John Gruetzmacher, Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter “Interoperable by Design” National Defense Industrial Association System Engineering Conference San Diego, CA 22 October 2003 John Gruetzmacher, Lockheed Martin
JSF Program Focus Low Flyaway Cost Affordability Low Flyaway Cost Significantly Reduced Life Cycle Costs Lethality Adverse Weather Accurate Weapons Delivery Weapons Flexibility Survivability Signature Performance, SA, Countermeasures Supportability Service Basing Requirements LO Maintainability Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
JSF International Participation Norway The Netherlands Canada Denmark U.K. United States Turkey Italy Australia Lockheed Martin currently contracted to meet US and UK requirements and understand other partner country requirements
Common Aircraft Configurations F-35A F-35B F-35C CTOL (USAF) STOVL (USMC and UK) CV (USN)
JSF Warfighter Capabilities Cooperative Ops Full Off-Board Interoperability Fused, Coherent Common Operational Picture Intelligent Tactical Decision Aids Presented to the Pilot in an Advanced Cockpit Multi-Function AESA UHR SAR Autonomous Location and ID Precision Attack Versatile Weapons Capability Long Range IRST Passive Precision Emitter Location and Targeting All Around Situation Awareness Unprecedented Lethality and Survivability
The Autonomic Logistics Concept Reduced Footprint Smart, Reliable Aircraft Integrated Support Infrastructure Support Equipment Partnering with Government and Industry for Best Value Integrated Electronic Training of Pilots and Maintainers A Global Revolution In Fighter Sustainment
JSF Development Schedule CY 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 #1 #2 #3 STOVL IOC CTOL IOC CV IOC ASRR PDR CDR STOVL UK IOC CTOL CV First Flights System Development and Demonstration Flight Test OT&E LRIP 1 - 10 Aircraft (6 CTOL/4 STOVL) Contract Award LRIP 2 - 22 Aircraft (14 CTOL/8 STOVL) LRIP 3 - 54 Aircraft (20/20 Plus /9 CV/5 U.K.) LRIP 4 - 91 Aircraft (30/32/20/9) 14 Flight Test Aircraft 8 Test Articles (44/32/32/12) LRIP 5 - 120 Aircraft (72/36/48/12) LRIP 6 - 168 Aircraft
JSF Interoperability Transformation A cornerstone for improved US/UK/coalition interoperability and network centric operations Enables New Approaches To Strike Operations Common and interoperable avionics systems 3000 aircraft built to exact same IO standards 6000 including International Partners Unsurpassed strike fighter communications capability (IFDL, Link-16, VMF, SATCOM) Enabled By
Evolvable Airborne Architecture JRE (J or K Series Messages) Threat Broadcasts Outside World Combat Radio Networks Tactical Data Links (J Series Messages) JRE Mission Systems SATCOM SATCOM Link 16 VMF Programmable PHM Software CNI Suite Pilot Aids/Fusion Sensor Management Attack Aids Jeopardy Assessors Route Planners System Attributes • Open Architecture • COTS Implementation • Tech Refresh Pilot
Emerging External Interoperability Issues JSF Interoperability promise not fully realized if external OPFACs not upgraded to 2010 standards Requires cross DoD/MoD effort to achieve best interoperability outcome at JSF IOC and beyond JSF working to further identify OPFAC interoperability disconnects Link-16 capacity may be inadequate to support large number of JSF’s in the post 2010 operational environment Initial MITRE Corp assessment highlighted potential shortfall
Emerging External Interoperability Issues (cont) Emerging standards may not be available in time to meet JSF design “cut offs”. Examples are: Some Joint Tactical Radio System Waveforms Threat Broadcast Systems (IBS vs. TDDS/TIBS) Unambiguous/Timely Variable Message Format Standard
JSF - Designed For Interoperability JSF - A Key Node in the System of Systems Flight Ops JSF01664 JSF - Designed For Interoperability
Toward Greater Combat Effectiveness Improved Flight Characteristics Improved Planning, Tasking, & ISR Increased Reliability of On-Board Systems Counter Threat Systems Information Integration All Wx, Day/Night Improved Logistics Info Systems Improved R&M/PHM JIT Transport Mechanized/Stovepiped Manual Operations