EA-18 Squadrons
Abstract
Decrease in EA-18 SQUADRONS by $4.853M as required for the Department of the Navy to comply with the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. The EA-18G is replacing the EA-6B aircraft as the primary Electronic Attack platform supporting the Navy and Marine Corps, as the EA-6B is fully phased out the EA-18G will be the sole EA aircraft in the inventory. Capabilities of the EA-18G weapon system and ancillary equipment can be upgraded to accommodate and incorporate new or enhanced weapons as well as advances in technology to respond effectively to emerging future threats. E/A-18G "Flight Plan" spiral capability development is critical to the baseline of the EA-18G next generation mission system capability and maintaining tactical relevance in support of Navy Aviation Plan 2030. Development continues for design and integration of avionics systems, integration of Jamming Techniques Optimization improvements, evolutionary software upgrades via the System Configuration Set block builds and related testing. Continued advanced development engineering for improvements in reliability and maintainability are required to ensure maximum benefit is achieved through reduced cost of ownership and to provide enhanced availability. The FY 2017 funding request was increased by $45M for improvements to the ALQ-218 Complex Emitter. This funds a combination hardware/software solution to the ALQ-218 receiver to enable low band geo-location, faster geo-location response times, improved location, identification, and probability of intercept by enabling the EA-18G to detect and identify radio frequency emitters with complex waveforms that typically are not able to be detected or identified using traditional methods. Provide foundational capabilities needed in the Digital Memory Unit and processor elements of the ALQ-218.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- 0604269N_5_1319_PB_2017
- Change Summary Explanation
- Technical: FYDP Improvements to the ALQ-218 complex emitter to significantly improve lowband geo-location, signal detection, and identification capabilities. FY17 increase to system engineering efforts to ALQ-218 requirement and realignment of Integrated Capability Package-3 requirements for execution purposes. Schedule: Not applicable.
- Service Agency Name
- Navy
Entities
Organizations
- United States Navy
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