REQUIREMENTS FOR AIR FORCE WEAPON SYSTEM MAINTAINABILITY

1963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward R. Fallon
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Weapon System

Companion Trainer Aircraft: Concept Definition and Evaluation

1982 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 610-614
Author(s):  
Robert T. Nullmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Transfer Of Training ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Flight Training ◽  
Weapon System ◽  
Electronic Warfare ◽  
Concept Definition ◽  
Business Jet ◽  
Air Force Base ◽  
B 52

Faced with increasing budget constraints and a need to conserve the B-52 weapon system, the Strategic Air Command has pursued several avenues to make continuation training programs more efficient. Because actual flight training is considered to be critical, one proposed solution involved the use of a low cost business jet to supplement reduced B-52 flying schedules. This jet would be augmented to provide training for the radar navigator, navigator, and electronic warfare officer in addition to the pilot and copilot. Some training missions would be flown in this Companion Trainer Aircraft (CTA) to reduce the need to fly the B-52. This paper describes two efforts concerning training effectiveness of a possible CTA. First, a theoretical approach based on transfer of training considerations was used to predict the training potential of the CTA. Second, because the transfer expectations for the pilot and copilot were particularly difficult to specify, a study was designed involving operational SAC crews. This study employed a modified T-39B to supplement B-52 training for eight aircrews from the 2nd Bombardment Wing, Barksdale Air Force Base, LA. Although the CTA program was cancelled and the test was terminated early, crew responses to the program and problems encountered provide valuable lessons for any future CTA program.

User Innovation and System Management

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-135
Author(s):  
Jon R. Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Weapon System ◽  
Defense Contractors ◽  
Air Defense ◽  
Weapon Systems ◽  
Data Files ◽  
Operations Center

This chapter investigates the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC), the analogue to the Fighter Command Ops Room in the modern U.S. Air Force. The air force formally designates the CAOC as a weapon system, even as it is basically just a large office space with hundreds of computer workstations, conference rooms, and display screens. The CAOC is an informational weapon system that coordinates all of the other weapon systems that actually conduct air defense, strategic attack, close air support, air mobility and logistics, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). One might be tempted to describe the CAOC as “a center of calculation,” but modern digital technology tends to decenter information practice. Representations of all the relevant entities and events in a modern air campaign reside in digital data files rather than a central plotting table. The relevant information is fragmented across collection platforms, classified networks, and software systems that are managed by different services and agencies. Thus, in each of the four major U.S. air campaigns from 1991 to 2003, CAOC personnel struggled with information friction. They rarely used the mission planning systems that were produced by defense contractors as planned, and they improvised to address emerging warfighting requirements.

Durability and Damage Tolerance Assessment of the TF34-100 Engine

1986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon S. Ogg ◽  
Ronald R. Reinhold
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Damage Tolerance ◽  
Flight Safety ◽  
Weapon System ◽  
General Electric ◽  
Structural Assessment ◽  
Structural Durability ◽  
Inspection Systems ◽  
Useful Life ◽  
Maintenance Plan

The critical nature of the TF34-100 engine to the Air Force’s A-10 Close Air Support weapon system made it important to obtain the best possible visibility of the engine’s future structural maintenance needs and component life limits. Accordingly, an in-depth structural durability and damage tolerance assessment was performed on this engine by a joint Air Force/General Electric team. Results of the assessment team’s unprecedented analysis efforts culminated in a comprehensive Structural Maintenance Plan that identified both current and future maintenance actions necessary for insuring maximum flight safety. The plan entailed component inspection and replacement intervals, inspection systems, preferred modifications/reworks, and a life growth plan for extending the useful life of the TF34-100 upwards to 8000 A-10 mission hours. This paper details the nature and extent of effort undertaken in conducting the 18 month structural assessment.

Aircraft Engine Integration for the M88-RAFALE Couple

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Ramette ◽  
Jean Christophe Corde
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Mechanical Behaviour ◽  
Aircraft Engine ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Weapon System ◽  
High Complexity ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Air Intake

As all other comparable programs, the couple RAFALE-M88 has to be a fully optimized multirole weapon system with the highest level of integration; a key factor for that purpose is the very good prebuilt integration of the engine within the aircraft. After a short description of the main historical milestones of the aircraft and engine programs development and integration, the paper will first summarize the rigourous procedures which are used by aircraft and engine manufacturers, official services and future Air Force and Navy users. Then, the paper will detail the main points where aircraft engine integration as to be lead precisely and carefully; these points are: -at first, the electronical links which are establised between the aircraft and the engine, due to the high complexity of flight softwares who have to work and talk with each others; -secondly, the aerodynamical subjects, including air intake and exhaust nozzle installation; -thirdly, the mechanical integration (geometry, mechanical behaviour, …); -then all kinds of fluid circuits or equiments.

Mpt in the Air Force

1986 ◽  
Vol 30 (13) ◽  
pp. 1294-1295
Author(s):  
John Speigel ◽  
Mike Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Weapon System ◽  
Integration System ◽  
Weapon Systems ◽  
System Acquisition ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Training ◽  
Equal Consideration

The Air Force recognizes the importance of Manpower, Personnel, and Training (MPT) issues in weapon system acquisition. To give supportability of future weapon systems equal consideration to cost, schedule, and performance of the system, the Air Force has set out to build an integration system to monitor MPT issues.

Manpower, Personnel, Training and Safety in Air Force Weapon Systems Acquisition

1988 ◽  
Vol 32 (18) ◽  
pp. 1251-1255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth W. Potempa ◽  
Frank C. Gentner
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
Weapon System ◽  
Personnel Training ◽  
Data Bases ◽  
Weapon Systems ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
System Acquisition ◽  
Early Phases ◽  
Made In

Manpower, personnel, training and safety (MPTS) analysis is currently inconsistent and incomplete in its application to Air Force acquisitions. While many problems are managerial, MPTS analysis also suffers from a lack of adequate tools and data bases to analyze weapon system design, project MPTS requirements and suggest trade-offs. These problems are particularly acute in the early phases of the weapon system acquisition process (WSAP), making it difficult to influence design during this critical period. To improve MPTS analysis, a study is being conducted by the Air Force to define a comprehensive and integrated MPTS analytic system for use in the WSAP. The study is identifying what MPTS decisions need to be made in the WSAP, when they need to be made, and how they are interrelated. Current capabilities are then being determined by analyzing the tools and data bases available to support each MPTS decision. The analysis will identify needed improvements to existing tools and data bases and whether new ones need to be developed. This paper discusses the requirement for an improved MPTS system and then describes a variety of managerial and technical initiatives being undertaken to satisfy the requirement. The last section identifies the desired characteristics of an effective MPTS system.

scholarly journals Future Tactical Fighter Requirements: A Propulsion Technology Update

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. W. Lind ◽  
T. S. Ervolina
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Propulsion System ◽  
Weapon System ◽  
Critical Design ◽  
System Requirements ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Design Challenges ◽  
Technology Concepts

This paper examines the potential roles that are emerging from current studies of future U.S. Air Force tactical fighters and analyzes their impact on the propulsion system requirements. It provides an updated review of the leading propulsion technology concepts that are the candidates in meeting such critical design challenges as supersonic cruise, stealth, STOL, as well as high maneuvering capability with a cost-efficient weapon system.

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