DMS-M was to include a digital electronic support measures (ESM) subsystem, new ESM antennas, and modern display processing units to improve threat radar detection, identification, and avoidance capabilities.ĭMS-M was expected to cost about $2.8 billion, and, as a result of delays in the program, the Air Force restructured it to include just the cockpit upgrade in the service’s fiscal 2021 budget request after spending about $1.9 billion on DMS-M. Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor for BDM, while Collins Aerospace is the subcontractor designing the displays.īDM is a successor to the B-2 Defensive Management System Modernization (DMS-M) program, an effort begun with $250 million in fiscal 2013. The program’s cost estimate is under review, and therefore the program cost has not yet been finalized.” “Our request for proposal released on time in August 2020, and the program is structured to meet the Air Force Global Strike Command fielding dates by 2026. Cory Brown, the B-2 system program manager, wrote Defense Daily in an email. The BDM program “is progressing as planned,” Air Force Col. 31 for B-2 Display Modernization (BDM) to help pilots plan missions.
The service said it released a request for proposals on Aug. The Air Force bought 21 of the bombers but lost one in February 2008 after it crashed on the runway at Andersen AFB, Guam shortly after take-off. Air Force looks to increase their mission readiness.
The Engineering Manufacturing and Development (EMD) phase for a cockpit display upgrade of the 20 Northrop Grumman B-2 stealth bombers is to begin this fiscal year, as the U.S.
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