FM 3-34.22 - Army Electronic Publications & Forms - U.S. Army

Integration of Engineer Operations
engineers in the field to use TeleEngineering and other reachback capabilities to access nondeployed
subject matter expertise that is in the USACE broad range of engineering service support.
COLLABORATIVE PLANNING
2-32. Collaborative planning is the real-time interaction among commanders and staffs at two or more
echelons developing plans for a particular operation. This could be between an ENCOORD at a battalion
TF or the BCT and an engineer battalion headquarters providing general engineering support in the BCT
AO.
PLANNING PROCESS
2-33. As members of the combined arms staff, engineer planners must thoroughly understand the planning
process and how they contribute during each phase. The military decision-making process (MDMP) can be
rather complex and time-consuming with no shortcuts. The engineer planning staff must implement parallel
and collaborative planning to leverage the information resources and planning support capacities of higher,
adjacent, and subordinate engineer units. Managing information, focusing on obtaining RI, and preventing
information overload are fundamental to effective planning.
MILITARY DECISION-MAKING PROCESS
2-34. The MDMP (and associated troop-leading procedures [TLPs]) is the doctrinal planning model that
establishes procedures for analyzing a mission; developing, analyzing, and comparing COAs against each
other; selecting the optimum COA; and producing a plan or order (see figure 2-2). TLPs are used at the
company level and below. (See FM 5-0 for more detailed references to the MDMP and TLPs.)
Figure 2-2. MDMP
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