Next Generation Electronic Warfare Human Machine Interface (HMI) for Submarines

Electronic Warfare (EW) systems Human Machine Interface (HMI) is used to classify and correlate electronic emissions. The HMI must maximize operator efficiency and support effective decision making and must create a workspace that reduces the operator?s manual interaction with the system. In order to capture the HMI requirements, SEA CORP will follow a structured process to study the AN/BLQ-10 operator workflow and capture the results in an HMI Concept of Operations (CONOPS). SEA CORP successfully employed this process, based on interaction with fleet personnel and subject matter experts, in defining new HMI concepts for the AN/BYG-1 Weapon Control System (WCS) Strike Displays. This effort will define a display framework, based on the CONOPS, which will decrease the number of menus, controls and windows, providing the operator more intuitive operations. The displays will be designed to support a touch screen user interface in accordance with the SWFTS HMI common style guide. SEA CORP will utilize the existing EW Server API/ toolkit to obtain the organic and non-organic datasets and create a display widget library that will support a highly extensible system. As a result, the HMI architecture design will facilitate easy integration and future growth of the EW HMI.