ST System Development
Abstract
Battlefield Air Operations (BAO) Kit is a program within the overarching Battlefield Airmen Modernization (BA-Mod) Program. BAO Kit will develop a Family of Systems (FoS) that provide a state-of-the-art Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) suite for AFSOC's Battlefield Airmen. BAO kit will enhance the three core capabilities of Line of Sight (LOS) targeting, Beyond Line of Sight (XLOS) targeting, and Battlefield Air Operations Human Machine Interface (BAO HMI) while reducing the risk of fratricide and substantially reducing the weight carried. This program will develop and enhance technologies for Battlefield Airmen Combat Controllers (CCT) to recognize, identify, range, nominate, and design targets during both day and night. BAO Kit will also significantly reduce the time required to find, fix, track, target and engage the enemy by providing highly accurate target grid coordinates in three dimensions, generating target imagery both pre and post strike, and transmitting target data to Command and Control centers. All BAO Kit systems are light, compact and portable for use by dismounted Battlefield Airmen. Five sub-component projects (Human I/O, Machine to Machine Software, Power Generation and Management, Communication and Small Wearable Computers) were managed separately prior to the HMI CDD being approved in May 2007. These five components now make up the HMI program. The significant improvement in operational capability, coupled with dramatic weight reduction, will provide increased mission effectiveness across the conflict spectrum. Program is in Budget Activity 7 because it provides for the development of technologies and capabilities in support of operational system development.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 675138_0408011F_7_3600_PB_2011
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