United States Army Combined Arms Center Mission Command Systems Overview

United States Army Combined Arms Center

Mission Command Systems Overview


LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Action: Identify the Capabilities and interoperability of the Army Mission Command Systems.

Condition: Given a classroom environment with operational Mission Command (MC) Systems, working AMCS network, connected to appropriate Servers and Databases.

Standard: A. Identify the Capabilities, Mission, and Interoperability of

the Army Mission Command Systems. B. Define GCCS-A, TBC Co-host, BCS, AMDWS, TAIS,

AFATDS, DSGS-A, BCS3, and FBCB2. C. Define Mission Command System Components to

understand the role of the TMC host and there contribution to the COP.


Why bother learning about AMCS ?


Mission Command Systems

“In 2010, the battlefield will be fully ‘digitized’......The

leaders of 2010 must and will be masters of information

technology.”

- GEN Gordon Sullivan(Retired)


How do Army Mission Command Systems help the Commander?


Answer: By providing a Common Operational Picture (COP)

The Mission Command Systems provide a familiar look, touch, sound, and feel to the commander, no matter where the commander is deployed. Information presentation from Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence system interfaces (C4I) are maintained consistently from platform to platform, enabling the commander to focus attention on the mission at hand as well as future operations and planning.

How do Army Mission Command Systems help the Commander?


Definition of Mission Command Systems

- Mission Command Systems support the mission by integrating the automation and communications systems that link strategic and tactical headquarters.

- Mission Command Systems are interoperable with joint and multinational C2 systems at upper echelons (Division and above), and it is vertically and horizontally integrated at the tactical and operational levels.


Global Command and Control system- Army (GCCS-A)

Provides Army components with automated decision support tools for the planning and executing of military operations that require mobilization, deployment, employment, sustainment, reconstitution, redeployment, and demobilization of U.S. forces that support conventional joint military operations:

Strategic - GCCS-Joint: Combination of joint policies,

procedures, personnel, training and a reporting structure supported by

automated data processing on GCCS.

Operational/Tactical - GCCS-Army: Provides a seamless link of information and data from the strategic Global Command and Control System- Joint to the Army corps elements and below.


Global Command and Control System-Army (GCCS-A)

- The Army’s version the Global Command and Control System

- Provides a single, Joint battle command system from BCT / Division commander

to Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

- Synchronizes battlefield awareness over widely dispersed locations

- Utilizes a global map for the COP

-Supports Corps-level planning, execution

and monitoring

CAPABILITIES


GCCS-A Common Operating Picture (COP)

- Common map source – Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics (CADRG) in various military scales

- Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED)

- Common Imagery Base (CIB) - 1m, 5m & 10m resolution

- Common look and feel across AMCS


Tactical Mission Command Host(CPOF)

- Mission Command Work Station (CPOF) is a command-level decision support system with the primary purpose of providing situational awareness and real-time collaborative tools to support the military decision-making process (MDMP). Mission Command Work Station (CPOF) is used at all echelons from battalion through Army Service Component Command (ASCC).


Mission Command Work Station(CPOF) Workstation

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Voice Collaboration

Headset

Voice Collaboration

Headset

Mission Command Work Station (CPOF) is a decision support system providing situational awareness and collaborative tools supporting decision making, planning, rehearsal and execution management.


Mission Command Work Station (CPOF) Use In Theater

- 24/7 – COP, BUBs, CUBs, Cdr’s Intel Assessments, Mortar/Rocket Analysis, ISR Tracking, Collection Management, Orders Tracking, General Intel Analysis, IPB, Detainee Tracking, Critical Event Synchronization, Weather Forecasts, Battle Tracking

- Briefings and Rehearsals

- Primary Battle Tracking Tool, (Friendly and Enemy SIGACTS).

- Ops and Intel are Integrated – Planning, Coordination, Battle Tracking, Collaboration are Shared

- Pattern Analysis Applications Built In

- All Data in CPOF is Shared and Collaborative


Air and Missile Defense Work Station(AMDWS)

- Primary component of AMCS that provides air and missile defense and air situational awareness

- Provides the air picture to the COP

-The AMDWS is fielded to AMD units at all echelons of command, battalion through theater

- Air Defense Planning and Analysis Notifies AMCS systems of potential air threats and TBM’s

CAPABILITIES


- Defense Planner with ADA Specific Graphics • Weapon/Sensor Coverage• ACO/ATO Control Measures

- Threat Analysis/Playback

- Near-real time Air Picture• Air Breathers-Fixed, Rotary• UAV’s, Missiles, TBM’s

- Common Message Processor


CAPABILITIES Cont’d



- AMCS systems receive ADA data through PASS

- Displayed COP products include:• ACO/ATO• Friendly & Hostile• Unknown Fixed/Rotary Wing Aircraft• UAV’s• Missiles



Tactical Airspace Integration System(TAIS)

- Supports the Protection Warfighting Function

- Provides the Air SA for airspace de-confliction and fratricide avoidance

- Automates Airspace Command and Control (AC2) planning & operations and Air Traffic Services (ATS)

CAPABILITIES


Tactical Airspace Integration System(TAIS)

- Located at Division & Corps CPs and at BCT & ADAM Cells

- Provides input for Joint Airspace Control Order

- Displayed COP products include: 2-D & 3-D airspace views

- Displays ACOs and ACMs

- Distributes AC2 overlays to AMCS



Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS)

- Supports the Fires Warfighting Function

- Provides automated decision support for Fire Support (FS)

- Supports the planning, coordination and execution of close support and counter fire

- Responsible for publishing fire support missions

AFATDS

CAPABILITIES

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- Located from Platoon to Echelons Above Corps (EAC) - Fires Cells & Artillery CPs- Fully automated fire support system for planning, coordination, & control of:• Close Support• suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD)• Counter Fire• Deep Operations• Interdiction

- Target Data:• Active & Inactive• Planned & On-call• Suspect Targets



- Displayed COP products include:

• Fire Support Coordination Measures

• Weapon/Radar Range Fans

• Target Data

• Pre-Planned Fires

• Final Protective Fires

• Active Missions



TESASAS

GGB

CI&I Ops

IMETS

CGS

ETW

PC

From 9 Stovepipe Programs of Record …

Distributed Common Ground Station-Army (DCGS-A)

DCGS-A

…to the Intelligence Enterprise under

One Roof

DTSS



- DCGS-A provides the toolset to create and disseminate visual intelligence products from Battalion to Echelons Above Corps (EAC).

- DCGS-A’s are the link for the Commander to receive the all source correlated intelligence picture provided by the Analysis and Control Element. (ACE)

CAPABILITIES


- DCGS-A allows tactical units to exchange intelligence information.

- DCGS-A provides a robust set of intelligence analysis tools for use in stability operations environments.

- Displayed COP products include Enemy Graphics




Battle Command Sustainment Support System (BCS3)

- Supports the Sustainment Warfighting Function

- Fuses sustainment and in-transit / force data to aid staffs in making critical decisions

- BCS3 provides a graphical representation of the current and future logistics situation for the land Area of Operations (AO)

- Provides logistical CCIR tracking with alerts

BCS3

CAPABILITIES



- Located from FSC to Echelons Above Corps (EAC) CPs; used by S1/S4, G1/G4 & SPO’s

- Supply Class Search – shows resource status with items grouped by class of supply

- Personnel Daily Summary – for company size units & separate battalions




• Combat Power (CL III, V, VII & Pers)

• In-Transit Visibility (ITV)

• Supply Point Visibility / Status

• Logistical COA Analysis

• Logistic related CCIR alerts

• Maintenance & Collection point



Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2)

- Two configurations:• BFT- satellite based communications

• FBCB2-EPLRS

- Manages SA and SU down to the individual platform level

- Passing combat information (near real-time) using formatted messages

- It supports lower-echelon battle command requirements including: -

-

CAPABILITIES



- Tactical picture with common look and feel from squad to brigade

High quality digital maps

- Battle Command:• Combat messages• Sharing of information – Vertical

and Horizontal





• Graphical displays with friendly and enemy unit locations

• Situational Awareness: Where are you at? Where are your buddies? Where is the enemy?


Battle Command Server (BCS)

- The Battle Command Server (BC Server) provides interoperability services including the Publish and Subscribe Services (PASS).

- Also supports Joint Convergence with the United States Marine Corps (USMC) by providing a data exchange gateway (C2PC) that allows the direct exchange of Common Operating Picture (COP) data between the joint services.


Army Mission Command Systems

JTRS

TMCTactical MissionCommand Host

FBCB2Force XXI Battle

Command - Brigade

and Below

BCS3Battle CommandSustainment and Support System

AMDWSAir and MissileDefense Work

Station

DCGS-ADistributed Ground

Station - Army

TAISTactical Airspace

IntegrationSystem

AFATDSAdvanced Field

Artillery Tactical Data System

GCCS-AGlobal Command and Control System-Army

BCSBattle Command

Server


Where is AMCS Found?

- AFATDS• FECC: Fire Effect Coordination Cell• FSE: Fire Support Element (Platoon and above)

- AMDWS• ADAM Cell: Air Defense Airspace Management (Battalion and

above)

- DCGS-A• Intel / ACE: Analysis Control Element (Battalion and above)

- BCS3• Sustainment Cell (Forward Support Companies and above)


- BFT/FBCB2• Command Post’s (Current Operations)• Selected Individual Platforms

- GCCS-A• G3 (Div and Above)

- IMETS• Intel Cell (Battalion and above)

- CPOF/MCS• Operations/ Sustainment Cell (Battalion and above)

- TAIS• Operations/ ADAM Cell (Battalion through Division)

Note: All Common Services provided by these systems are hosted on the Centralized (BCS) Battle Command Server.

Where is AMCS Found?


Summary

- Identify the Capabilities, Mission, and Interoperability of Mission Command Systems

- Define GCCS-A ,TMC Host, BCS, AMDWS, TAIS, AFATDS, DCGS-A, BCS3, FBCB2

- Define Mission Command Systems components to understand the role of the TMC Host contribution to the COP


Questions?

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United States Army Combined Arms Center Mission Command Systems Overview