PMA209 2012 Core Avionics Master Plan - NAVAIR - U.S. Navy

Core Avionics Master Plan 2012 Appendix A-2I. Line of Sight (LOS) Information Exchange.Mandates and Milestones:Multifunctional Information Distribution System – Joint Tactical Radio System(MIDS-JTRS) Initial Operational Capability (IOC). (2010) MIDS-JTRS (or MIDS-J) is aform-fit-function replacement for the MIDS Low Volume Terminal (LVT), which providesenhanced through-put Link 16 for tactical aircraft. It was deployed on Super-Hornet in2011. It provides Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN), Link 16 digital tactical data anddigital voice (J-Voice), and programmable encryption to comply with the NationalSecurity Agency’s (NSA) crypto modernization mandate. It is Software CommunicationsArchitecture (SCA) compliant (i.e. capable of running JTRS software waveforms) andhas additional transceiver slots to accommodate to future upgrades of JTRS waveformsincluding the TTNT waveform.ARC-210 Generation 5 RT-1939(C) IOC. (2012) The Gen 5 ARC-210 was approved forintegration on new production aircraft in 2011 and will be operationally deployed in2012. The Receiver Transmitter (RT) employs a Software Defined Radio (SDR)architecture with an increased frequency range (30-941 MHz) and red-side Ethernetdata port. It includes the capabilities resident in earlier ARC-210 versions. Futuresoftware upgrades will add UHF SATCOM Integrated Waveform (IW), the updated linklayer protocol for Combat Net Radio (CNR), the Second-generation Anti-jam TacticalUHF Radio for NATO (SATURN) waveform, the Enhanced SINCGARS (Single ChannelGround/Airborne Radio System) Improvement Program (ESIP) waveform, theBandwidth Efficient Advanced Modulation (BEAM) LOS waveform, and hooks to supportJoint Precision and Landing Approach (JPALS) and Mobile Users Object System(MUOS) functionality.Digitally aided Close Air Support (DaCAS) baseline implementation (2014). In Dec2009 the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) approved the Joint FiresExecutive Steering Groups objective to digitally interconnect Joint Terminal AttackController (JTAC) and Joint Fires Observer (JFO) systems with CAS platforms. TheJROC endorsed the Variable Messaging Format (VMF) over CNR as the near term LOSCAS standard protocol, and directed the Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) DaCASChange Control Board to define a common implementation of the appropriate standards(Block 1) by the end of 2010. Block 1 defines a link layer protocol (MIL-STD 188-220Rev D Chg1), a message header standard (MIL-STD 47001D), and the VMF messagestandard (MIL-STD 6017B). CAS mission aircraft must configure for VMF Rev D Chg 1.Capability Element Evolution:A. Interior Communications. This element addresses wireless systems used forcrew members to communicate with each other within the platform.1. Current capabilities. Hardwired and Airframe-based Wireless Intercomm.Naval aircraft primarily use Intercomm Systems (ICS) that require aircrew to beplugged in via a hard cord to an embedded hard-wired system outlet at each operatingstation. This design restricts crew mobility and presents an entanglement hazard duringemergency egress. The current Naval standard for wireless intercom, Airborne WirelessICS (AWICS), is being incorporated into the C-2, H-46, H-53, H-60, UH-1Y and MV-22.A-2 Information Exchange 3