Mission Planning Systems
Abstract
Mission planning involves the creation of a flight plan based on multiple inputs including threats, targets, terrain, weather, aircraft performance capability, and configuration. The technology will provide wide area targeting quality data at scale and with operationally useful latency in dense, stressing contested time sensitive environments. Mission Planning is an essential task that must be completed prior to any fixed- or rotary wing aircraft sortie. The planner must have the ability to plan weapon, cargo, passenger, and/or fuel delivery, calculate fuel requirements, and assess the route based on known enemy threat location and type. Mission planners must be able to: Optimize and de-conflict flight routes with other aircraft; Review, print, and brief the plan; Download pertinent flight information to on-board aircraft avionics; And, conduct dynamic/in-flight re-planning as applicable. The MPS program is a collaborative program with the U.S. Navy to leverage technical solutions and business practices for most Department of Defense (DoD) platforms. It provides automated mission planning tools and support for fixed- and rotary wing aircraft and guided munitions. It replaces two closed architecture legacy mission planning systems (UNIX-based MPS (UNIX-MPS) and the PC-based Portable Flight Planning Software (PFPS)), with a single multi-service, open architecture system, frequently referred to as JMPS. MPS has continually compressed the mission planning cycle by providing an improved integrated planning environment, reducing the time required to respond to changing situations and urgent needs such as striking time sensitive/critical targets and conducting combat search and rescue. MPS products have the potential to support all DoD fixed-wing and rotary wing aircraft and are shared with the selected programs in the U.S. Navy. MPS delivers significant benefits to command and control performance by enhancing information superiority for the warfighter and by providing unique capabilities in support of both precision engagement and dominant maneuver. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver Mission Planning System capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY21 $0.281M was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY22 $0.732M is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Source ID
- 0208006F_7_3600_PB_2023
- Change Summary Explanation
- "The FY 2022 President's Budget submittal did not reflect FY 2023 through FY 2026 funding. Therefore, an explanation of the change between the two budget positions for FY2023 cannot be made in a relevant manner.”
- Service Agency Name
- Air Force
Entities
Organizations
- United States Air Force
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