Adv Field Artillery Tactical Data System

Abstract

AFATDS Increment 2 is the automated Command and Control (C2) system (0203728A) for the ground Fires Warfighting Function. AFATDS Increment 2 will permit the management and targeting analysis of the collective and coordinated target acquisition data, effective selection of munitions-target pairing from indirect fire weapons (land and sea based), as well as fixed and rotary wing aircraft against targets located throughout an area of operations. AFATDS Increment 2 will develop a new software architecture by providing three distinct applications to support role-based functionality: Fire Support, Fire Control, and Fire Direction. It leverages the Common Operating Environment (COE) and Command Post Computing Environment (CP CE) products and capabilities. AFATDS Increment 2 provides a less complicated AFATDS software package to the Warfighter and is fully compliant with the Joint Command and Control Common User Interface (JC2 CUI) architectures. Project DU5 funds development of AFATDS Increment 2. Decomposition of the baseline software (AFATDS version 6.8.1) will be required prior to development of the code for AFATDS Increment 2 (version 7.0). A software development contract will be awarded to develop the Fires Common Core, the foundation upon which the three functional applications will operate. Contracting actions will be completed in FY2015 to award multiple software development contracts for the primary functions of the software: Fire Control; Fire Direction; and Fire Support. A contract for software integration may also be necessary, subject to the completion of the analysis for the development of the contracting strategy. The Fires Common Core software development activity will begin in FY2015, in order to allow developers of the other three applications to subsequently initiate their development.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2015
Source ID
0203726A_7_2040_PB_2015
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Artillery
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Cost Analysis
  • Engineering
  • Fire Support
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Information Systems
  • Rotary Wing Aircraft
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Tactical Data Systems
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Special Operations Command
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control

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