Aircraft Performance Requirements.pdf

AIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS ELECTRONIC ATTACK STAND

OFF JAMMING

The contracts shall provide for the following performance criteria (assume standard day conditions):

1.1 Electronic Attack (EA) Stand Off Jamming (SOJ) Services

1.1.1 Typical missions include:

i. EA Jamming

The Contractor shall operate its aircraft to provide EA Jamming. EA services are typically flown at medium/high altitudes, under direct control, with aircraft carrying AST/ALE pods and/or EA jammers. EA services must provide jamming support to the strike aircraft on the same bearing line to the training audience.

ii. Air Defense and EW presentations

The Contractor shall operate its aircraft to provide air defense and EW presentations. Air defense and EW presentations are typically flown at all altitudes, under direct control, with supporting aircraft carrying AST/ALE pods and/or EA jammers. EW presentations typically consist of a kill chain assessment pass, starting by simulating a medium altitude threat and escort jammer, then simulating a missile launch and low altitude fly out at targeted vessels. The Contractor shall provide the services by rotating through AST codes and exposing operators to EW jamming. The

Contractor shall provide air defense presentations which work below or above the radar horizon, with the aircraft simulating threats by interacting with the training audience using various stages of ROE including missile fly outs.

iii. Communication Intrusion

The Contractor shall operate its aircraft to provide communication intrusion. Communication intrusion is an inherent part of air defense and scenario training. The mission commander shall run voice or mechanical communication intrusion on blue training nets as directed while maintaining tactical situational awareness and monitoring safety nets for a cease-buzzer call.

The Contractor shall provide communication intrusion which includes vocal misinformation and meaconing of blue forces.

iv. Communications Relay Services

The Contractor shall operate its aircraft to provide communication relay services.

Communications relay services are used to enable shore based communications with the at-sea training audience. The aircraft typically flies an extended mission, medium altitude cap at max endurance. The Contractor shall perform airborne encrypted and unencrypted UHF communications relay to include voice and data utilizing Government provided mission equipment systems (e.g.Unmanned Aerial Communications Relay (UACR), PRC-158 dual channel radio). The Contractor shall have the ability to receive, handle, store and load Crypto

KEYMAT as required in accordance with the NSA CSS Policy Manual 3-16.

v. Own Force Monitoring (OFM) services

The Contractor shall operate its aircraft to provide OFM services. OFM missions shall be flown at any time, at all altitudes, under direct control, and may include an AST/ALE pod. The mission commander shall use all sensors to detect and locate blue forces as the training audience operates in various states of Emission Control (EMCON). The Contractor’s OFM aircraft must fly below the controller’s radar horizon as part of the profile to help isolate signals and geolocate the training audience.

1.2 EA SOJ Mission Profiles

The aircraft mission profiles below are representative of typical operations conducted in a training environment. The Contractor shall provide aircraft capable of meeting the mission criteria provided below and IAW aircraft requirements in PBWS and Interface Reference

Document (IRD). Specific training scenarios are subject to change based on the mission profiles at the request of the customer.

SOJ Profile Including Start, Taxi, Takeoff, then climb to cruising altitude of 20,000 ft. MSL and transit 150 NM at max range airspeed to push point. Continue level transit 200 NM at

300 KIAS. Orbit for 90 minutes at Max Conserve providing EA jamming support then Return to Base (RTB). Aircraft will RTB 350 NM at max range airspeed and normal descent for a total mission range of 700 NM plus loiter. For Drag Count calculations:

Aircraft in proposed mission configuration including an AST-9 pod on each wing.

1.3 Simultaneous Presentations

1.3.1 East Coast

The Contractor shall be capable of providing a minimum of one SOJ aircraft presentation on the

East Coast. The Contractor’s aircraft may be reconfigurable for any mission.

1.3.2 West Coast

The Contractor shall be capable of providing a minimum of one SOJ aircraft presentation on the

West Coast. The Contractor’s aircraft may be reconfigurable for any mission.

1.4 Aircraft Capability and Configuration Requirements

The Contractor aircraft performing SOJ missions shall meet the following configuration and performance requirements:

EA SOJ AIRCRAFT REQUIREMENTS

Table 1

Communications Suite FAA communication requirements IAW 14CFR

Two Ultra High Frequency (UHF) radios in the cockpit

One Very High Frequency (VHF) radio in the cockpit

One HF radio with the ability to control the radio from either the cockpit or the cabin

One additional HF radio controlled in the cabin with an integrated recording system to support communications jamming operations One additional UHF/VHF radio controlled from the cabin to support Special Mission Operator (SMO)

Cabin ICS Capability

Navigation Suite FAA navigation requirements IAW 14 CFR

FAA approved Global Positioning System (GPS)

Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) including Air-to-Air capability

Permanently mounted Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) II

Weather Radar One forward hemisphere scanning I-band Weather Radar that can also detect victim surface ships (approximately 1000 m^2 RCS at 25 nm in clear weather)

Range Over water operations 250 NM from nearest land, in mission configuration with two

AST-9

pods in mission configuration

Minimum Take-off to Landing Time: Five hours in slick (without EW pods) configuration from take-off to landing

Day Altitude 500 ft. up to and including 35,000 ft. MSL in mission configuration with two AST-9 pods

Night Altitude 1,000 ft. up to and including 35,000 ft. MSL with two AST-9 pods

Airspeed 300 KIAS in mission configuration with two AST-9 pods between 10,000 and 20,000

ft. MSL

Turn 2.0G sustained turn in in mission configuration with two AST-9 pods up to and including 14,000 ft. MSL

SOJ Mission Computer The Contractor shall provide a mission computer that supports ES Geolocation and internal network support for GFP EA receive/transmit antennas. Mission Computer must meet requirements of References (a) through (l). The Government will provide the mission computers for GME EA systems

EA Operations Aircraft shall be capable of simultaneously supporting four three different bands of EA

Jamming IAW the IRD:

a. 1 C/D-band, 1 E/F/G-band, and 1 I-band EA;

b. 1 B-band and 3 E/F/G-band;

c. 1 B-band, 1 C/D-band and 2 I-band)

d. 1 B-band, 1 C/D-band, and 2 E/F/G-band

Additionally, at least two hardpoints (one left wing/one right wing) that will each include four RF cabling support for GFP

Mission Power In the Stand Off Jammer configuration, sufficient 28V DC and 115V 3-phase AC electrical capacity (MIL-STD-704F compliant ) to safely and simultaneously power (1) required basic- aircraft systems, (2) government provided mission equipment. If the contractor provides additional mission equipment then the mission power configuration of that equipment must be included in the electrical capacity. Only the contractor knows what additional mission power will be required to support their mission equipment.

Cooling/Heating power Environmental Control System must operate IAW OEM specifications

Internal Safe Internally mount one GSA approved single-drawer security container (12.5” x 16” x 17”)

Large Area Tracking Range Shipboard and Rotary Wing Technology Upgrade

(LSRTU)

Provisioning to support a GFP internally mounted LATR System

Communications Jammer CFE Equivalent IAW the IRD

External Pod Mounts External pod mounts are Government provided mission equipment and must conform to MIL- STD 8591 1000 lb. store with 14” lug spacing.

Aircraft must be capable of a combination of any two of the following external pods simultaneously:

a. AN/ALQ-188,

b. AN/ALQ-167,

c. AN/ALE-43 shell compatible pod,

d. AN/AST-6,

e. AN/AST-9,

f. Tactical Combat Training System (TCTS),

g. REDNET -

h. P5CTS (Note: TCTS and P5CTS are mounted with GFP provided LAU-7 and or ADU-299 adapters)

i. ALQ-167/AST-9 shape pods– generic pods that are empty pod shells used to house receive and/or transmit antennas

ES Geolocation (Own

Force Monitoring)

Geolocating Spectrum Analyzer that meets the following:

1. At a 160 NM standoff, system shall be capable of detecting and providing a line of bearing to a signal between Radar bands 400 MHz and 18,000 MHz and

Communication bands 100 MHz and 3000 MHz, in a continuous field of view of no less than 270 degrees, for transmitters operating at 20W or greater transmitted power and given 5 seconds of signal persistence

2. System shall be capable of providing Pulse Repetition Interval (PRI) Pulse

Repetition Frequency (PRF) and frequency for detected radar signals in the C to J bands (500 MHz to 18,000 MHz)

3. System shall be capable of geo-locating detected signals in the C to J bands to within 5 NM from a 160 NM standoff, assuming 10 minutes of signal persistence.

4. System shall have a Radar Signal Receiver Sensitivity of – 70dBm at receive antenna input

5. System shall provide situational awareness software application that is capable of displaying and managing a wide variety of digital map images in its main window. It shall also have an extensive library of airport, navigational aids and air space boundary data which can be overlaid on the map display. It shall be capable of displaying and updating aircraft and target position information

Internal Racks Provisioning to internally mount two GME 19-inch standard industry electronic racks, up to 50 inches high, for the equipment with seating for at least one operator per rack, in addition to racks for CFE equipment. The layout configuration must meet

FAA Human Factors, Structural and aircraft Electrical Wiring requirements per FAA 8300.16 CHG 1

GPS

Data Collection Package The Contractor shall install a GFP GPS data collection package IAW the IRD