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USMC AV-8B Radar/Night Attack Weapons System Trainer, Device 2F150C

Large 2F150C Picture Customer: NAVAIR
End User: US Marine Corps
Award Date: January 2002
Delivery Date: July 2003
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This effort consisted of the delivery of the AV-8B+ Radar/Night Attack Weapons System Trainer (RNAWST) Device 2F150C to MCAS Yuma, Arizona, along with associated documentation, spares, and support. The upgraded Device 2F150C is made up of several major components.

The Trainee Station comprises an AV-8B+ cockpit replica (to provide the same environment as in the aircraft), a Control Loading Subsystem (to reproduce control forces in the primary flight controls), and a G-Cueing Subsystem (to provide acceleration and buffeting cues to the trainee). The Trainee Station is enclosed in a mini-dome out-the-window display system. The Instructional System (IS), comprising one Instructor Operator Station (IOS), is the main element for controlling, monitoring, and evaluating the training session. The IOS includes a Mission Planning Mode to create the different exercises and scenarios to be practiced in the simulator, and a Portable Control Unit that allows a simplified operation of the simulator from the Trainee Station instead of using the IOS.

The Aural Generation & Communications System generates the aircraft sounds, tones, voice warnings, ATIS, and GCA messages and allows communication between the Trainee and Instructor Operator. The Data Processing System consists of a Digital Computer Subsystem (DCS) that performs simulation computations and general synchronization of the simulation processes, and a Real-Time Input/Output Subsystem that interfaces the DCS with the Trainee Station.

The Visual System includes the Image Generator, the Display System, and Visual Databases. The Image Generator is based on powerful unmodified COTS items (hardware and runtime software). The Display System is a COTS mini-dome (M2DART) that provides a large field of view (360º horizontal, +90º / -45º vertical) with 6.5 arc-min/OLP resolution. The visual system incorporates the databases of the North American East and West coasts. Both databases encompass full geo-specific texture, with high-resolution insets providing resolutions up to 0.5 m/texel. The databases also include full sensor subsets for the FLIR and weapons sensors. Material classification allows 1:1 correlation between sensors and out-the-window displays. Simulation for the LITENING Pod is provided through accurate host computer models and an additional Image Generator channel. The simulation incorporates specific runtime software and a clone of the visual system databases. A Digital Radar Land Mass Simulator is used in the simulation of the air-to-ground modes of the APG-65 radar installed aboard the AV-8B+.

Simulation software includes the necessary routines to model the AV-8B+ operation and its associated weapons, LITENING Pod, and the Tactical Environment.

An HLA interface is used to communicate state and interaction data between the RNAWST and other simulations that may be participating in a group exercise. The USMC Tactical Environment Network (TEN) is integrated into the trainer architecture, allowing an alternate solution for the trainer computer-generated forces and for interoperability.

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