Nav Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air Sys Eng

Abstract

The FY 2020 funding request was reduced by $2.000 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. 3159 Naval Integrated Fire Control (NIFC) Systems Engineering Integration and Test (SEI&T) project is a systems engineering effort to extend the Naval Integrated Air and Missile Defense battlespace out to the maximum kinematic range of our weapons for the air, surface, and strike warfare missions. This includes targets beyond the detection range of the shooter. The NIFC project exploits capabilities inherent in existing systems, optimizes current and emerging technologies in component system upgrades, integrates them together, and performs kill chain tests, forming an interoperable System of Systems (SoS) to maximize future defense capabilities. As directed by OPNAV, the project is focused on SEI&T efforts to integrate the From The Sea (FTS) family of kill chains which includes the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC), AEGIS, and SM-6 missile along with other networks and sensors The From the Air (FTA) family of kill chains consisting of surveillance platforms, tactical aircraft, data links, and air-launched weapons. This PE will support efforts including system definition and architecture development, performance prediction, performance assessment, system test and risk reduction efforts, system analysis, modeling and simulation, and capability demonstrations for the FTS and FTA families of kill chains. The project also facilitates the development of the concept of operations with the warfighter to maximize effectiveness when deployed with the Fleet. 3242 Naval Integrated Fire Control (NIFC) From the Air (FTA) Systems Engineering Integration and Test (SEI&T) project is a systems engineering effort to integrate NIFC FTA capabilities within "Pillar Programs" (F/A-18 & EA-18G, E-2D, F-35, Link-16 and Tactical Targeting Network Technology Data Links, and AIM-120 and AIM-9X weapons). Based on the advancing threat, there remains an imperative to improve lethality, survivability and interoperability by extending the battlespace out to the maximum kinematic range of our weapons for the air, surface, and strike warfare missions. The NIFC FTA project leverages capabilities inherent in existing systems, optimizes current and emerging technologies in platform system upgrades, and integrates them together to form interoperable System of Systems (SoS) to maximize offensive and defensive FTA integrated capabilities. As directed from OPNAV, the project is focused on development of Air Warfare, Surface Warfare, and Strike Warfare FTA effects chains. This PU will support efforts that include decomposing SoS requirements into Mission Technical Baselines (MTBs) and Integrated Capability Technical Baselines (ICTBs) for requirement allocation to Pillar Programs. Additionally, this PU will support NIFC pillar program coordination to provide performance predictions, performance assessments, and SoS risk reduction activities through Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) events, SoS exercises, and development of Requirements Test and Verification Matrices (RTVMs) to support Developmental and Operational Test for the individual platforms. In lieu of a traditional Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP), NIFC FTA test strategies will be developed to identify resources required to evaluate NIFC FTA capabilities, and describe how NIFC FTA capabilities will be evaluated prior to fleet delivery.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2020
Source ID
0604378N_5_1319_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
FY18 decrease due to SBIR reduction. FY20 decrease due to $2.000M availability of prior year balances and $0.059M Contractor Services Reform reduction.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Launched
  • Contracts
  • Cooperative Engagement Capability
  • Cost Analysis
  • Data Links
  • Emerging Technology
  • Engineering
  • Product Development
  • Strike Warfare
  • Surface Warfare
  • System Of Systems
  • Systems Engineering
  • Tactical Aircraft
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Systems

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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