ATTP 5-0.1 Commander and Staff Officer Guide - Army Electronic ...

The Staff
� Ensure effective liaison exchanges with higher, lower, and adjacent units and other organizations
as required.
� Supervise the sustainment of the headquarters and activities of the headquarters and headquarters
battalion or company.
� Supervise staff training and integration programs.
� In division through Army Service component command headquarters, the COS personally
supervises the knowledge management, operations research and system analysis, red team, and
special staff sections.
Principal Staff Officers
2-29. The principal staff officers consist of officers from the coordinating, special, or personal staff
sections. Paragraphs 2-31 through 2-75 discuss coordinating staff officers. Paragraphs 2-76 through 2-104
discuss special staff officers. Paragraphs 2-105 through 2-114 discuss personal staff officers.
COMMON STAFF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES
2-30. Each staff section has specific duties and responsibilities by area of expertise. However, all staff
sections share a set of common duties and responsibilities:
� Advising and informing the commander.
� Building and maintaining running estimates.
� Providing recommendations.
� Preparing plans, orders, and other staff writing.
� Assessing operations.
� Managing information within area of expertise.
� Identifying and analyzing problems.
� Coordinating staff.
� Conducting staff assistance visits.
� Performing composite risk management.
� Performing intelligence preparation of the battlefield.
� Conducting staff inspections.
� Completing staff research.
� Performing staff administrative procedures.
� Exercising staff supervision over their area of expertise.
COORDINATING STAFF OFFICERS
2-31. Coordinating staff officers are the commander’s principal assistants who advise, plan, and coordinate
actions within their area of expertise or a warfighting function. Collectively, through the COS or XO,
coordinating staff officers answer to the commander. Commanders may designate coordinating staff
officers as assistant chiefs of staff, deputy chiefs of staff, chiefs of a warfighting function, or staff officers.
Coordinating staff officers also exercise planning and supervisory authority over designated special staff
officers as designated.
2-32. The coordinating staff consists of the following positions:
� Assistant chief of staff (ACOS), G-1 (S-1)—personnel.
� ACOS, G-2 (S-2)—intelligence.
� ACOS, G-3 (S-3)—operations.
� ACOS, G-4 (S-4)—logistics.
� ACOS, G-5—plans.
� ACOS, G-6 (S-6)—signal.
� ACOS, G-7 (S-7)—inform and influence activities.
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