Countermeasures Dispenser System Future Airborne Capability Environment-compliant Interoperable Reusable Software

For Phase II, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to mature the Countermeasures Dispenser System (CMDS) Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) compliant Interoperable Reusable Software (CFIRS) to fulfill the Navy’s need to rehost AN/ALE-47 CMDS functionality in other aircraft survivability equipment. CFIRS is a standalone, portable, FACE-compliant, CMDS Operational Flight Program (OFP) that provides hardware abstraction, allowing it to be migrated from its original computing hardware to modern computing hardware (Intel i7, Xeon, ARM, or other processors) across various military platforms without significant redevelopment costs. The legacy OFP is tightly coupled to the current hardware and does not allow rehosting in new hardware without expensive modification to the original OFP. CFIRS addresses this problem through a FACE-based hardware-agnostic and Modular Open Systems Approach design by providing CMDS functionality as software that can be deployed on any hardware, thus saving the Navy sustainment costs. In Phase I, POC successfully met all the program objectives and conclusively demonstrated the feasibility of the CFIRS technology. As a result, Phase II development is now a straightforward process of engineering, optimization, and risk-reduction. In Phase II, we will develop technology readiness level (TRL)-6 FACE-compliant CMDS code and demonstrate its operation on POC or GFE hardware.