Jordan to modernise artillery C2 software

A still from a video released on 28 October 2025 shows Jordanian gunners operating VT Miltope laptops. (Jordanian Armed Forces)

Raytheon has been awarded a USD15.4 million contract to update the Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) under a Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Jordan, the US Department of Defense announced on 17 December.

It said the work is expected to be completed by the end of 2029 but added no further details about the programme.

AFATDS is the command-and-control (C2) system used by the US military to call in fire support.

The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced in February 2020 that the US government had approved the sale to Jordan of up to 700 AFATDS licenses and associated equipment and services worth as much as USD300 million. It indicated the Jordanians were already using the system, saying “the upgrade and expansion of the AFATDS fire-control system will allow the JAF [Jordanian Armed Forces] to defend its borders and ground forces with indirect fire weapon systems”.

The US Army is currently replacing its AFATDS with a new system called AFATDS Artillery Execution Suite (AXS) to make it simpler to use and enable faster engagements, as well as making it easier to update in the future.

For more information, please see US Army artillery application to be first NGC2 app layer .