1-34. Planners combine sensors, shooters, munitions, command and control systems, and personnel into organizations designed to employ fires to accomplish specific mission sets from strategic- to tactical-level. This includes tailoring forces for task organization and contingency planning. Contingency planning is an ongoing effort that begins at home station and is modified as required until the contingency becomes an operation. Contingency planning also requires leaders and forces to interact with and advise allied and friendly military partners to integrate capabilities for fires, protection, improving information exchange and intelligence sharing. This provides U.S. forces with peacetime and contingency access, and the ability to mitigate conditions that could lead to a crisis.