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

Core Avionics Master Plan2. Ensure issues with application across multiple platforms are coordinatedwith commodity program offices, OPNAV N881 and HQMC APW73. The commodityprogram offices (PMA209 Air Combat Electronics, PMA281 Mission Planning andPMA272 Advanced Tactical Aircraft Protection) will make themselves available to bedirectly involved in platform preparation of issues that are enabled by their coresystems. OPNAV N88 and DC/A POM serial guidance encourage platform managers topursue such exchanges when preparing issue sheet budget requests for the PRRs andCouncil of Colonels. OPNAV N881 and APW-73 Requirements and Action Officers aredirected to present rollups of commodity capability issues across the platforms. Thisenables the resource sponsors to understand the overall costs, efficiencies and benefitsof commodity enabled capabilities as they apply across the NAE. Coordination of corecapability issues with OPNAV N881 and APW73 allows individual platforms to leveragemomentum of collective Enterprise-level benefits and promotes interoperability.3. Leverage alternative avionics resourcing opportunities. A program officemay not have a program element or funding stream to address emerging avionicscomponent issues, particularly when they come in the post-production sustainmentphase. With the pace of technology rolls and obsolescence with digital systems, issuespop up that cannot be addressed in a timely fashion using the PPBE process.Component issues usually do not successfully compete for internal resources againstmajor platform-specific mission systems, weapons upgrades or airframe integritysustainment issues. Components that are centrally managed are more likely to haveactive resources for modernization/improvements as they evolve to support new users.Independent platform appeals for resources to modernize in order to increase reliability,reduce sustainment costs or avoid obsolescence supportability train wrecks may bemore challenged to achieve Returns on Investments (ROI) because the fixes will affecta smaller inventory or repair demand. Common systems have broader application ofmodernization or upgrade benefits. The following programs and processes offeralternative resourcing options.(a). Avionics Component Improvement Program (AvCIP). AvCIP providesNon-Recurring Engineering (NRE) funding to address component readiness degraders,top cost drivers and impending loss of sustainability due to obsolescence. AvCIP fundsare not intended to pay for designing a solution, but for taking a mature redesigninitiative through integration, testing and qualification. Replacement units can be fieldedas preferred spares or retrofit by attrition. Between December and April, the AvCIP IPTsolicits candidate projects for review. Applicants are requested to complete a templatethat evaluates current problems and identifies potential solution benefits. Projects areselected based upon criticality of the problem, programmatic and technical maturity ofthe proposed solution, ROI in terms of performance improvements and cost avoidances,and probability of successful initiative execution. Although PMA209 currently managesAvCIP for the NAE, both unique and common avionics components, as well asassociated test benches and electronics equipment, are eligible to receive funding.Projects are selected in May and funds are allocated at the beginning of the followingfiscal year (well within the PPBE cycle). Project progress and downstream actualbenefits are tracked against projections. Financial savings and cost avoidances can becalculated and tracked using the standard NAVAIRSYSCOM Business Case Analysistool available at http://www.navair.navy.mil/air40/air42/BCA/BCA.cfm.Core Section CAMP 2011 6