Boeing Demonstrates Joint JSF and F-15 Training Simulation
SEATTLE, June 21, 2000 -- Boeing has successfully demonstrated the ability to link its Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) full-mission simulator with U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command simulators off-site in order to conduct real-time cooperative training missions.
In a two-hour exercise monitored by JSF government officials, Boeing recently linked its JSF full-mission simulator in St. Louis with four high-fidelity, networked F-15 operational training devices at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.
The training scenarios, with JSF and F-15 pilots flying together in the same threat environment, demonstrated how aircrews at different locations, with different types of aircraft, can practice JSF-representative missions together via a government-standard high-level architecture, or HLA, data network. HLA is a protocol that ensures simulation devices can talk and share data over the network.
"The demonstration shows that we're already successfully using our full-mission simulation to support JSF training requirements," said Dixie Mays, JSF training manager. "By demonstrating this capability so early, we've shown not only that Boeing knows how to do this, but also that it will be a low-risk activity during the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the program."
The networked F-15C mission training devices, developed and produced by Boeing under the F-15C Contractor Training Simulation Service program, are part of the Air Force initiative to create a joint synthetic battlespace through its Distributed Mission Training (DMT) program. The devices at Eglin are regularly networked with an identical setup at Langley Air Force Base, Va.
"Linking the JSF and F-15 devices supports the DMT vision of a joint battlespace where multiple assets must be able to train and then work together to complete a mission," Mays said. "With the Boeing HLA network and distributed mission training architecture, combat pilots will be able to participate in realistic training scenarios without having to leave their home base.
"This type of simulated joint training mission with an operational distributed mission training site has never been done before and is a great example of how today's warfighters and instructors use state-of-the art tools to develop the next-generation training environment," Mays added. "The interdisciplinary teamwork and coordination among modeling simulation, operational analysis and training disciplines were keys to the simulation's success."
The simulations also are a good example of the Boeing "design anywhere, build anywhere" philosophy. Boeing utilized the JSF full-mission simulator developed in Seattle, flight simulation facilities in St. Louis, and the Boeing-operated Mission Training Center at Eglin Air Force Base.
The JSF and F-15 capabilities were integrated using Boeing commercial-off-the-shelf technical solutions. Modifications to the F-15 DMT hardware and software configuration were unnecessary.
Boeing is the industry leader in DMT and high-level architecture technologies. In addition to the F-15C, the company brings to bear its DMT experience on the F-16, C-5, KC-10 and C-17 training programs.
Additionally, the company is utilizing the best of commercial industry training practices and lessons learned from its commercial airline training programs.
Boeing, the world's largest producer of fighter aircraft, is competing to build the JSF under a four-year U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps concept demonstration phase contract, while also defining the design for the operational JSF. A winner will be selected in 2001.
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