AFATDS Increment II
Abstract
The Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) provides the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps automated fire support command, control and communications. AFATDS is used to plan, execute, and deliver lethal and non-lethal effects. AFATDS provides Joint/Coalition Situational Awareness for fires execution and mission management. The system interoperates and integrates with over 80 different battlefield systems, including Navy and Air Force command and control weapon systems; and the German, French, Turkish, and Italian fire support systems. AFATDS automates the planning, coordination, and control 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 provides eleven core services that manage user input and handle dissemination of complex fires processes. These core services are: Attack/Engagement Analysis, Fire Support Planning, Mission Guidance, Target Definition, Mission Area Definition, Cross-System Graphics/Mapping management, Unit Task Organization Data, Fires Conflict Detection, Mobile Air/Ground Tracking, Mission Execution and Mission Trigger Events. These AFATDS services promote situational awareness of 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. AFATDS FY15 funding in the amount $1.273 million will support efforts to finalize AFATDS V7.0 requirements through market studies and contracted research, and contracting efforts (Request For Information, Request For Proposal, Performance Work Statement, etc). Funding in FY16 through FY20 was moved from program element 0203726A project code DU5 (PB2015 BLIN 163), formerly known as AFATDS Increment 2. The Army Acquisition Executive (AAE) decided that AFATDS Increment 2 was a software modernization effort instead of a new acquisition program. The AAE determined that AFATDS Increment 2 reflected a modernization of the software code for the current AFATDS Project Manager (PM) Mission Command presented a Software Change Proposal for the current AFATDS as the appropriate approach to execute this effort. PM Mission Command will execute AFATDS software version 7.0 development effort as a follow on to the current AFATDS program.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- DU5_0203726A_7_2040_PB_2016
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