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Fire Distribution Center: - Ensuring Mission Success

The document discusses the Fire Distribution Center (FDC), a proven air defense command and control system. The FDC provides flexible battle management command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (BMC4I) capabilities. It can be configured for different roles and has over 15 customers. The FDC ensures shared situational awareness and integrated multi-domain operations.

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Fire Distribution Center: - Ensuring Mission Success

The document discusses the Fire Distribution Center (FDC), a proven air defense command and control system. The FDC provides flexible battle management command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (BMC4I) capabilities. It can be configured for different roles and has over 15 customers. The FDC ensures shared situational awareness and integrated multi-domain operations.

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FIRE DISTRIBUTION CENTER

FDC - Fire Distribution Center


- Ensuring Mission Success

The Fire Distribution Center (FDC) is a proven and fielded Air Defence
BMC4I module. With its State-of-the-Art technology it delivers a scalable,
mobile and intuitive BMC4I for current and future Air Defence missions. The
FDC has an open SW/HW architecture to enable fully netted and distributed
operations. The architecture enables insertion of new technology and
capabilities.

The FDC ensures BMC4I functionality for any true mixed and layered Air
FEATURES Defence system configuration in national and multi-national scenarios.
•
The world’s leading C2 More than 200 FDCs are delivered as the BMC4I module for NASAMS,
for Air Defence Coastal Defence, HAWK and BOC programs.
•
15 current customers
•
Provides flexible BMC4I at The FDC is the C2 node of the NASAMS air defence system. The various
any organizational level
AMRAAM models, AIM-9X and AMRAAM ER have all been fired from
•
Weapon and Sensor NASAMS. More than 10 different sensors have been integrated with the FDC.
independent
Standard tactical data links as well as several national proprietary data
•
Interfaces a range of
Tactical Data Links, links are fully integrated, consequently the FDC enables full interoperability
including all NATO with national, EU and NATO forces.
standards
• Open Tactical The FDC has embedded training, simulation and recording functionality.
Framework SW, enabling
future growth and customer A high degree of commonality, use of Commercial-Of-The-Shelf (COTS)
added functionality and Non-Developmental Items represent a low risk-low Life Cycle Cost
• Fully netted and distributed (LCC) to satisfy current and evolving Air Defence requirements. The FDC
Air & Missile Defence has reduced manpower requirements compared to competitive systems.
(AMD) operations

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Fire Distribution Center (FDC)
The FDC is characterized by its intuitive advanced fire control system with hard
real-time data handling. The intuitive Man-Machine Interface provides clarity
and mitigates information overload. The open and modular SW/HW architecture
enables situational awareness across domains, providing merged Offensive and
Defensive Precision Fires capabilities in a true Plug & Fight tailorable solution.
The FDC has demonstrated C2 and Fire Control Capability for Multi-Domain
Fires. A network of FDCs ensures shared awareness in the Area of Operations.

The system performs data link management, sensor control, air picture production,
track identification and classification, friendly protection, threat evaluation, weapon
allocation, weapon & engagement control and kill assessment. In addition an
embedded or stand-alone Mission Support Tool (MST) is provided to accelerate
the commander’s decision making process regarding deployment planning,
monitoring current system status, and for in-depth analysis and debriefs.

Flexible Configuration
The same baseline FDC is used in multiple programs in various roles, delivering
a true multi-domain capability. Functionality, interfaces and number of work stations
can be selected and tailored to customer requirements. For mobility the FDC
is shelter and vehicle independent and can also be delivered as a non-shelter
version. Static versions can be mounted tailored to customer requirements based
on the FDC interior. The following FDC configurations are available:
BOC – Battalion Operation Center. A BOC can control multiple Air Defence
Battalions or other weapon systems.
GBADOC - Ground Based Air Defence Operation Center. A Higher Echelon GBAD
C2 unit including a Current operations cell, a Planning cell, a Communications cell
and real-time engagement operations.
BFDC (HAWK) - Battery FDC in HAWK role to control up to 2 HAWK firing sections
and network up to other FDCs in the battery.
NASAMS FDC (AMRAAM) - The FDC in Fixed Wing, Helicopter, UAV, UCAS,
Cruise Missile Defence role with defined tactical data links, sensor and weapon
interfaces. Primary effectors are AMRAAM, AMRAAM Extended Range and
AIM-9X.
FDC-S (SHORAD/VSHORAD) - Optimized to control and coordinate SHORAD/
VSHORAD weapon systems.
FDC - Coastal Defence – Interfaces and controls sensors and weapons for
Coastal Defence and surface-to-surface operations firing the Naval Strike Missile
(NSM).
FDC - Precision Fires - Optimizing the use of an Army tactical air space to
coordinate Multi-Domain Fires. The FDC gives the Army Battle Commander
the tool he needs to coordinate all Precision Fires resources in real-time.

Interoperability and integration - a key FDC capability


The FDC truly integrates systems, sensors and effectors into ONE system. Higher
Echelon Units, adjacent units, sensors, effectors and other battle forces are integrated
through the mature and fielded Network Access Nodes utilizing fielded legacy
protocols.

The FDC has a wide range of fielded logical decision support tools ensuring ONE
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Integrated Air Picture, Common Operational Picture, Threat Evaluation and


KONGSBERG DEFENCE & AEROSPACE AS
P.O. Box 1003 Weapon Allocation, providing a consistent Battle Command for all forces.
N-3601 Kongsberg, Norway

Phone: +47 32 28 82 00 The integration of tactical data links in the FDC handles relevant messages according
[email protected] to the standard message catalogue, and the implementation of functionality in
the C4I software, to support the needed level of system interoperability. Such
functionality undertakes the sequence of events, leading to maximized coordination
between the FDC and other actors in the Multi-Domain Battle Space.

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