Air Defense Command, Control and Intelligence - Eng Dev

Abstract

The Air and Missile Defense Planning and Control System (AMDPCS) is an Army Objective Force System that provides integration of Air and Missile Defense (AMD) operations at all echelons. AMDPCS systems are deployed with Air Defense Artillery (ADA) brigades, Army Air and Missile Defense Commands (AAMDCs), and Air Defense and Airspace Management (ADAM) Cells at the Brigade Combat Teams (BCT's), Fires Brigades and Divisions. AMDPCS systems also provide air defense capabilities to Homeland Defense systems. AMDPCS has three major components: (1) The Air and Missile Defense Workstation (AMDWS) is an automated defense and staff planning tool that displays the common tactical and operational air picture. AMDWS provides the Battle Command (BC) capabilities embedded within the Warfighter Mission area. AMDWS is also the Net-centric interface to BC for all components of the AMD force. AMDWS provides an interoperability link to multinational air defense forces IAW Annex C to a Joint US/NATO Air Defense Agreement; (2) The Air Defense System Integrator (ADSI) is a communications data link processor and display system that provides near-real time joint airspace situational awareness and fire direction command and control for Air and Missile Defense forces; (3) The Army Air Defense shelter configurations use automated data processing equipment, tactical communications, Common Hardware Systems, standard vehicles and tactical power to provide AMD unit commanders and staffs with the capabilities to plan missions, direct forces, and control the airspace. The Forward Area Air Defense Command, Control, and Intelligence (FAAD C2I) System provides continuously tailored situational awareness and situational understanding of the battlespace (including data on threat aircraft, cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to support the planning and decision process at various levels of command. The mission is to collect, digitally process and disseminate real time target cueing and tracking information, common tactical air picture, and C2I information to all Short Range Air Defense (SHORAD) weapons (Avenger, Bradley Linebacker, Manportable Air Defense System (MANPADS), joint and combined arms). Unique FAAD C2 software will provide this mission capability by integrating FAAD C2 engagement operations software with the Joint Digital Radio (JDR), Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS), Enhanced Position Location Reporting System (EPLRS), Global Positioning System (GPS), Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), Sentinel and the Army Battle Command System (ABCS) architecture. Provides joint C2 interoperability and horizontal integration with PATRIOT, THAAD, MEADS, JLENS and SHORAD weapon systems by fusing sensor data to create a scalable and filterable single integrated air picture (SIAP) and common operating picture (COP) at Army divisions and below. System software will provide target data and engagement commands/status to the Surface Launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (SLAMRAAM) air defense system. A small portion of RDTE funding is dedicated to SLAMRAAM C2 threshold requirements. FAAD C2 is the first system to digitize for Army Transformation in the First Digitized Division (FDD), III (Digitized) Corps, the Joint Contingency Force (JCF) and the STRYKER Brigade Combat Teams (SBCTs). The FAAD C2 netted and distributed system architecture has been briefed as the basis for a potential BM/C4I Future Combat System (FCS). Counter-Rockets, Artillery and Mortar (C-RAM) is a spiral Initiative Non-Developmental program initiated by the Army Chief of Staff in response to Iraqi threat and twice validated theater ONS. The primary mission of the C-RAM program is to develop, procure, field and maintain a system of systems that can detect rocket, artillery or mortar launches; warn the defended area with sufficient time for personnel to take cover; intercept rounds in flight, thus preventing damage to ground forces or facilities; and enhance response to and defeat of enemy forces. C-RAM utilizes a system of systems (SoS) approach, and is comprised of a combination of multi-service fielded and non-developmental item (NDI) sensors, command and control (C2) systems and a modified U.S. Navy intercept system, with a low cost commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) warning system and wireless local area network. The system will be fielded to various fixed or sites, providing them correlated air and ground pictures and linking them to the Army Battle Command System (ABCS) and the Joint Defense Network (JDN), via various forms of communications to provide situational awareness and exchange of timely and accurate information to synchronize and optimize automated Shape, Sense, Warn, Intercept, Respond and Protect decisions.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: 0604741A_5_2040_PB_2012
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Defense
• Airborne Warning And Control System
• Aircrafts
• Artillery
• Command And Control
• Control Systems
• Counter Rocket, Artillery, And Mortor
• Defense Systems
• Global Positioning Systems
• Homeland Defense
• Network Protocols
• Short Range Air Defense
• Software Development
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Warning Systems

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Missile Defense Systems.
• Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Space