Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System
Abstract
This joint Air Force/Navy program (Air Force is the lead service) develops a helmet display system capable of depicting aircraft heading data, pilot's viewing perspective, target indication tracking/cueing, and other information on the aircrew visor to enhance pilot situational awareness. This display allows the pilot to quickly align platform sensors and weapons on targets, and engage threats using high off-boresight (HOBS) weapons such as the AIM-9X. Milestone III was approved in Jan 04, the first Full Rate Production (FRP) contract was awarded May 04, followed by FRP-2 in Jun 05. Continuing activities include, but are not limited to, deficiency resolution; improvements to tooling and test equipment; Electronic Unit obsolescence redesign; a systems engineering approach for implementing alternate displays; improvements to integrate night vision cueing display (NVCD); software updates; integration; improvements to Reliability and Maintainability (R&M); system upgrade studies/analysis; other obsolescence upgrades; improved magnetic mapping processes to reduce maintenance manhours and life cycle costs; and efforts to support the transition to Performance Based Logistics Partnership (PBL/P) and depot activation. This program is in budget activity 7 - Operational System Development - because it is a modification of existing aircraft.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 675226_0207170F_7_3600_PB_2011
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