Test And Evaluation Support Budget Authority
Abstract
The Bomber Armament Tester will ensure that our USAF bomber fleet can conduct nuclear deterrence, global power projection and global strike operations to support the President of the United States and Combatant Commanders by providing a reliable, cyber secure, and sustainable tester. The tasks are to develop a common bomber armament tester and the Test Program Sets (Software, Hardware, and Documentation) to test the armament release equipment on the bombers. RDT&E efforts support development, testing, and producibility of the Bomber Armament Tester and Test Program Sets. The program will utilize an incremental development approach with B-2 as Increment 1, B-1 as Increment 2, and B-52 as Increment 3. Increment 1 is funded and will consists of up to 5 test articles. Increment 2 and Increment 3 are currently unfunded in the FYDP. The Common Aircraft Portable Reprogramming Equipment (CAPRE) is a secure common memory loader verifier that loads operational flight programs to the weapon systems. . CAPRE leads the fleet on Cyber initiatives and is government owned and developed. CAPRE supports 32 USAF weapon systems including but not limited to A-10, B-1, B-52, C-5, C-17, C-130, CV-22, F-15, F-16, H-60 and KC-46. RDT&E effort includes developing a Network Interface Module (NIM) that provides additional cyber hardening to the CAPRE system and redesigning the current CAPRE system to adapt to the NIM. RDT&E effort also includes software development for NIM interfaces and new weapons systems moving to the CAPRE system from other MLV systems. The goal is to provide one common cyber secure MLV for the Air Force that minimizes cyber vulnerabilities in weapon systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- 6506TE_0701212F_5_3600_PB_2018
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