Aircraft Avionics

Aircraft Avionics is a part of the Army's Research, Development, Test & Evaluation budget activity. The specific goal of this program is to develop and integrate aircraft avionics systems into Army aircraft to support the Assured Positioning, Navigation, & Timing (APNT) Army Modernization Priority. This includes the development of Enhanced Aviation Global Air Traffic Management (GATM) Localizer Performance with Vertical Guidance (LPV) Embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) Inertial Navigation System (EGI) (EAGLE-M) to provide assured positioning, navigation, and timing capability in a GPS degraded environment. Additionally, the program aims to develop alternate position, navigation, and time (ALT-PNT) solutions to enable precise navigation and timing during Multidomain Operations (MDO) operations in the absence of GPS.

Program PE 0604201A also includes Project VU3: Networking And Mission Planning, which focuses on developing networking and mission planning systems required for horizontal and vertical integration into Army aircraft. This project supports research, development, and test efforts in the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phases of these systems. Specifically, it aims to support the future Common Digital Backbone for the enduring and future Army Aviation fleets with the ability for further growth to host flight critical capabilities. This includes the development of the Aviation Mission Common Server (AMCS), which is an obsolescence replacement and capability upgrade for the current Army Improved Data Modem (IDM) 401. The AMCS enables the hosting of applications to communicate, navigate, sense, and deploy weapon systems across the Joint Force in support of Army 2030 and future aviation operations.