BAE SYSTEMS TO DEVELOP MISSION-PLANNING FRAMEWORK FOR U.S. FORCES
16 Jun 2008 | Ref. 187/2008
SAN DIEGO, California — BAE Systems has received a $43 million contract to develop the next-generation mission-planning framework for U.S. military aircraft operations. The Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS) is a cooperative software development effort between the Air Force and Navy to centralize mission planning between the services.
The Air Force’s Electronic Systems Center, based at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, selected BAE Systems following a seven-month down-select process to refine requirements and improve the architecture of the current JMPS framework. The award was given under the Air Force’s Mission Planning Enterprise Contract to transition disparate legacy mission-planning systems into a single framework and enable network-centric operations.
“The new, services-oriented, architecture-based JMPS framework will enable collaborative mission planning between services,” said Jim Rower, director of defense systems for BAE Systems in San Diego. “The program’s net-centric interoperability dramatically improves the ability of our defense forces to develop and share tactical mission plans, resulting in increased mission effectiveness.”
BAE Systems leads a team of industry and government experts from the Boeing Co., DCS Corp., ESRI, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Ogden Air Logistics Center and Sparta. Work will be performed in San Diego and Long Beach, California and will continue through 2010.
About BAE Systems
BAE Systems is the premier global defense and aerospace company delivering a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, information technology solutions and customer support services. With 97,500 employees worldwide, BAE Systems' sales exceeded £15.7 billion (US $31.4 billion) in 2007.
For further information, please contact:
Despina Froumis, BAE Systems
Tel: +1 858 675 2845 Mobile: +1 858 342 8709
despina.froumis@baesystems.com
Shannon Smith, BAE Systems
Tel: +1 703 907 8257 Mobile: +1 703 967 3854
shannon.n.smith@baesystems.com
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