Avionics Component Improvement Program(AVCIP)
Abstract
The Avionics Component Improvement Program (AvCIP) provides design, development, demonstration, test and evaluation, and integration support to resolve critical readiness and reliability deficiencies, obsolescence, loss of sustainability and top repair cost drivers of in-service Navy avionics systems. Funds are competitively allocated across multi-platform commodity and platform-specific projects with the objective of maintaining Avionics systems effectiveness at levels required to ensure mission success. AvCIP has been endorsed by the OSD Business Initiatives Council (BIC) as a cooperative tri-service program that adopts the better business practices and proven resourcing models of the Engine CIP. Resources are directed just prior to the execution year, allowing funds to address the most current fleet issues and accelerate solution fielding. Lack of out-year deliverable specificity is mitigated through definition of Avionics capability evolution in the Core Avionics Master Plan. Although Avionics association to digital technology brings challenges to keep pace with Moore's Law and stay ahead of obsolescence, it also affords significant opportunity to reap benefits of emerging advancements. Conversion of legacy systems from analog to digital components has consistently resulted in reliability gains that significantly reduce maintenance/repair activity/costs, save weight and space, and increase operational availability. Modern open system architecture technology insertion improves system upgradeability, by reducing integration time and cost. Avionics systems are the vehicles that enable platform connectivity and interoperability. AvCIP will help platforms integrate the modern technology that will allow them to keep pace with the rapid evolution of transformational network centric operations development. AvCIP also provides a vehicle to address unanticipated performance issues or critical changes in threat, tactics or operational demands revealed during deployment without disrupting program budget profiles designed for other purposes. AvCIP is designed to support manned and unmanned, common and unique, fixed and rotary wing aircraft electronic systems, including communications, navigation, surveillance, sensors, combat identification, civil interoperability, safety, mission data processing and display, and network connectivity equipment. Initiative selection is based upon analysis of operational priority, performance improvement, capability benefit, scope of applicability across fleet platform or weapon system inventory, technical risk, delivery time, cost and life cycle return on investment. In FY 2007, AVCIP transferred from Standards Development, PE 0604215N, Project Unit 0572.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 3170_0702239N_7_1319_PB_2011
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