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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) Secure Memory Loader Verifier (SMLV) 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. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver X-XX weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 0605826F, 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605830F, 0605831F, 0605832F, and 0605898F." This program element also includes program administrative cost for the Automatic Test Systems program office and funds the cost of studies and research to support the Automatic Test Systems fleet. FY 19 funding will be used to continue the development and testing of the Bomber Armament Tester (BAT) and FY 18 funds starts the development hardware and software for the Common Aircraft Portable Reprogrammable Equipment Secure Memory Loader Verifier (CAPRE SMLV)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- 6506TE_0701212F_5_3600_PB_2019
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