{"title":"A cost-effective approach for incorporating open-systems architectures within existing avionics platforms","authors":"M. Clark","doi":"10.1109/DASC.1996.559158","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"During an era of continually declining defense budgets, the defense establishment is being required to maintain or expand existing capabilities while expending fewer resources. In conjunction with this austerity dictate, our weapons platforms and their associated systems are being required to expand their capabilities in ways never envisioned during their initial designs. The B-52 bomber is a consummate example of this capabilities extension. As the lineage of this weapons platform now stretches into its fifth decade of service, the aircraft and its systems, upgraded many times over its life span, must maintain the capabilities of its critical mission with improved reliability and at reduced life-cycle costs, while providing the ability to add new functionality and adapt to ongoing technology improvements. The B-52's Avionics Computer Units (ACUs), the AP-1O1C Mission Computers, illustrate many of the problems of the aging military electronics being utilized to support today's requirements.","PeriodicalId":332554,"journal":{"name":"15th DASC. AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1996-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"15th DASC. AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC.1996.559158","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
During an era of continually declining defense budgets, the defense establishment is being required to maintain or expand existing capabilities while expending fewer resources. In conjunction with this austerity dictate, our weapons platforms and their associated systems are being required to expand their capabilities in ways never envisioned during their initial designs. The B-52 bomber is a consummate example of this capabilities extension. As the lineage of this weapons platform now stretches into its fifth decade of service, the aircraft and its systems, upgraded many times over its life span, must maintain the capabilities of its critical mission with improved reliability and at reduced life-cycle costs, while providing the ability to add new functionality and adapt to ongoing technology improvements. The B-52's Avionics Computer Units (ACUs), the AP-1O1C Mission Computers, illustrate many of the problems of the aging military electronics being utilized to support today's requirements.
在国防预算不断下降的时代,国防机构被要求在消耗更少资源的同时保持或扩大现有能力。与这种紧缩要求相结合,我们的武器平台及其相关系统被要求以最初设计时从未设想过的方式扩展其能力。B-52轰炸机是这种能力扩展的完美例子。随着该武器平台的发展,飞机及其系统在其生命周期内进行了多次升级,必须以更高的可靠性和更低的生命周期成本保持其关键任务的能力,同时提供增加新功能和适应持续技术改进的能力。B-52的航空电子计算机单元(acu), ap - 101c任务计算机,说明了用于支持当今需求的老化军事电子设备的许多问题。