This common picture and situational awareness will permit commanders at all echelons to better control forces, synchronize effects, and achieve decisive victory with minimal casualties. A digitized force will have significant advantages over conventionally equipped forces. Introducing digital technologies into the Army will not occur simultaneously throughout the force. Within the corps, the integration of digitally equipped units with conventionally equipped units presents unique challenges for commanders and staffs. Commanders and staffs can achieve total integration through the exchange of LNOs and by establishing additional voice communications capabilities.
Commanders can synchronize operations through battle drills and SOPs.
Finally, the staff can process digital information for distribution to conventionally equipped units via compatible means. Information-age technologies enhance the corps' enormous complementary capability to conduct sustained land combat operations. The corps commander must employ all capabilities to dominate maneuver, conduct precision fires, protect the force, win the battlefield information war, and sustain combat power. Through digitization, friendly units will be able to move precisely at great speed and effectively employ weapons of superior range and lethality. Enhancements in command and control, intelligence, target detection, and fire control will allow the corps to conduct decisive maneuver in combination with simultaneous precision fires.