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Monday, March 11, 2013

Navy to install FACE-based avionics computer upgrade in Marine Corps AV-8B attack jet fleet

AV-8B Harrier II |U.S. Navy officials are carrying out a plan to upgrade the mission systems computer (MSC) for the U.S. Marine Corps Boeing AV-8B Harrier II attack jet with industry-standard interfaces that meet guidelines of the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE).

Officials of the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., announced their intention last week to award a sole-source contract to MSC designer General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems in Minneapolis to provide the MSC with a FACE interface structure running on top of the system's existing Wind River Systems VxWorks 5.5-based core systems software.

Navy avionics experts are ordering the FACE software upgrades to the Harrier's mission computer to enable the AV-8B's avionics to implement the required area navigation (RNP) and required navigation performance (RNAV) application.

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