Notice ID: W15P7T24R0008
Program Executive Office Command Control Communications – Tactical (PEO C3T) and Army Contracting Command – Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG) will establish a consortium like model for the development of the modern digital fires products needed to improve decision making and accelerate kill chains against a near-peer threat. Modeled similar to the Air Force Advance Battle Management System consortium, the contract vehicle would support both the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) and Joint Targeting Integrated Command and Coordination (JTIC2S) programs of record. Further information on the contracting approach is provided in the Statement of Objectives (see Attachment 01).
An industry day for AFATDS and JTIC2S is planned for 12-13 DEC 2023 as part of PEO C3T’s Technical Exchange Meeting (TEM) 11 at the Savannah Convention Center, GA. The industry day will include product descriptions of AFATDS and JTIC2S from Product Manager Fire Support Command and Control, Army Capability Manager Fires Cells – Targeting, and current DEVCOM developers. See Section IX of this RFI for additional information regarding the TEM 11.
Currently, the Army is developing the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) Artillery Execution Suite (AXS) as a micro-service, open architecture, hardware agnostic, application based, Fires solution (see Attachment 02). It provides an enduring architectural approach to enable mission adaptability and upgrades. AFATDS AXS is planned to divide the current capabilities provided by the AFATDS 6.8 baseline into three sub-products at echelon (Fire Support Element, Technical Fire Direction, and Tactical Fire Direction).
Current development is executed by the Development Command-Armament Center (DEVCOM-AC). DEVCOM-AC will develop the initial tech stack, backend services, Software Development Kit (SDK), and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for Division Fire Support Element. It is the government’s intent that further refinement of the foundation, development, and integration of each sub-products (Fire Support, Technical Fire Direction, and Tactical Fire Direction) will be managed by the “consortium-like” approach. The government will likely recommend but not mandate leveraging this SDK and MVP as a starting point to enable a compressed software (SW) deployment timeline.
The Army plans to replace the legacy Joint Automated Deep Operations Coordination System (JADOCS) with a new program referred to as Joint Targeting Integrated Command and Coordination Suite (JTIC2S). JTIC2S will provide joint and organic Army fire support management for joint, coalition, and echelon target development and management via access to joint and multi-domain target intelligence databases. JTIC2S enables commanders at brigade through theatre levels throughout the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Special Forces and Coalition partners, to integrate targeting efforts into a single federated user interface via a joint fires/targeting common operational picture (COP).
This digital integration of U.S. and allied fires will provide a capability for nominating, vetting, and validating suspect targets, determining methods of engagement, matching weapons effects to desired target battle damage, conducting targeting and risk mitigation in a coordinated and collaborative digital environment for both deliberate and dynamic targeting.
JTIC2S will provide digital targeting development in coordination with the Intelligence warfighting function and Mission Command Warfighting function enabling access across multiple means of transport. It will also have capability to process a high volume of fires in a contested Large Scale Combat Operations (LSCO) environment, similar to how United States Forces Korea (USFK) support Republic of Korea (ROK) forces in the counter-fire fight today…
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