Aircraft Avionics

Abstract

A portion of this funding line is directly aligned to the Assured Positioning, Navigation, & Timing (APNT) Army Modernization Priority. The Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget request funds the development of Aircraft Avionics systems required to horizontally and vertically integrate the battlefield and the integration of those systems into Army aircraft. Tasks in this Program Element support research, development, and test efforts in the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phases of these systems. Alternate capabilities (non-GPS) and/or complimentary PNT solutions will be investigated, studied, evaluated and developed as standalone or blended navigation functions. The Enhanced Aviation Global Air Traffic Management (GATM) Localizer Performance with Vertical Guidance (LPV) Embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) Inertial Navigation System (EGI) (EAGLE-M) development program upgrades existing EGI hardware by incorporating M-Code to provide Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (A-PNT) capability in a GPS degraded environment. The Alternate Position, Navigation, and Time (ALT-PNT) enables precise navigation and timing during Multidomain Operations (MDO) operations in the absence of GPS by leveraging ALT-NAV and Vision Based Navigation (VBN) efforts and providing a secure and reliable fused PNT solution utilizing new and existing high-grade sensors available on manned aviation aircraft. ALT-PNT utilizes Modular Open System Architecture (MOSA) standards allowing rapid and affordable platform integration, adopting of new technologies, and adjustment to changes in adversarial capability. The Aviation Mission Common Server (AMCS) is an obsolescence replacement and capability upgrade for the current Army Improved Data Modem (IDM) 401, which enables the hosting of applications to communicate, navigate, sense, and deploy weapon systems across the Joint Force in support of Army 2030 and future aviation operations. It supports the future Common Digital Backbone for the enduring and future Army Aviation fleets with the ability for further growth to host flight critical capabilities. It will provide the ability to rapidly apply technology upgrades utilizing a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) with a nonproprietary Open Systems Architecture (OSA) to keep pace with evolving threats in the Multi-Domain Battlefield. The Improved Data Modem (IDM) is the common solution for digitizing Army Aviation and is fielded on every modernized, rotary-wing Army aircraft, including the CH-47 Chinook, AH-64 Apache and UH-60 Black Hawk. The IDM provides the Army rotary wing fleet with critical communication capabilities, enables connectivity to multiple radios used by rotary-wing aircraft and the Blue Force Tracking transceiver, and provides the means for rapid data transfer. The Aviation Mission Planning System (AMPS) is a system used to conduct pre-mission and aircraft performance planning. It receives data from multiple sources and provides that data digitally to the aircraft to support aviation missions. AMPS is used for automated mission planning, risk assessment, and transfer of mission data to aviation platforms within an Aviation unit. This includes route generation, performance planning, communications planning, terrain analysis, data transfer, and mission rehearsal. These efforts include development and testing of a new underlying architecture to support the move of Army Aviation Mission Planning from the current structure to one that supports synchronization both vertically and horizontally between Aviation and Ground forces. It will allow aircrews to continually plan and update route, threat, and performance data throughout all phases of an Aviation mission. Development of a mobile aircraft performance planning/weight and balance calculator is currently underway and will be the first migration of AMPS capabilities to a mobile hardware agnostic environment. The AN/ARC-220 High Frequency (HF) Radio is a US Army rotary wing high frequency solution which is operational on over 2,400 Army helicopters (primarily CH-47, UH-60, and AH-64). Key capabilities are voice and data, Automatic Link Establishment, text messaging, position reporting, and Selective Calling. It is also Voice Interoperable with standard ground HF systems in use today. Efforts include development of an Airborne Radio Control Manager (ARCM) driver to enhance the modernization of the AN/ARC-220 HF Radio.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 0604201A_5_2040_PB_2024
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2024 base procurement funding in the amount of $11.100 million was realigned from AA0712FPEP to PE 0604201A / Aircraft Avionics Project VU3 to support AMCS developmental activities.
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Kinetic Weapons

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Traffic
• Aircrafts
• Army Aircraft
• Army Aviation
• Data Transmission
• Engineering
• Frequency
• Global Positioning Systems
• Guidance
• Inertial Navigation
• Inertial Navigation Systems
• Navigation
• Open System Architecture
• Product Development
• Rotary Wing Aircraft
• Small Business
• Test And Evaluation

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.

Technology Areas

• Space