Electronic Warfare (EW) Dev

Abstract

This program element includes development of Electronic Warfare (EW) systems for the United States Navy (USN), United States Marine Corps (USMC), and United States Army tactical aircraft, USMC helicopters, surface combatants, data link vulnerability assessments, precision targeting, USN and USMC radio frequency jammers, and development and testing of electronic warfare devices for emerging threats and emergency contingencies. This element also includes development of hardware/software solutions that link on-board integrated Aircraft Survivability Equipment (iASE) that are compatible with mission planning information and systems as well as studies and evaluations of current and future aircraft threats, modeling and simulation for improved countermeasure capabilities, and development and testing to address new and emerging threats. The projects in this element improve the ability of the Joint Force to strike diverse targets inside adversary air and missile defense networks to destroy mobile power-projection platforms and enhance close combat lethality in complex terrain. This program is funded under SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION because it includes those projects that have passed Milestone B approval and are conducting engineering and manufacturing development tasks aimed at meeting validated requirement prior to full-rate production decision. Project Unit 2175 Tactical Air Electronic Warfare Cost to Complete should read $4.331 Million. Total Cost should read $846.760 Million.

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Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2020
Source ID
0604270N_5_1319_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
Project Unit 3327: The FY 2020 funding request was reduced by $5.600 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. Cost: Project Unit 3309 / Assault Survivability Optimization: Increase from FY 2019 to FY 2020 is $6.1M to address existing, known survivability shortfalls in USMC platforms to defeat current and emerging advanced missile threats that if not addressed will result in loss of aircrew and aircraft. Technical: Project Unit 3309 / Assault Survivability Optimization: FY 2020 added effort to address shortfalls in test equipment to evaluate countermeasure effectiveness against advanced threats in multiple spectrums, including UV (ultra-violet), VIS (visible), and IR (infra-red). Schedule: Project Unit 0556 / EW COUNTER RESPONSE: N/A Project Unit 1742 / EW Technical Development and T&E: N/A Project Unit 2175 / Tactical Air Electronic Warfare: ALQ-214 SW Improvement Fleet Release was changed to a Fielding Decision 3rd Qtr. FY 2019 due to test range availability and software progression, this extend development and integrated testing. Additional Integrated Testing on the F/A-18 C/Daircraft will begin in 1st Qtr. FY 2020 extending into 2nd Qtr. FY 2020. ALQ-214 ARC strategy was further defined to include two phases and accelerate fielding a capability. Phase 1 ARC development addresses the requirements to mitigate potential risks associated with the software development program. The Phase 2 ARC contract award will follow the Requirements Definition phase and satisfy the ARC Development and Aircraft Integration requirement. Dual Band Decoy (DBD) Acquisition Strategy was approved to provide for Early Operational Capability to address emerging threats. DBD prototyping replaced DBD development, with DBD EMD contract and production contract to follow the prototyping phase. DBD Production Milestones added for Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) and Full Rate Production (FRP) 1 in 2nd Qtr. FY 2022 and 2nd Qtr. FY 2023 respectively, supporting a DBD Initial Operational Capability in 4th Qtr. FY 2023. Project Unit 3308 / Technology Development: Milestones: Contract Awards: ARC Risk Reduction Contract award added to 3rd Qtr. FY 2018. FY 2018 Operational Flight Program delayed one year. FY 2019 Operational Flight Program changed from 2nd Qtr. FY 2019 to 4th Qtr. FY 2019. FY 2019 and FY 2020 Target Generator delayed one year. All Contract Awards delayed due to Reprioritization of fiscal and manpower resources to meet emergent fleet needs. Test and Evaluation: Suite Level ECM Testing added to 4th Qtr. FY 2018 through 1st Qtr. FY 2019 and 2nd Qtr. FY 2020 through 1st Qtr. FY 2021. Threat Simulation and Test Assets: Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) Target Generator Development, DRFM Target Generator Integration and Testing, IDECM Model Development, FY 2022 IDECM Model Lab Integration and FY 2023 IDECM Model Lab Integration delayed one year due to reprioritization of fiscal and manpower resources to meet emergent fleet needs. Project Unit 3309 / Assault Survivability Optimization: FY 2018 flight test changed from 2nd/3rd Qtr to 4th Qtr due to test range availability. FY18 Test Mission Data File (MDF) changed from 2nd Qtr to 3rd Qtr to align with flight test. Added Radio Frequency Countermeasure (Chaff) fight test for MH-60 2nd Qtr 2018. Initiated modeling and simulation and engineering and evaluation to determine applicability of 1x1x8 countermeasures on Navy aircraft platforms. Updated FY 2019 schedule to reflect ground to air flight test for F/A-18E/F using advanced 1X1X8 countermeasures. FY 2019 to FY 2020 increase of $6.1M prioritized by USMC to fill existing, known capability shortfalls to address critical gaps in survivability against current and emerging threat systems thereby endangering USMC platforms. FY 2020 includes advanced countermeasure dispense techniques optimization modeling and simulation, test MDF development, countermeasure dispense techniques optimization flight test and optimized operational MDF release for AH-1Z/UH-1Y and MV-22 to address survivability shortfalls against advanced missile threats. FY 2020 modeling and simulation funding supports the development of advanced countermeasure techniques prior to air to air flight test for F/A-18 and ground to air flight test for AH-1Z/UH-1Y and MV-22. Schedule includes efforts to improve test and measurement equipment and to develop advanced countermeasures to defeat infrared and radio frequency threats. Project Unit 3327 / MAGTF EW Aviation Development: AN/ALQ-231(V)1 BLK X TD Flight Release moved from 2nd Qtr FY 2020 to 1st Qtr FY 2021; AN/ALQ-231(V)1 BLK X Software Development completion moved from 2nd Qtr FY 2019 to 2nd Qtr FY 2020; Advanced Technology Software Development moved from 3rd Qtr FY 2020 to 2nd Qtr FY 2021; AN/ALQ-231(V)1 BLK X Developmental test completion moved from 1st Qtr FY 2019 to 1st Qtr FY 2021; AN/ALQ-231(V)1 BLK X OT&E completion moved from 4th Qtr FY 2019 to 2nd Qtr FY 2021. AN/ALQ-231(V)1 BLK X production awards all slid 1 year. Project Unit C327 / Intrepid Tiger II (V)3 UH-1Y Jettison Capability: Congressional Add in FY 2018. Project Unit 3371 / Spiral 2 request for proposal added from 1QTR FY20 to 2QTR FY20 to support transition of Spiral 2 to Program of Record
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Application Software
  • Command And Control
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Electronic Countermeasures
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Employment
  • Jamming
  • Radar
  • Radar Countermeasures
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

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Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics

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