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

Core Avionics Master Plan 2011 Appendix A-6PMA272 also collaborates with numerous other DoD and Service-specific entities,including the Joint Electronics Advanced Technology (JEAT), Naval Aviation Center forRotary Wing Advancement (NACRA), Joint Aircraft Survivability Program Office(JASPO), all Service laboratories (DARPA, NRL, AFRL and ARL), and other Service'sscience and technology development organizations such as Army Intelligence,Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) to achieve that goal.Requirements.Mission sensor and countermeasure avionics that provide Electronic Warfare (EW)self-protection capabilities are mission enablers in Joint Functional Concepts such asBattlespace Awareness, Force Application, and Force Protection. These joint conceptsflow into the naval capabilities of Sea Strike and Sea Shield outlined in Sea Power 21.Top-level EW requirements for Airborne Electronic Attack and Counter Air/Counter AirDefense are presented in an EW Initial Capabilities Documents (ICD). Specific EWcapability requirements are currently documented in the Integrated Defensive ElectronicCountermeasures (IDECM) Operational Requirements Document (ORD). The NavyAnnex to the Large Aircraft Infra Red Counter Measures (LAIRCM) ORD is an effortadapted from the Air Force System Program Office (SPO). The NAE has documentedthe capability requirements in an Initial Capabilities Document (ICD) and a CapabilityDevelopment Document (CDD) for the Joint and Allied Threat Awareness System(JATAS). The program office has also partnered with the U. S. Army on the CommonInfra-Red Countermeasure (CIRCM). A Capabilities Production Document (CPD) hasbeen approved for the IDECM Block IV Upgrade Digital Radio Frequency Memory(DRFM) Jammer.Mandates and Milestones:DoN LAIRCM Initial Operational Capability (IOC). [2010]AAR-47B(V)2 IOC for HH. [2010]ALE-55 Milestone III (MSIII) / IOC. [2011]JATAS Milestone B (MS-B). [2012]JATAS IOC. [2015]ALQ-214 Block III IOC. [2016]CIRCM IOC (U.S. Army). [2017]Capability Element Evolution:A. Dispensed Countermeasures.1. Current Capabilities.The AN/ALE-39 Counter Measure Dispenser System (CMDS) is a legacy systemcapable of dispensing chaff, flare and/or other expendables. This aging system is beingreplaced with the AN/ALE-47 system.A-6 Self Protection 3