Air and Missile Defense Workstation

Common planning and situational

awareness tools for units at all echelons

provides a tool for the tactical initialization of AMD weapon systems. It enables these sys-tems to operate in compliance with operations orders and weapon employment directives issued by higher Army or joint force headquarters. As a com-ponent of the Air and Missile Defense Planning and Control System (AMDPCS), AMDWS is fielded to air defense artillery brigades, battalions and bat-teries with AMD systems. Used throughout the force structure, AMDWS is deployed in all 10 Army divisions and has received high praise for its performance in current operations around the world.

AMDWS provides the air com-ponent of the Common Tactical Picture to the ABCS at division and corps levels and is the

Battlefield commanders re-quire accurate situational awareness information and

collaborative planning capabilities for effective battle management. Northrop Grumman’s Air and Missile Defense Workstation (AMDWS) has proven its ability to meet those critical needs on the battlefield. Northrop Grumman continues to improve AMDWS, the U.S. Army’s collaborative battle-space awareness information management system. The work-station provides common air and missile defense (AMD) planning and situational awareness tools to air defense artillery and other Army units at all echelons of com-mand, theater through fire unit.

Key FeaturesAMDWS contributes to combat effectiveness by retrieving, fusing and distributing time-sensitive

information needed for critical decision support. It retrieves battle-space awareness informa-tion from joint headquarters, the Army Battle Command System (ABCS) network, national intelli-gence assets, all source centers and tactical and strategic sensors. AMDWS uses this information to display combat operations, combining airborne-, ground- and space-based sensor input with automated planning tools as well as command and staff data. It distri-butes an integrated view of the battlefield over tactical and special purpose communications networks in near real-time, while supporting concurrent interaction with joint command and control networks, sensor sources and ABCS.

As the air and missile defense component of the ABCS, AMDWS

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CollaborativePlanning

JointInteroperability

ClearBattlefieldSituation

Upcoming AMDWS Capabilities• Shared Visualization

Situational Awareness: A common situational view on Windows laptops, using the Commercial Joint Mapping Toolkit (C/JMTK)

• Systems Interoperability: Interoperability with other Army programs via the Common Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) XML Schema (CIXS)

• Information Superiority: Web services for full net-centricity

interface for all components of the AMD force to ABCS. In addition, the workstation allows interoperability with joint air planning components:• Theater Battle Management

Core Systems (TBMCS)• Joint Defense Planner (JDP)• Missile Defense Agency’s

C2BMC Planner

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ADSIEO/Fire

Control System

ADSISituationalAwareness

AMDWS

AAMDC

BDE

BN/BTYWeapon System Unit

AMDWS

AMDWS

FAAD C2 (Avenger, SLAMRAAM)PATRIOTTHAAD

Wpn SysEngagementOperations

AMDWS- Unit-level planning- Engagement initialization

FAAD C2Co-hosted with

FBCB2

AMDWS- Air situation overlay to ABCS at each echelon- AD interface to ABCS at each echelon

TBMCSJDP

SAMOCC2BMC

TBMCSJDP

SAMOCC2BMC

AMDWS- Theater-level planning- Joint interfaces

AMDWS- Corps & theater- level planning- Engagement coordination

ASAS

FBCB2

AFATDS

MCS TAIS

BCS3

GCCS-A

ASAS

FBCB2

AFATDS

MCS TAIS

BCS3

GCCS-A

ASAS

FBCB2

AFATDS

MCS TAIS

BCS3

GCCS-A

TBMCSJDP

NATO C2C2BMC

TBMCSJDP

NATO C2C2BMC

TBMCSJDP

NATO C2C2BMC

TBMCSJDP

NATO C2C2BMC

A key element in the Army’s infrastructure, AMDWS provides critical horizontal and vertical interoperability, allowing integrated battle command.