SPECIAL TACTICS/COMBAT CONTROL

Abstract

Battlefield Air Operations (BAO) Kit is a program within the overarching Battlefield Airmen Modernization (BA-Mod) Program. BAO Kit will develop a Family of Systems (FoS) that provides a state-of-the-art Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) suite for Air Force Special Operations Command's (AFSOC's) Battlefield Airmen. BAO Kit Increment II will enhance the three core capabilities of Line of Sight (LOS) targeting, Non Line of Sight (XLOS) targeting, and Battlefield Air Operations Human Machine Interface (BAO HMI) while reducing the risk of fratricide and substantially reducing the weight carried. This program will develop and enhance technologies for Battlefield Airmen Combat Controllers (CCT) to recognize, identify, range, nominate and designate targets during both day and night. BAO Kit will also significantly reduce the time required to find, fix, track, target and engage the enemy by providing highly accurate target grid coordinates in three dimensions, generating target imagery both pre and post-strike, and transmitting target data to Command and Control centers. All BAO Kit systems are light, compact and portable for use by dismounted Battlefield Airmen. The significant improvements in operational capability, BAO Kit Increment II, will build upon the HMI and Battlefield Air Targeting Micro Air Vechicle (BATMAV) efforts and deliver enhanced capability for the dismounted soldier in terms of dramatic weight reduction and increased mission effectiveness across the conflict spectrum. 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, 2012
• Source ID: 0408011F_7_3600_PB_2012
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2011 funding contains $10.325M for Overseas Contingency Operations.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Battlefields
• Combat Control Teams
• Command And Control
• Command And Control Centers
• Computers
• Contingency Operations (Military)
• Cost Analysis
• Data Links
• Digital Data
• Fuel Cells
• Human-Machine Interfaces
• Line Of Sight
• Remotely Piloted Vehicles
• Targeting
• Targets
• Test And Evaluation
• Warfare

Readers

• Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control