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

Core Avionics Master Plan 2012 Appendix A-2Beyond Line-of-Sight Information Exchange.Mandates and Milestones:*Note: Until recently, the Joint Tactical Radio System – Airborne and Maritime Fixed(JTRS-AMF) terminal was planned for potential integration into larger aircraft to enablesoftware managed waveforms utilization. Full rate production had been planned for2014. The JTRS-AMF program was cancelled by USD AT&L by and AcquisitionDecision Memorandum in May 2012.Integrated Broadcast Service (IBS)/Common interactive Broadcast (CIB). (2015)Cut-over to a new waveform will occur in 2015. No legacy broadcast support is currentlyanticipated beyond that date. Platform RTs must be modified to receive the new signal.Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) Fully Operational Capability (FOC). (2015)Five MUOS Satellite Communications (SATCOM) satellites in orbit will establish FOC.Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Shutdown. (2017) U.S.Army will no longer maintain the satellite and command station network infrastructurethat supports FBCB2 after 2017. Platforms wanting to stay plugged into the Joint BFSAnetwork will need to be equipped to manage the next generation JBC-P utility.Capability Element Evolution:A. Narrowband SATCOM / Intel Broadcast.1. Current capabilities. Voice/Digital (UHF Narrow Band / DAMA / IW).The majority of Naval Aviation platforms utilize narrow band UHF SATCOM forBLOS voice. The current UHF Follow On (UFO) satellite system allocates specificlimited channels for particular services, such as Fleet Secure Voice Common, FleetSatellite High Command Network (SHCN), Tactical Information Broadcast System(TIBS), or Fleet Flash Net (FFN). Demand Assigned Multiple Access (DAMA) waveformis used to manage military UHF SATCOM usage. The ARC210 is typically used forvoice and limited data exchange. The Multi-mission Advanced Tactical Terminal (MATT)is used by platforms requiring access to threat broadcast services. The current UFOSATCOM satellite constellation is vastly over-subscribed and has outlasted its plannedservice life. By 2015, UFO is expected to have only 40% of its current access capacity.Integrated Waveform (IW) was designed as an upgrade to DAMA to increasethrough-put capacity by using more efficient and tighter time partitioning. IW affords amarked improvement in voice quality, a nearly threefold increase in available accesses,improved link margin, and faster, more efficient, more user-friendly terminal operation.Phase I only provides pre-planned pre-assigned services as described in MIL-STD-188-181C and MIL-STD-188-183B. It employs spot beams to enable services on UHFSATCOM networks to run higher performance applications that require more bandwidth.IW is backwards compatible with DAMA. Users of IW can communicate with DAMAusers by creating wider IW timeslots that match DAMA timeslots. EUCOM andAFRICOM are requiring in-chopping forces to be IW capable.A-2 Information Exchange 11