Mission Planning

Abstract

JMPS-Maritime (JMPS-M) is the designated automated mission planning system for naval aviation, supporting over 40 T/M/S of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft. JMPS-M 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, conduct mission rehearsal, and conduct post-mission analysis. JMPS-M 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 core JMPS-M capabilities are developed and prioritized in an evolutionary approach. An individual JMPS-M Mission Planning Environment (MPE) requires the JMPS framework, common components, unique planning components (UPCs), federated applications, and the necessary system hardware required to satisfy mission planning objectives. Most tactical naval aviation platforms are dependent solely on JMPS-M to plan precision guided munitions, sensor systems, tactical data links, secure voice communications, and basic Safety of Flight functions. Common helicopter functionality will be developed for implementation in Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS). Common Helicopter components include, Weight and Power Calculators (WPC), Common Mission Data Loader (CMDL), Weapon Employment Zone Overlays Tool (WEZOT) and Point Selection Tool (PST). The JMPS-M Increment 4 release transitions JMPS-M from Windows 7/32-bit Operating System (OS) (JMPS-M Increment 3) to Windows 10/64-bit OS. Transition to 64-bit allows for memory space expansion to accommodate future Microsoft Operating Systems, emerging technologies, and meet critical required cyber security mandates. Increment 4 development requires software conversion and refactoring to address memory limitations and system errors resulting in JMPS-M computer crashes. The transition from the current 32-bit architecture to a 64-bit architecture provides additional memory access, increased planning efficiencies, and creates an increased stability in the architecture resulting in fewer system crashes and improved cyber security. JMPS-M 64-bit transition efforts (Increment 4) also support platform capability enhancements that require increased amounts of data and processing power. Next Generation Naval Mission Planning will provide a new mission planning system which supports future multi-domain mission planning, execution, management, and mission analysis capabilities required by the 21st century warfighter. Next Generation Naval Mission Planning will modernize system architecture to address technological obsolescence, deliver collaboration and automation capabilities, and leverage service-oriented architecture to provide affordable revolutionary improvements in workflow, usability, cybersecurity, portability of mission planning, mission execution, and mission analysis functions. FY20 and out includes funding for Common Munitions BIT/Reprogramming Equipment (CMBRE) which provides the USN/USMC the critical capability to perform built-in-test and programming/reprogramming of various weapons. Funding will provide research and the development in order to develop upgrades to the CMBRE system to support advanced operational capabilities, address system obsolescence, meet cyber security requirements, and meet mission readiness requirements.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
• Source ID: 2213_0605215N_5_1319_PB_2019

Tags

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Space