ACFT Avionics
Abstract
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget request funds the development of Aircraft Avionics systems required to horizontally and vertically integrate the battlefield and the integration of those systems into Army aircraft. Tasks in this Program Element support research, development, and test efforts in the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phases of these systems. Alternate capabilities (non-GPS) and/or complimentary PNT solutions will be investigated, studied, evaluated and developed as standalone or blended navigation functions. The Enhanced Aviation Global Air Traffic Management (GATM) Localizer Performance with Vertical Guidance (LPV) Embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) Inertial Navigation System (EGI) (EAGLE-M) development program upgrades existing EGI hardware by incorporating M-Code to provide Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing (A-PNT) capability in a GPS degraded environment. The Alternate Position, Navigation, and Time (ALT-PNT) enables precise navigation and timing during Multidomain Operations (MDO) operations in the absence of GPS by leveraging ALT-NAV and Vision Based Navigation (VBN) efforts, and providing a secure and reliable fused PNT solution utilizing new and existing high grade sensors available on manned aviation aircraft. ALT-PNT utilizes Modular Open System Architecture (MOSA) standards allowing rapid and affordable platform integration, adopting of new technologies, and adjustment to changes in adversarial capability. Due to Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) obsolescence for currently fielded EGI Navigation Systems, reduction in EAGLE-M funding will result in a break in platform production lines and an inability to sustain the fielded fleet. Additionally, any reduction in funding would result delay fielding of critical A-PNT requirements resulting in inability to operate in a GPS degraded/denied environment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- C97_0604201A_5_2040_PB_2024
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