Stores-Aircraft Interface
Abstract
655361: The Stores-Aircraft Interface project conducts stores-aircraft interface upgrades and standards development to include the Universal Armament Interface (UAI). UAI is the Air Force's standardized interface for aircraft weapons and mission planning, and its use is mandated by the Air Force acquisition process. The savings realized from this effort is on average 6 years of schedule and $22M per aircraft/weapon combination. This is accomplished by enabling integration of weapons independent of aircraft Operational Flight Programs (OFP) cycles. UAI is currently implemented on the F-15E, F-16 Block 40/50 and European Participating Air Forces (EPAF) F-16 aircraft, F/A-18, MQ-9, Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) I and II, Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM)(all variants), Laser JDAM, Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missile (JASSM), JASSM-Extended Range (JASSM-ER), Enhanced Paveway II, Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS), Combat Weapons Delivery Software (CWDS), and Precision Guided Munitions Planning Software (PGMPS). Planned implementations include Joint Strike Fighter (JSF/F-35), B-21, B-52, AC-130J, F-15EX, NGAD, CCA, Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile - Extended Range (AARGM-ER), Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW), Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), Grey Wolf, Select Precision Effects At Range Capability 3 (SPEAR3), Joint Strike Missile (JSM), Next-Generation Open Mission Services (NOMS) for mission planning. The UAI Program Office is responsible for development and enhancement of the UAI standard to maintain technical currency, support to coalition/allied/joint interoperability efforts for weapons-platform interface, provision of certification tools, and implementation support to aircraft and weapons. The Stores-Aircraft Interface funding also supports innovation activities to include studies, analyses, requirements definition, and quick-reaction capability prototypes/demonstrations to accelerate planning for technology transition, technology insertion and future acquisition programs. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program's funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605831F. In FY24 $0 was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY25 $0 is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 655361_0604602F_5_3600_PB_2025
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