Indirect Fire-Forward Air Control Trainer

In Operation Today at AGOS, Nellis AFB, NV

”Significantly Improving Initial GFAC Training"

World’s First Commercially Available Terminal Attack Control System

- Joint SDS/FATS Low-Cost, PC-Based Product Designed to Enhance Initial/

Continuation Training for Ground-Based Forward Air Controllers (GFAC)

- Provides Multiple Configurations to Support Classroom and Deployed Training

Portable Laptop and PC-Based Versions

Can be Enhanced with Large Screen Projection and Helmet Mounted Displays

Accommodates use of Actual Laser Range Find/Marking Systems

- Incorporates both Virtual and Pilot-in-the-Loop GFAC Training Capabilities

Virtual – FATS’ Forward Observer Trainer with SDS’ AAcuity® PC-IG

Pilot-in-the-Loop -- SDS’ LiteFlite® Reconfigurable Flight Simulator

- Provides Realistic Databases, Environmental, and Special Effects

- Supports Joint Forward Air Control Training Objectives

The USAF Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) has selected the new Indirect Fire-Forward

Air Control Trainer (I-FACT) simulation system from Firearms Training Systems, Inc. (FATS)

as the baseline for a joint close air support spiral development effort.