EA-18 Squadrons

Abstract

The EA-18G has replaced the EA-6B aircraft as the primary Electronic Attack (EA) platform supporting the Navy and Marine Corps. 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. EA-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 2020 funding request continues improvements to the ALQ-218 Airborne Electronic Attack Systems Enhancements (ASE) and Integrated Capability Package (ICP)-3. 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. ASE provides foundational capabilities needed to support the ICP-3 passive kill chain. Additional funds added for transitioning Reactive Electronic Attack Measures (REAM) technology from an ONR future Naval capabilities (FNC) science and technology effort to the platform.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2020
Source ID
0604269N_5_1319_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
Technical: Not Applicable Schedule: Not Applicable The FY 2020 funding request was increased by $0.247 million as a result of a rate adjustment.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Engineering
  • Identification
  • Machine Learning
  • Product Development
  • Program Management
  • Signal Detection
  • Signal Processing
  • Software Development
  • Software Testing
  • Systems Engineering
  • Target Recognition
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics

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