Multi-Mssn Helicopter Upgrade Dev

Abstract

This Program Element includes funding for the development and support of future systems and improvements to current systems of the MH-60R/S. The MH-60R/S Multi-Mission helicopter provides battle group protection and adds significant capability in coastal littorals and regional conflicts. The MH-60R represents a significant avionics improvement to the H-60 series helicopters by enhancing primary mission areas of undersea warfare and surface warfare which includes the fast attack craft/fast in-shore attack craft (FAC/FIAC) threat response capabilities. Secondary MH-60R mission areas include search and rescue, vertical replenishment, naval surface fire support, logistics support, personnel transport and medical evacuation. The MH-60S Multi-Mission helicopter conducts search and rescue, vertical replenishment, and airhead operations. Armed Helo and Airborne Mine Countermeasures (AMCM) were added as primary mission areas for the MH-60S as block upgrades to the platform. AMCM provides the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) the airborne portion of the Mine Countermeasures Mission Package (MCM MP). Armed Helo provides Special Warfare Support, Combat Search and Rescue, Surface Warfare and Maritime Interdiction Operations capability to address FAC/FIAC threat. MH-60S secondary roles include torpedo and drone recovery, noncombatant evacuation operations, and SEAL team and Explosive Ordnance Disposal support. The MH-60R Helicopter Infrared Suppression System (HIRSS) project was cancelled in FY 2015 after an engineering analysis determined that the temperature of the engine exhaust may cause heat damage to the avionics systems in the vicinity of the HIRSS. FY 2016 - FY 2017 funding previously budgeted for HIRSS will now be used to analyze and evaluate active/passive aircraft survivability equipment. FY 2017 budget request funds Very High Frequency Omni Ranging/Instrument Landing System, active/passive aircraft survivability equipment, and SLAP assessment of MH-60R aircraft structure and subsystem conditions as well as MH-60S Fixed Forward Firing Weapons/rockets corrections of deficiencies.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2017
Source ID
0604216N_5_1319_PB_2017
Change Summary Explanation
Decrease in Multi-Mssn Helicopter Upgrade Dev by $0.221M as required for the Department of the Navy to comply with the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. Schedule: HIRSS project cancelled; therefore, HIRSS schedule items removed. Technical: Commencing in FY 2017, this Program Element 0604216N, Project Unit 1707, changes from MH-60R Development to MH-60 Development to encompass both MH-60R and MH-60S activities.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antisubmarine Warfare
  • Data Links
  • Detection
  • Engineering
  • Explosive Ordnance Disposal
  • Instrument Landings
  • Littoral Combat Ships
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Support
  • Medical Evacuation
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Program Management
  • Search And Rescue
  • Submarine Warfare
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs

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