12 UNITED STATES ARMY Air/Missile Defense Planning and Control System (AMDPCS) (WRAP Candidate)

MISSION


As the backbone of air defense, provide Battle Management/
Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and
Intelligence (BM/C4I) capability to Air Defense Artillery (ADA)
Brigades, the Army Air and Missile Defense Command
(AAMDC) corps and echelons above corps headquarters, and
joint force command and control elements such as the
Battlefield Coordination Detachment (BCD).
DESCRIPTION AND SPECIFICATIONS
The AMDPCS provides ADA Brigades with a fire control system
via the Air Defense System Integrator (ADSI) for monitoring
and controlling engagement operations by subordinate battalions.
The AMDPCS provides a common air and missile
defense staff planning and battlespace situational awareness tool
via the Air and Missile Defense Workstation (ANDWS) to
achieve the common tactical and operational air picture. The
AMDWS, like ADSI, will be fielded to air and missile defense
units at all echelons of command, battery through theater. The
AMDPCS provides the Army Battle Command Systems (ABCS)
architecture and the Army Air and Missile Defense Task Forces
(AMDTF) with BM/C4I capability and the Army component of
interoperable Joint Theater Air and Missile Defense (JTAMD)
BM/C4I. The AMDPCS enables Active Passive, and Attack
Operations coordination with the joint forces. AMDPCS
(Project D169) was initiated with WRAP funding in FY99.


FOREIGN COUNTERPART
No known foreign counterpart


FOREIGN MILITARY SALES
None


PROGRAM STATUS
3QFY97 Approved operational requirements document.
4QFY97 Approved as acquisition category III program.
FY99 Fieldings to one ADA brigade (partial), AAMDC update,
ADA School update.


PROJECTED ACTIVITIES
FY00 Fielding 1 AAMDC Army National Guard (ARNG), 1
ADA brigade
FY01 Fielding 2 ADA brigades retrofit, battlefield coordination
detachment (BCD).
FY02 Fielding 2 ADA brigades retrofit.
FY03 Fielding 2 ADA brigades retrofit.
PRIME CONTRACTORS
Brigade FCS: APC (Austin, TX); Brown International
(Huntsville, AL)
AMDWS: FAADC2, TRW (Huntsville, AL); Patriot, Intergraph
(Huntsville, AL