Joint Automated Deep Operation Coordination System (JADOCS)

Abstract

There are three developmental efforts that are being executed concurrently: Joint Automated Deep Operations Coordination System (JADOCS) (project code EF6); Pocket-sized Forward Entry Device (Increment 2) (project code EF7); and Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) (Increment 1) (project code EF8). Joint Automated Deep Operations Coordination System (JADOCS) software provides joint fire support management, and common operational picture (COP) capabilities. JADOCS complements the Mission Command architecture with joint and collaborative capabilities that can be employed and tailored based on the unit mission and operational situation. JADOCS software provides integration between multiple joint command and control (C2) systems of the uniformed services involved in the targeting process at US Air Force (USAF), US Navy (USN), and US Marine Corps (USMC) Air Operations Centers (AOCs), Marine Expeditionary Forces (MEFs), Fleet Maritime Operations Centers (MOCs), and staff sections at the regional Combatant Commands (COCOMs), Special Operations Command (SOCOM), and Army Battlefield Coordination Detachments (BCDs), Army Service Component Commands (ASCC), Corps and Divisions. Project EF6 funds development of JADOCS Version 2.0 which is the final version of JADOCS to be developed with new functionality. JADOCS V2.0 is required to incorporate critical Joint requirements into JADOCS. These requirements include modification and updates for joint interfaces, updates to databases, and creation of non kinetic fires targeting. JADOCS V2.0 development is slated to be developed by a government agency with work beginning in FY2014. The Pocket-sized Forward Entry Device (PFED) Increment 2 will be a software only application that operates on the existing Nett Warrior End User Device (EUD). It will provide the dismounted Forward Observer (FO) and Fire Support Teams (FISTs) the capability and functionality to accurately and rapidly locate ground targets and enable the Nett Warrior Ensemble to digitally process a Call For Fire; linking the sensor to the shooter with an efficient integration of multiple acquisition programs. PFED Increment 2 aligns with the Army's Fires and Effects Concept of Operation and describes how fires and effects contribute to Networked Fires as part of the combined arms teams in Army, Special Operations Forces (SOF), and Joint operations. PFED Increment 2 answers the Mobile Handheld Computing Environment requirement that all handheld applications reside on the Nett Warrior End User Device. PFED Increment 2 will provide Category 1 target mensuration via Precision Fires Imagery enabling the effective use of new precision munitions. Project code EF7 funds the evolutionary software development of this handheld Fires Command and Control (C2) system. AFATDS Increment 1 provides Army, Navy, and Marine Corps automated fire support command, control and communications and functions as the land component's automated Fire Support Command and Control (FSC2) system. AFATDS is used in the Fires Warfighting Function to plan, execute, and deliver lethal and non-lethal fires within the overall Mission Command and Control (MC2) enterprise. The system interoperates and integrates with: over 80 different battlefield systems from Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force; and the German, French, Turkish, and Italian fire support command and control systems. AFATDS fuses the essential situational awareness data, intelligence information and targeting data, in near real time, in order to effectively manage target selection and target engagement in accordance with the Maneuver Commanders guidance and priorities and to safely execute against friendly situational picture. AFATDS pairs targets to weapons to provide optimum use of fire support assets and timely execution of fire missions. AFATDS automates the planning, coordinating, and controlling of all fire support assets (field artillery, mortars, close air support, naval gunfire, attack helicopters, offensive electronic warfare, fire support meteorological systems, forward observers, and fire support radars). AFATDS automatically implements detailed commander's guidance in the automation of operational planning, movement control, targeting, target value analysis, and fire support planning. AFATDS is being used in operations in Afghanistan. Project EF8 funds development of AFATDS Version 6.8.1. AFATDS 6.8.1 fires capabilities are being enhanced to meet JADOCS ground fires requirements in order to remove JADOCS from the ground forces inventory. With the completion of AFATDS Version 6.8.1, the program office will complete the AFATDS Increment 1 development and will start the Increment 2 development in 4Q FY2014. Final engineering reviews will be conducted and Government Confidence Testing, Information Assurance testing, and Certification testing will be completed. Full materiel release of the software will be completed in 3Q FY2015 and universal fielding and training of the software will be conducted.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
• Source ID: 0203728A_7_2040_PB_2015
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Force
• Artillery
• Attack Helicopters
• Budgets
• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Control Systems
• Cost Analysis
• Elements
• Fire Support
• Marine Corps
• Precision
• Software Development
• Tactical Data Systems
• Unified Combatant Commands
• United States Special Operations Command
• Warfare

Fields of Study

• Engineering

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Marksmanship and Weaponry.

Technology Areas

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