MPS Increment 5

Abstract

MPS Inc 5 will complete the initial migration of select Air Force platforms from their legacy planning systems to Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS). It will complete development and begin Operational Testing (OT) of three efforts originally started as separate and individual projects within the MPS Modernization development effort. Those projects are: 1) Mobility Air Forces Automated Flight Planning Service (MAFPS); 2) Air Mobility Command (AMC) Transition; and 3) Special Mission Air Combat Command, Combat Search and Rescue (SMACC CSAR) These projects, and their associated platforms, comprise the overarching program known as MPS Inc 5. Specific capabilities include but are not limited to the following: A. Mobility Air Forces Automated Flight Planning Service (MAFPS): The MAFPS component to MPS Inc 5 provides modern flight planning service compliant with current and emerging airspace and air traffic control constraints. Central to the program is an improved route and fuel optimizer. MAFPS replaces the legacy Advanced Computer Flight Planning (ACFP) system. Warfighter benefits include: - Flight planning calculations for Tanker Airlift Control Center (TACC)-managed missions and AMC aircraft - Produce and graphically display optimum mission routes, fuel calculations, and aerial refueling activity - Calculate optimized fuel loads to include Cost Indexing - Graphical user interface and capability to dynamically re-compute flight plans B. AMC Transition: The AMC Transition to MPS component will migrate selected Airlift (C-17, C-5), Tanker (KC-135, KC-10) and Air Drop (C-17, C-130) platforms from their legacy Portable Flight Planning Systems (PFPS) mission planning systems which is sun setting at the end of FY2020. Additional warfighter benefits include: - Color moving map (Digimap) Common Component - Enhanced Air Refueling Common Component - Aircraft Flight Performance Module (FPM)/Take-Off and Landing Data (TOLD)/ Vehicle Install Package (VIP) Development - Communication, Navigation, Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) certified navigation avionics images C. Special Missions Air Combat Command (SMACC) Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR): This development effort will migrate the CSAR community (HH-60, HC/MC-130 aircraft) from PFPS to the MPS environment. Warfighter benefits include: - Ability to support a spectrum of missions ranging from simple day-to-day training and proficiency flying to peacetime operational/exercise sorties - Rapid mission planning - Mission data transfer to the aircraft via DTD - In flight situational awareness

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
• Source ID: 675385_0208006F_7_3600_PB_2019

Tags

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering
• Aerospace logistics and air mobility.

Technology Areas

• Space