Fire Support Command and Control (FSC2) empowers Army, joint and coalition commanders to plan and execute the delivery of both lethal and non-lethal fires and effects with the capability to enhance situational awareness and increase collaboration.

Description

FSC2 systems comprise the entire sensor-to-shooter digital kill chain, from the dismounted forward observer through theater and Combatant Command planning cells. These systems integrate Army, joint and coalition targeting capabilities and fuse that information with the ballistic calculations required to deliver precision munitions.

Capabilities

• Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) Artillery Execution Suite (AXS) is a modernized Fires Execution software suite that will provide the same fully automated support for fires execution as AFATDS but will be designed using a Modular Open System Approach to produce a data-centric, open architecture Fires solution. AFATDS AXS will displace the currently fielded AFATDS 6.8 baseline. AFATDS AXS, sub-products at echelon (Fire Support, Technical Fire Direction, and Tactical Fire Direction), combines essential situational awareness data, intelligence information, and targeting data in near real-time to make effective targeting decisions that align with Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) Mission Command guidance and priorities. It pairs targets to weapons to provide optimum use of fire-support assets and timely execution of fire missions. 
   
• The Joint Targeting Integrated Command and Coordination Suite (JTIC2S) software will provide critical fires/targeting capability for joint and organic Army fire support management, and a joint fires/ targeting common operational picture (COP) for joint and coalition partners, as well as at echelon for target development. JTIC2S will replace the Joint Automated Deep Operations Coordination System (JADOCS) capability and will enable commanders to functionally integrate targeting efforts in a federated method.   
  
  Military service branches at echelon will utilize the functions within JTIC2S for a synchronized targeting tactical picture with Army and Joint Fires COP to support Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) and Multi Domain Operations against a near-peer adversary.
  
  AXS and JTIC2S will share a common Fires Safety Critical Baseline back end infrastructure within NGC2.
   
• Precision Fires-Dismounted (PF-D) is used by forward observers and fire support teams to transmit and receive fire support messages over standard military line-of-sight, high-frequency and satellite communications radios. PF-D enhances this functionality over legacy systems with a revamped user interface and precision fires targeting capabilities. PF-D is hosted as a software application on common Army hardware in the Handheld Computing Environment.
   
• Fires capabilities in sustainment include the Lightweight Forward Entry Device, which hosts the Forward Observer System software, enabling mounted forward observers and fire support officers to plan, control and execute fire support operations at maneuver platoon, company, and battalion and brigade levels across the mounted formation; the Profiler weather system, which improves artillery accuracy by providing meteorological data, one of five requirements for accurate predicted fires; CENTAUR, the lightweight technical fire direction system that provides an automated cannon ballistic firing solution to the Fire Direction Centers; and the JADOCS, a joint mission management software application that provides a suite of tools and interfaces for integration across battlespace functional areas focusing on the Joint Target Cycle.