Mission Planning

Abstract

Starting in FY17, Mission Planning (PU 2213) portion of the Tactical Command PE has been moved to Mission Planning PE (0605215N). The Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS) is the designated automated mission planning system for the Navy. JMPS enables weapon system employment by providing the information, automated tools, and decision aids needed to rapidly plan aircraft, weapon, or sensor missions, load mission data into aircraft and weapons, and conduct post-mission analysis. JMPS is a mission critical system which is a co-development effort between the United States Navy (USN) and United States Air Force (USAF). Common requirements are identified and capabilities are developed and prioritized in an evolutionary approach. An individual JMPS Mission Planning Environment (MPE) is a combination of the JMPS framework, common components, and the necessary system hardware required to satisfy mission planning objectives. Most Tactical Naval Aviation platforms are dependent solely on JMPS to plan precision guided munitions, sensor systems, tactical data links, secure voice communications, and basic Safety of Flight functions. Over 40 (T/M/S) naval aircraft are supported by JMPS. All T/M/S are required to transition to Microsoft Windows 7 due to End of Life (EOL) of Microsoft XP (April 2014) using Framework (FW) Version 1.3.5. Custom support for Windows XP is planned to allow remaining naval aircraft to be supported during the transition. Future JMPS platforms include; MQ-4C (Triton), P-8, and CH-53K. The re-architecture of JMPS will support net-centric goals by providing route "publish and subscribe" capabilities, transition to 64-bit allows for memory space expansion to accommodate future Microsoft Operating Systems, emerging technologies, and critical Cybersecurity updates. Funding profile includes JMPS baseline efforts for all existing T/M/S on Windows 7 32-bit framework while concurrently re-architecting to 64-bit framework. Increment 4 which encompasses 64-bit development requires complete software restructure to address memory limitations and system errors resulting in JMPS computer crashes. The transition from the current 32-bit architecture (4GB RAM) to a 64-bit architecture (196GB RAM) provides additional memory access, increased planning efficiencies; creating increased stability in the architecture resulting in fewer fleet memory crashes. Delaying JMPS 64-bit transition to the fleet will allow system crashes to continue.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2017
Source ID
2213_0604231N_5_1319_PB_2017

Tags

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Space

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