Adv Field Artillery Tactical Data System

Abstract

The Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) automates fire support planning and coordination for the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. AFATDS automates the planning, coordinating and controlling of all fire support assets in the Joint battlespace (field artillery, mortars, close air support, naval gunfire, attack helicopters, and offensive electronic warfare) from Echelons Above Corps to Battery or Platoon in support of all levels of conflict. As a result of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)/Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), AFATDS has implemented precision fires capabilities in new/improved munitions such as Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Unitary Vertical Attack, Excalibur, Smart and 155 Bonus. Additional implemented capabilities include automatic conduct of Unit Fratricide Avoidance Checks and Collateral Damage Avoidance. AFATDS will interoperate with the other Army Battle Command Systems, current and future Army, Navy and Air Force Command and Control weapon systems, and the German, French, British, and Italian fire support systems. The system is composed of common hardware/software employed in varying configurations at different operational facilities (or nodes) and unique system software interconnected by tactical communications in the form of a software-driven, automated network. The system is currently fielding non-developmental, rugged common hardware, running the Windows Operating System. The total force will be fielded a Windows based platform by fiscal year 2013. Joint Automated Deep Operations Coordination System (JADOCS) is a Joint, Interagency, and Multinational (JIM) Targeting, Mission Management, and Common Operational Picture (COP) Windows based software suite which functions as a complementary system to the AFATDS. JADOCS provides integration and synergy between multiple Command & Control (C2) systems of the uniformed services, and Joint and combined elements involved in the targeting process and performs coordination and calculates collateral damage. JADOCS Mission Managers support this coordination amongst Warfighter functional areas to rapidly execute critical missions. JADOCS is a component of the Integrated Fires Family of Systems (FOS) and complementary to the Army Battle Command Systems (ABCS) System of Systems (SoS).

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2012
Source ID
0203726A_7_2040_PB_2012
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Artillery
  • Command And Control
  • Commerce
  • Fire Support
  • Iraqi-War
  • Multiple Launch Rocket System
  • Munitions
  • Operating Systems
  • Small Business
  • Software Development
  • Tactical Data Systems
  • Technology Transfer
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unexploded Ammunition
  • United States Central Command
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems

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