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Army Battle Command System

EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW
A High Level Overview of Digital Products Available to
the First Digitized Force
September 1998
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Objective

To explain the capabilities of the Army Battle

Command System and how those capabilities,
when used together, provide the synergy
necessary to greatly multiply the force

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Overview

¥Introduction
¥Overview
¥ABCS systems
¥Supporting systems
¥Interoperability
¥Summary

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Army Battle Command System XXI

ABCS
Global Command and Control System -Army (GCCS-A)
Strategic, Theater, and Echelons Above Corps

Army Tactical Command and Control System (ATCCS)

Corps to Battalion
¥ ASAS ¥ IMETS
¥ AFATDS ¥ CGS
¥ CSSCS ¥ DTSS
¥ AMDW/S ¥ BPV
¥ MCS

Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below

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Global Command and Control

System - Army

Supporting Systems
GCCS-A

ATCCS

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Global Command and Control System -

Army
(GCCS-A)

Mission Area: Provides force tracking, host nation and

civil affairs support, theater air defense, targeting,
psychological operations, C2, logistics, medical and
personnel status. Deployed from theater (EAC) elements
down to the Corps. Army link to the Global Command
and Control System (GCCS).

Location: CMAIN, CREAR

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(GCCS-A) XXI

Major Capabilities:

¥ Army worldwide and standard theater Army command and

control system

¥ Combat service support system for Echelons Above Corps

¥ Planning, execution, and monitoring of mobilization,

deployment, sustainment, and redeployment of Army forces

¥ Supports joint, combined, and special operations, and

Operations Other Than War
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ATCCS Systems

S UP PO RT INGS Y S TE MS CSSCS

AMDW/S

ASAS RWS AFATDS

MCS

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MANEUVER CONTROL SYSTEM XXI

(MCS)
Mission Area: Provides corps through battalion force level
commanders and staffs the ability to collect, coordinate
and act on near real time battlefield information and to
graphically visualize the battlefield.
Primary Locations:

XX

X
XXX
CORPS CMD GRP
SIG BN TOC BDE TOCs
CMD GRP BN TOCs
DI V A RT Y XX
DMAIN

X
DTAC ALOCS CAV S QDN

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MCS XXI
Major Capabilities:

¥Integrates information horizontally and vertically to provide

the common picture of friendly and enemy unit locations

¥Using MS Word templates & web browser technology

provides the ability to develop and distribute battle plans and
orders

¥ÔShowmeÕ whiteboard and audio provides the capability to

conduct multinode collaborative planning sessions

¥Displays current status of personnel, equipment and supplies

to support resource management command/staff decision-
making
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MCS XXI

Maps and Overlays

Corps graphic
control measures and
current unit (friendly
and enemy) locations
from day 6 of the
DAWE superimposed
on an electronic map
background

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All Source Analysis System XXI

Remote Workstation
(ASAS RWS)
Mission Area: Provides battle commanders with analyzed
intelligence and unanalyzed combat information.
Primary Locations:

XX

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CORPS XXX

CMD GRP
DI V A RT Y BN TOCs
XX BDE TOCs
DMAIN
CAV S QDN

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DTAC

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ASAS RWS

Major Capabilities:

¥ Provides enemy situation awareness through ASAS

all source (correlated, analyzed intelligence), sensor
feeds (UAV, JSTARS), SALUTE reports, and
combat information

¥ Receives and displays imagery from national,

theater, and tactical sources

¥ Database and analysis tools assist in collection

management and IPB functions

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ASAS RWS
Imagery

The ASAS RWS can

display imagery from a
variety of sources This
is an example of an
annotated UAV image
of five armored
personnel carriers
moving SE at
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Advanced Field Artillery XXI

Tactical Data System

(AFATDS)
Mission Area: Provides command, control and
communications (C3) for the US Army and Marine Corps
cannon, rockets, missiles, mortars, close air support, and
naval surface weapon systems.
Primary Locations:

XX
XXX
CORPS CMD GRP BN TOCs

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DI V A RT Y FDCs
CMD GRP BDE TOCs
DMAIN
XX

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DTAC CAV S QDN

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AFATDS XXI
Major Capabilities:

¥Weapon-target pairing based on target type, commanderÕs

guidance, unit availability, weapon status, and ammunition
availability

¥Digital situational awareness from Army, Marine, and Air

Force ground and air based sensors, and other C3 systems

¥Automatic data distribution for timely coordination

¥Horizontal and vertical coordination through exchange of

messages, maps, and graphics overlays

¥Planning tools include fire support planning, routes, and

course of action analysis
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AFATDS
Fire Support Coverage

Fire support
coverage shows
current locations,
range fans and areas
of responsibility on
an electronic map
background

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Air & Missile Defense Workstation
(AMDW/S)
Mission Area: Provides the commander with the ability to
electronically generate and display weapon and sensor
locations, manipulate map graphics, conduct terrain analysis,
analyze and monitor missions in near-real time.

Primary Locations:

XX

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CORPS XXX

DTAC BDE TOCs ADA BN

DMAIN
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AMDWS XXI
Major Capabilities:

¥Defense Planning & Analysis, supports the development of

ADA missions, distributes and merges missions between
echelons

¥Notifies other BFAs of potential enemy air strikes and TBM

launch point and impact

¥Displays air control orders, current fire unit status, alert

posture, missile expenditure, and personnel ready for duty for
Air Battle Management

¥ Sensor-to-Shooter early warning and cueing provides audible

& visual alert of enemy aircraft, allows fire units to slew to cue
on the highest threat aircraft in their sector
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AMDWS XXI

Mission Planning

Line of sight
profiler aids in
weapon/sensor
placement using
digitized terrain
elevation data and
weapon/sensor
capability

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Combat Service Support XXI
Control System
(CSSCS)
Mission Area: Battlefield decision support and situation
awareness for planning and controlling the logistics support of
combat operations. CSSCS provides material and personnel
status of units and identifies logistical capability to resupply
units for subsequent combat operations.
Primary Locations:
XXX

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D I V I S I O NM A I N
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BDE ALOCs ,
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DISCOM
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CSSCS XXI
Major Capabilities:

¥ Resource Status Summaries display current logistics

information by class of supply, item, or unit as color coded
charts or detailed tabular reports
¥ Course of Action Analysis as deliberate or ÒquickÓ analysis,
uses either current or planned task organization based upon
approved planning factors
¥ Unit Task Organization tracks task organization to company
level, provides a structure for resource tracking
¥ CommanderÕs Tracked Items List (CTIL), a subset of
Baseline Resource Items List (BRIL) which includes those
items of Command Interest and Command Controlled Items
that are tracked by CSSCS

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Gumball Report

Color coded
ÔgumballsÕ indicate
authorized /
operational status
by class of supply
and unit

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Supporting Systems

DTSS
BPV
CSSCS
IMETS

CGS
AMDWS

AFATDS
ASAS RWS MCS

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Integrated Meteorological System XXI

(IMETS)
Mission Area: Provides high resolution current and prognostic
meteorological data and weather effects

Primary Locations: CMAIN, DMAIN, and Special Operations

Forces

Major Capabilities:
¥Provides Integrated Weather Effects Decision Aid (IWEDA)
client to all BFAs for determining and displaying weather
impacts on weapons systems
¥Makes available weather overlays via the MCS Maps and
Overlays clients

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Digital Topographic Support System XXI

(DTSS)
Mission Area: Provides automated terrain analysis products
and reproduction in support of terrain visualization, IPB, C2,
and other decision making processes

Primary Locations: DMAIN, Brigade TOCs

Major Capabilities:
¥High speed plotter produces full color, hard copy paper products
¥Large format scanner for importing maps not available in digital
format
¥TEM interface produces digital maps for use on BFACS
¥Terrain analysis models provide a variety of topographic
products

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Common Ground Station XXI

(CGS)
Mission Area: Acquire, process, display, and disseminate
data from multiple real-time sensors.

Primary Locations: Corps, DMAIN, DTAC, BDE TOCs

Major Capabilities:
¥ Real-time display of MTI, FTI, SAR, IR imagery, UAV video
imagery, SIGINT, ELINT

¥ Displays are geo-referenced to digital maps

¥ Watchdog areas and AOIs allow automated monitoring of

the battlefield
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Battle Planning / Visualization
(BPV)
Mission Area: Animated COA analysis, wargaming, planning,
IPB and rehearsal tool

Primary Locations: DMAIN, BDE TOCs

Major Capabilities:
¥ Animates planned/predicted unit movements
¥ Two and three dimensional representation of terrain, friendly
and enemy unit locations, and planned unit movement scenarios
¥ Receives unit locations and UTOs from MCS, enemy unit
locations from ASAS

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Force XXI Battle Command XXI

Brigade and Below

(FBCB2)

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Force XXI Battle Command
Brigade and Below
(FBCB2)
Mission Area: Situational awareness - provides a seamless
battle command capability to all leaders at brigade-and-
below. Provides horizontal and vertical integration of the
information generating and processing capabilities of
individual weapons, sensors, and platforms.

Primary Locations: Vehicular platforms

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FBCB2 XXI
Major Capabilities:

¥ Real time situational awareness of friendly platform locations

¥ Displays reported enemy and unknown unit locations

¥ Displays Ògeo-referencedÓ spot reports, calls for fire, and

NBC 1 reports

¥ ÒShort formÓ MEDEVAC requests, call for fire, NBC1

reports and spot reports

¥ Order and overlay creation and dissemination

¥ Logistics and personnel reports

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Interoperability
¥Communications Devices
¥ATCCS Interoperability
Client-server
USMTF messages
Netscape
File Transfer Protocol
¥FBCB2/ATCCS Interoperability
VMF messages
¥Joint Interoperability
GCCS MCS
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WarfighterÕs Information Network

Communications Devices
Force XXI
Primary Communications Devices
Single Channel Grou nd Air
Mobile Subscriber Equipment Radio System (SINCGARS)
(MSE) System Improvement Program
(SIP)

Integrated Network N ear T er m D i gi tal R ad i o

Controller
(INC) (NTDR)

( Globa l B roadc ast S atel lite )

BADD
Enhanced Position Location Battlefield Awareness
Reporting System Data Dissemination GBS
REACHBACK

(EPLRS) (BADD) & THEA TER

DATA
DARPA
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ATCCS Interoperability

¥Client-server

¥USMTF messages

¥Netscape

¥File Transfer Protocol

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Wide Area Network

TOC Local Area Networks
¥USMTF
¥Netscape
¥FTP

TOC Local Area Network

¥Client Server
¥USMTF
¥Netscape
¥FTP

TOC Local Area Networks

TOC Local Area Networks
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Client - Server XXI

Services available:

¥ MCS - Maps and Overlays,

UTO,
OPORD

¥ CSSCS - Reports, BRIL/CTIL (read only)

¥ IMETS - Integrated Weather Effects Decision Aid

(IWEDA)

¥ GCCS-A - CommanderÕs Force Analyzer (CFA)

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Client - Server Example XXI

¥Workstations on a local area network, in the same TOC

¥Each workstation performing its unique function
¥Any workstation, acting as a client, can request information
¥Responding workstation, as server, provides Ôrole specificÕ
information

CSSCS AFATDS

Any workstation Client workstation

can request operator can create,
MCS Maps and MCS view, edit and save
Overlays from SITMAPS on the
the MCS server MCS server

ASAS RWS AMDWS

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USMTF Messages XXI

A423 Orders* S201 Battlefield Geometry*

C110 Intelligence Report S302 Free Text*
C241 Mission Fired Report S305 Target Intelligence Data
C400 Cdrs SITREP S308 Target Coordinate Report
C521 Weather Forecast S309 Enemy Data*
C523 Severe Weather Warning S503 Mobility Status
D210 Call For Fire S507L Unit Location*
D281 Cdrs Target Criteria S507R Resource Data*
E500 Air Strike Warning S507S Supply Point Data
G131 Intelligence Summary S508 Supply Constraints
G880 Personnel Status S509 CTIL

* Key Messages

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ATCCS XXI

AFATDS Message Interoperability ASAS

CDRÕS SITREP C400 OPORD A423

Battlefield Geometry S201 Battlefield Geometry S201
Unit Location S507L Free Text S302 Free Text S302
Free Text S302 Free Text S302 CDRÕS SITREP C400 Intelligence Summary G131
Unit Location S507L Intelligence Report C110
OPORD A423 Unit Location S507L Enemy Data S309
CDRÕS SITREP C400

CDRÕS SITREP C400

Unit Location S507L
MCS Unit Location S507L
Free Text S302 OPORD A423 Air Strike Warning E500
CTIL S509 CDRÕS SITREP C400 CDRÕS SITREP C400
Personnel Status G880 Free Text S302 Free Text S302
OPORD A423
Supply Point Data S507S Supply Point Data S507S Free Text S302
Resource Data S507R Resource Data S507R PERSTAT G880
Unit Location S507L Battlefield Geometry S201
Personnel Status G880 CDRÕS SITREP C400
Not e: R epresents t echni cal capabili t y , operat ional
CSSCS employment based on mission threads AMDW/S
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ATCCS Netscape XXI

¥ View the database on any AFATDS on the WAN

¥ View images and information posted by the G2 on

ASAS

¥ View and retrieve SITMAPs and orders stored on

any MCS

¥ CSSCS and AMDWS home pages are being

developed

¥ Use ÔbookmarksÕ to return to critical or frequently

used products
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AFATDS XXI

Main Menu

From the AFATDS home

page, a user can select
from four major
categories : PLANS,
GUIDANCES,
LOGISTICS, and
AFATDS product
available on all BFACS TARGETS

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ASAS XXI
Home Page
From the ASAS
homepage the user
can select On Line
Reference, On Line
Training and
images and text
posted by the
intelligence
community
ASAS product
available on all BFACS

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MCS Home Page XXI

From the MCS home

page, the user can select
MCS help and
documentation, or
OPORDs, SITMAPs,
UTOs and the DCE Cell
Organization Tool
MCS product
available on all BFACS

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Netscape example XXI
1
3
ASAS operator selects
ÒACCESS WWWÓ from 2
Operator selects a
ÒCOMMON FUNCTIONSÓ, 1st BDE workstation
types MVR number of local
MCS as ÔLocationÕ
2nd BDE PLANS CELL 4
MCS ASAS
Operator selects
DCE CELL TOOL Operator selects
SITMAPs
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6
RS&S Plan is displayed;
Can be saved to local MCS
workstation SITMAP files
1st BDE
Operator selects
ÒRS&S_Plan.sitmapÓ

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File Transfer Protocol Tool

¥Transfers files, point to
point, between MCS and
ASAS devices on the
LAN or WAN
¥Can be used to transfer
MS Word documents
between and among
MCS and ASAS
workstations
¥ Can be used to transfer
Available on SITMAP files between
MCS and ASA S
MCS workstations

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FBCB2/ATCCS Interoperability XXI

Tactical Internet

S I NC G A RS
EPLRS

TOC Local Area Network

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FBCB2/ATCCS XXI

VMF Message Interoperability

ASAS
AMDWS
MCS
Position Report K0501 Spot/Salute Report
Threat Warning K0452
Free Text K0150
K0553
NBC-1 K0561 Observed Position
Observed Position
Report K0499 Report K0499
Free Text K0150
Field Orders K0554 Overlay Message K0552

Overlay Message K0552

FBCB2 Jump Points

Call for Fire K0204
Subsequent adjust K0222
End of Mission
Logistics report Surveillance K0216
K0750 Check Fire K0202
Observed Position Observer Notification K0206
Report K0499 Message to Observer K0214

CSSCS AFATDS
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Joint Interoperability XXI

GCCS

* CommanderÕs Force
MARINE ARMY Analyzer Client
CORPS AIR FORCE NAVY *Friendly Locations
*Maps & Overlays Client * Enemy Locations
*Friendly Locations *Battlefield
* Enemy Locations Geometry
*Battlefield Geometry
MCS
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SUMMARY

¥ABCS
¥GCCS-A
¥ATCCS Systems
¥Supporting Systems
¥FBCB2
¥ABCS Interoperability

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ASAS XXI
Message Interoperability
MCS AFATDS

Intelligence Report C110

Target Intelligence Data S305
Enemy Interop S309
Intelligence Summary G131
Intelligence Summary G131 Intel Report C110 Free Text S302
Free Text S302 Free Text S302 Enemy Interop S309
OPORD A423 Artillery Target Report C281
Free Text S302
CDRÕS SITREP C400 Mission Fire Report C241
Battlefield Geometry S201 Target Coordinate Request S308
Unit Location S507L

Air Strike Warning E500

ASAS Free Text S302
Free Text S302 Free Text S302
Free Text S302
Enemy Data S309
Intelligence Report C110
Intelligence Report C110
Intelligence Summary G131
Intelligence Summary G131

CSSCS Not e: R epresents t echni cal capabili t y , operat ional

AMDW/S
employment based on mission threads.
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AFATDS XXI

MCS
Message Interoperability ASAS

CDRÕS SITREP C400 Intelligence Summary G131

Free Text S302
Unit Location S507L Enemy Interop S309
Free Text S302 Free Text S302
Free Text S302 Target Coordinate Request S308
OPORD A423 Target Intelligence Data S305 Mission Fire Report C241
CDRÕS SITREP C400 Artillery Target Report C281
Battlefield Geometry S201

Free Text S302 Air Strike Warning E500

CTIL S509 AFATDS
Call For Fire D210 Free Text S302 Free Text S302
Supply Point Data S507S Resource Data S507R Free Text S302
Supply Constraints S508 Mobility Status S503
Unit Location S507L
Mission Fired Report C241 AMDW/S
CSSCS Not e: R epresents t echni cal capabili t y , operat ional
employment based on mission threads
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Message Interoperability
MCS AFATDS

CDRÕS SITREP C400 Air Strike Warning E500

Air Strike Warning E500 Free Text S302
Free Text S302 Free Text S302 Free Text S302
OPORD A423 Unit Location S507L Battlefield Geometry S201
CDRÕS SITREP C400
Battlefield Geometry S201

Air Strike Warning E500

Free Text S302 AMDW/S Free Text S302
Resource Data S507R Free Text S302
Supply Constraints S508 Free Text S302
Supply Point Status S507S Enemy Data S309
Air Strike Warning E500
Resource Data S507R Intelligence Report C110
Intelligence Summary G131

CSSCS Not e: R epresents t echni cal capabili t y , operat ional

ASAS
employment based on mission threads
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MCS
Message Interoperability AFATDS

Personnel Status G880 Call For Fire D210

Resource Data S507R Free Text S302
Unit Location S507L Supply Point Status S507S Free Text S302
Free Text S302 Mission Fired Report C241
CDRÕS SITREP C400 CDRÕS SITREP C400 Supply Constraints S508
Free Text S302 CTIL S509 Mobility Status S503
Unit Location S507L Unit Location S507L
Resource Data S507R OPORD A423
Resource Data S507R
Supply Point Status S507S
Personnel Status G880
CTIL S509
Air Strike Warning E500
Resource Data S507R
Intelligence Summary G131 CSSCS CTIL S509
Free Text S302
Intelligence Report C110 Free Text S302
Free Text S302 Free Text S302 Supply Point Status S507S
Supply Constraints S508

ASAS Not e: R epresents t echni cal capabili t y , operat ional AMDW/S

employment based on mission threads
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