions within an Air Operations Center (AOC) at all stages in the air tasking cycle. Additionally, judge advocates are usually…

…Targeting also explicitly includes force execution and assessment, so it encompasses the processes and procedures that form the core of how the Air Force and the combined force as a whole fight at the operational level…

…appropriate components’ agencies and liaison elements for tasking of the capabilities and forces made available (see Chapter Two). › Monitor execution and redirect joint air and space operations as required (see Chapter Three). › Compile component target requirements…

Air Force Doctrine Publication 3-60, Targeting 17 (OSINT) can be equally, and sometimes more, important to targeteers and planners.27 Collaboration with reachback and federated organizations may enable analysts to pull together this multitude of…

Air Force Doctrine Publication 3-60, Targeting 28 for detecting, engaging, and assessing targets prosecuted via dynamic targeting (see Appendix A: Targeting Automation). During dynamic targeting, on-call, unscheduled, and unanticipated targets are prosecuted using the…

25 The tasking cycle has usually been represented as a set of distinct processes that separately accomplish targeting, apportion and allocate joint air capabilities, and produce the ATO. In fact, these processes are all closely interrelated…

107 GLOSSARY Abbreviations and Acronyms AAC Air Armaments Center ACC Air Combat Command ACFT analysis, correlation, and fusion team ACO airspace coordination order AETC Air Education and Training Command AFB Air Force base AFDD Air Force…

Air Force Doctrine Publication 3-60, Targeting 3 It is the combined joint (JTL) and restricted target lists (RTL) from multiple combatant commanders (CCDRs) for a specific adversary, maintained by the supported CCDR. The GITL provides…

…DCA encompasses active and passive measures for air and missile defense that contribute to force protection by detecting, identifying, intercepting, and destroying or negating enemy forces attempting to penetrate or attack through friendly airspace to include…

…Examples include the liaison elements to the joint air operations center (JAOC)—battlefield coordination detachment, Marine liaison element, naval and amphibious liaison element, Air Force liaison element, tactical air planners, and the special operations liaison element…

Air Force Doctrine Publication 3-60, Targeting 24 to ensure all-domain operations (space, cyberspace, information, and electromagnetic warfare) are deconflicted, appropriately resourced, and phased over the operating area. TTA provides planners with a variety of…

111 SOF special operations forces SOLE special operations liaison element SORTIEALOT sortie allotment message SOSA system of system analysis SPINS special instructions SROE standing rules of engagement TA tactical assessment TACP tactical air control party TBMCS…

v INTRODUCTION PURPOSE This Air Force Doctrine Document (AFDD) establishes doctrinal guidance for planning, executing, and assessing targeting operations. APPLICATION This AFDD applies to the Total Force: all Air Force military and civilian personnel, including regular…

…AIR FORCE CONTINENTAL US-BASED SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS Headquarters USAF HQ USAF. AF/A2 and A3I are the focal points for coordinating the Air Force’s CONUS-based targeting and assessment reachback support. Air Force Network Operations…

Air Force Doctrine Publication 3-60, Targeting 1 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO TARGETING Targeting is the process of selecting and prioritizing targets, and matching the appropriate response to them, considering operational requirements and capabilities.1 While…