Full Phase II Proposal

Recent improvements in efficiency and performance of payloads in Air Expendable Countermeasure Decoys have not necessarily benefitedperformance gain for the AN/ALE-47 Countermeasure Dispensing System. The Air Force has the RR-180 Dual Chaff payload, which has proveneffective. The Navy RR-129, however, has not been updated to dual-chaff configuration. Quad-M's approach is to divide the Navy’s chaff casinginto two compartments and independently deploy each chaff payload. The technology developing the RR-180 was leveraged to develop theAir Expendable Countermeasure Decoy Device. Quad-M bread-boarded the proposed electronic circuit and demonstrated its validity in theproposal. The quad impulse cartridge is capable of utilizing a single firing circuit and providing two (2) separate payload initiations sequentiallyat two (2) different firing times. No hardware or software changes in the AN/ALE-47 CMDS are required. The Air Expendable CountermeasureDecoy Device maintains the same form factor as the RR-129 cartridge. No cost impact will occur other than a minimum cost impact on theexpendable countermeasure due to the fact that a second squib is used. This technology will increase the number of expendablecountermeasures dispense events without modifying the existing airframe structure and will increase the aircraft survivability from RF missile