Isolated Personnel Survivability and Recovery

Abstract

This Program Element contains two projects tasked to provide Air Force aircrew updated survival equipment to assist in their recovery in the event they become Isolated Personnel (IP). Project 65412B (Isolated Personnel): The Isolated Personnel Survival and Flight Equipment (IPSAFE) program develops, and fields updates to aircrew survival kits to support climate specific equipment and aims to increase the ability for an IP to evade and survive in operational environments where rapid extraction is not possible. Project 654522 (CSAR EMD): The Next Generation Survival Radio (NGSR) program is an Air Force led development effort to replace the aging legacy Combat Survivor Evader Locator (CSEL) handheld radio for the entire Joint Force. NGSR plans to deliver communications capability supporting the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA) Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) mission to locate, authenticate, and communicate with Joint forces who become isolated. The NGSR program plans to become the primary Department of Defense (DoD) Program of Record (POR) to deliver secured end-to-end communication and locate and recover downed aircrew/special operations personnel. This program is in Budget Activity 5, System Development and Demonstration (SDD) because it has passed Milestone B approval and is conducting engineering and manufacturing development tasks aimed at meeting validated requirements prior to full rate production.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2024
Source ID
0207279F_5_3600_PB_2024
Change Summary Explanation
FY2024 - Program increase by 0.127M to support NGSR device development.
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Application Software
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Cryptography
  • Department Of Defense
  • Ground Stations
  • Mobile Devices
  • National Security
  • Product Prototyping
  • Search And Rescue
  • Software Development
  • Software Prototyping
  • Survival
  • Survival Equipment
  • Survival Kits
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Civilian Systems Systems Program Capability Development and Upgrade Support Activity Expense and Pay Management.
  • Manufacturing Engineering.

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