Adv Field Artillery Tactical Data System(AFA)
Abstract
There are two developmental efforts that are being executed concurrently on this budget item. They are Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System Increment 1 (AFATDS Inc 1)203728A and Network Assisted Global Positioning System (GPS) for Precision Fires. 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 322 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. Network Assisted GPS for Precision Fires is a developmental effort to improve performance of GPS-guided munitions (0203728A). It requires pre-launch loading of target location and sufficient GPS satellite-related data at the weapon platform level to enable flight path and delivery of precision capable fires. This hot start capability allows for rapid post-launch time-to-first-fix of GPS signal and maximum utilization of Precision Guided Munition (PGM) maneuver authority to ensure required target engagement performance. This is especially critical for short flight times and steer-early solutions such as mortar and cannon based PGMs. Local GPS Satellite visibility challenges due to vertical terrain/complex environment issues during normal combat operations can prohibit precision capable fires when using GPS Satellite data generated exclusively at the firing weapon platform (0203728A). A system-of-systems Network Assisted GPS capability will be developed, integrated, and validated to overcome local GPS Satellite masking problems through the sharing of sufficient timely required GPS Satellite data via Wide-Area Network (WAN) and Local-Area Network (LAN) based materiel solutions that effectively and efficiently leverage mature technologies and taxpayer investments of existing acquisition programs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- 322_0203726A_7_2040_PB_2015
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