F-15 EPAWSS

Mission — EPAWSS DEVELOPMENT source

The legacy F-15 Tactical Electronic Warfare System (TEWS) is functionally obsolete. It uses 1970's analog technology to combat 1980s-era radar-based ground and air threats. In addition, this aging system is becoming more difficult and expensive to sustain. As a result, the Air Force is replacing TEWS with the F-15 Eagle Passive/Active Warning and Survivability System (EPAWSS). F-15 EPAWSS is an advanced digital electronic warfare system capable of detecting, identifying, locating, denying, degrading, disrupting, and defeating modern and emerging threat systems in contested airspace with dense radio-frequency (RF) background environments. F-15 EPAWSS will provide indication, type, and position of ground-based RF threats as well as the indication, type, and bearing of airborne threats with the situational awareness needed to avoid, engage, or negate the threat. It will also prevent RF threat systems from detecting or acquiring accurate targeting information to complicate and/or negate an enemy threat targeting solution. Finally, EPAWSS will counter RF and infrared threat systems at end-game via electronic countermeasures (jamming), chaff, and/or flares. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. This program is in Budget Activity 5, System Development and Demonstration (SDD) because it has passed Milestone B approval and is conducting engineering and manufacturing development tasks aimed at meeting validated requirements prior to full rate production.

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