Tact Air Dir Infrared CM (TADIRCM)

Abstract

This element includes development of electronic warfare systems for worldwide deployment of United States Navy (USN) and United States Marine Corps (USMC) assault aircraft. This includes the development and testing of advanced infrared (IR) countermeasures systems for aircraft survivability against emerging threats and for emergency contingencies. This program develops Hostile Fire Indication (HFI), and Laser Warning Sensors that integrates IR missile countermeasures with aircraft Countermeasures Dispensing Systems (CMDS) and expendables. DAIRCM adopts future multi-band, networking capabilities to facilitate real-time transfer of threat information, off-board queuing, and control of onboard sensors. DAIRCM studies and evaluates current and future aircraft threats, makes modeling and simulation for improved countermeasure capabilities, develops, tests and provides test equipment to address new and emerging threats for improved aircraft survivability of assault aircraft in complex terrain and EW environments. JUSTIFICATION FOR BUDGET ACTIVITY: This program is funded under ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT AND PROTOTYPES because it includes all efforts necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative models or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2025
Source ID
0604272N_4_1319_PB_2025
Change Summary Explanation
The FY25 funding request increased by $0.346M for continued development and test of the DAIRCM system. Project Unit 3348: Acquisition Milestones: DAIRCM Final Capability Development Document (CDD) was updated from Q3FY22 to Q3FY23. Contract Milestones: The Engineering Design Model (EDM) Hardware Deliveries started Q4FY22 and will deliver through Q1FY24. Production Representative Model (PRM) award in Q2FY24 was added to the milestone listing. Delivery Milestones: PRM Deliveries was added to the milestone listing and will deliver 4QFY25 through 1QFY26. Test and Evaluation: FY25 COMOPTEVFOR (Naval Command Operational Test and Evaluation Force) entry was relabeled from COTF OA to OPTEV OA. FY27 Follow On Test & Evaluation (FOT&E) / Live Fire (LF) In Support Of (ISO) Product Improvements was added to the schedule. Project Unit 9999: Test and Evaluation: DAIRCM Development Flight Test was added to the schedule.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems

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