This report is the second of two audit reports addressing the Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System. The system consists of a helmet-mounted display unit and aircraft interface components that will enhance aircraft fighter pilots ability to engage and destroy airborne targets. The Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System is one element of a larger system-of-systems high-off-boresight capability that will provide a first look, first shot advantage to the U.S. warfighter. The capability allows the pilots to engage, lock, and launch weapons at a target wherever the pilot is looking, beyond the radar s field of view, but within the constraints of the missile limits. The capability works with the Navy and Air Force AIM-9X missile. The AIM-9X missile is currently in development with an estimated completion date of May 2003. If the missile is not deployed at the same time as the helmet, there will still be added capability because the helmet visor displays data such as airspeed, altitude, target range, weapons, sensors, and navigation. The Air Force plans to employ the Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System as upgrades on the F-15 C/D and F-16 C/D blocks 40 and 50 aircraft, and insert the helmet into the production line for the F-22. The Navy plans to incorporate the helmet in the F/A-18 E/F production line and as a planned upgrade to the F/A-18 C/D model. The Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System is a joint Air Force and Navy acquisition category III program under the milestone decision authority of the Air Force Program Executive Officer for Fighters and Bombers. The helmet is in the engineering, manufacturing, and development phase of the acquisition cycle and is scheduled for a Milestone III full-rate production decision in April 2002. As of December 31, 2000, the estimated total research, development, test, and evaluation and production costs were approximately $672 millions.
Funding and Logistics for the Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System
2001
29 pages
Report
No indication
English
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