While AFATDS is fully interoperable with joint systems, JADOCS pulls in coalition information for real-time targeting and fires coordination between multiple Joint and coalition forces.

SAVANNAH, Georgia—The U.S. Army is gearing up to replace a targeting process that depends on spreadsheets and PowerPoint decks with a smarter one that collates options automatically.But it can ...

Spc. Brantley Tercero with the 10th Mountain Division Artillery provides feedback on AFATDS AXS by completing a usability test. The test measures the system’s ease of use against stringent ...

The program executive office in February issued a request for information concerning the overhaul of AFATDS, which interfaces with more than 80 other systems, including some owned by the Air Force and ...

Defense contractor Leidos both works on the AFATDS 7.0 contract and worked on the legacy contract after it unseated Raytheon—which had fielded 13 AFATDS iterations since 1984—in 2016.

Leidos in 2017 won a contract worth tens of millions of dollars to work on AFATDS. The Virginia-based company at the time promised to improve functionality, update user interfaces and simplifying ...

Leidos won a contract Dec. 29 to deliver the next iteration of the Army’s Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System, unseating Raytheon as the long-time incumbent on the program.

Raytheon Company RTN recently secured a $26-million deal for delivering field artillery C3 and Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS). The company acquired the deal under the ...

AFATDS is a joint and coalition command and control fires support system. The deal with Leidos sets up a three-year contract with a two-year option worth $98 million, according to an Army ...

The US Army has announced contract award for its Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System 7.0 programme, which will modernise its fires command and control system.As outlined in the March 2016 ...

AFATDS, the Army's primary command-and-control system to direct the fire of artillery guns, performed "very well" in Operation Iraqi Freedom, program officials said at a briefing in Arlington, Va.