Army Tactical Command & Control Hardware & Software

Abstract

The umbrella program to exploit automation technology for the conduct of combat operations is the Army Tactical Command and Control System (ATCCS) program which is a component of the Army Battle Command System (ABCS). The ATCCS program provides automation in the five battlefield functional areas (BFAs) with the following specific systems: (1) Maneuver Control System (MCS); (2) Effects and Fires Command and Control Systems (EFCCS); (3) All Source Analysis System (ASAS) for Intelligence/Electronic Warfare; (4) Forward Area Air Defense Command, Control and Intelligence System (FAADC2I); and (5) Battle Command Sustainment Support System (BCS3). To provide an overall technically sound, cost effective, and operationally responsive approach, the design and development of ATCCS must be accomplished on a total systems basis. The ATCCS Engineering Program, known as the Technical Management Division (TMD (formerly Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I)), provides the required overall systems engineering to assure integrated Army Tactical Command and Control and the utilization of common hardware and software throughout the five ATCCS nodal systems. TMD efforts will focus on "Systems of Systems" engineering and integration for evolution of the network (Warfighter Information Network-Tactical, Joint Tactical Radio System) and associated services (Unified Battle Command, Joint Battle Command-Platform, Net-Enabled Command Capability, Network Service Center) with increased emphasis on immediate Warfighter needs as well as leveraging emerging technologies. This program element also includes the Central Technical Support Facility (CTSF) which is the Army's single strategic facility responsible for executing System of System Interoperability checkout, testing, physical system integration and configuration management of the Army's Land WarNet Baseline. The Common Hardware Systems (CHS) and the Common Software (CS) projects provide state of the art common products to customers to meet their developmental and fielding needs. The Joint Network Node (JNN) ( WIN-T Increment 1) is intended to replace legacy Mobile Subscriber Equipments (MSE) while moving the Army to a unified Everything Over Internet Protocol (EOIP) Communications System. JNN Testing is the Increment 1b Technical Insertion to Increment 1a for Operational Test, which will be conducted in FY 2012 in conjunction with the Increment 2 Initial Operational Test and Evaluation. These systems support the Legacy to Objective transition path.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2012
Source ID
0604818A_5_2040_PB_2012
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Configuration Management
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cross Domain
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Engineering
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Life Cycles
  • Logistics
  • Software Testing
  • System Of Systems
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Military Science
  • Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

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

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