INVESTMENT COMPONENT
Modernization
Recapitalization
Maintenance
Provides the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps with automated fire support command, control, and communications.
The Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) functions as the land component’s automated Fire Support Command and Control (FSC2) system. The AFATDS software is used in the Fires Warfighting Function (WFF) to plan, execute, and deliver lethal and non-lethal effects within the overall Mission Command and Control enterprise. AFATDS interoperates and integrates with over 80 different battlefield systems, to include Navy and Air Force command and control weapon systems and the German, French, Turkish, and Italian fire support systems. AFATDS fuses the essential situational awareness (SA) data, intelligence information and targeting data, in near real time, in order to effectively manage target selection and target engagement in accordance with Mission Command guidance and priorities.
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). The system is in use in operations in Afghanistan.
In this Publication
Battle Command Sustainment Support System (BCS3), Distributed Common Ground System–Army (DCGS-A) Global Command and Control System–Army (GCCS-A), Tactical Battle Command (TBC)/Maneuver Control System (MCS), Joint Battle Command–Platform (JBC-P), Lightweight 155mm Howitzer System (LW155), Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) M270A1
Other Major Interdependencies
Lightweight Forward Entry Device (LFED), Pocket-Sized Forward Entry Device (PFED), Joint Automated Deep Operations Coordination System (JADOCS), Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS), Naval Fires Control System (NFCS), Command and Control Personal Computer / Joint Tactical COP Workstation (C2PC / JTCW)
ACQUISITION PHASE
Technology Development
Engineering & Manufacturing Development
Production & Deployment
Operations & Support
Australia, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Portugal, Taiwan, and Turkey
Raytheon (Fort Wayne, IN)
General Dynamics (Taunton, MA)
Northrop Grumman (Aberdeen, MD)
Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) (Eatontown, NJ; Belcamp, MD)
CACI (Eatontown, NJ)
