Boeing to install Honeywell avionics computers aboard Air Force F-15 combat jets in $7.5 million order
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio – Military avionics experts at the Boeing Co. are will integrate the Advanced Display Core Processor (ADCP) II into the avionics of the U.S. Air Force F-15 combat jet under terms of a $7.5 million order announced last month.
Officials of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, are asking the Boeing Defense, Space & Security segment in St. Louis to handle full-rate ADCP II production to install these computers onto F-15 aircraft.
Boeing is the prime systems integrator for all versions of the F-15 Eagle combat jet. The ADCP II flight computer comes from the Honeywell Inc. Aerospace segment in Phoenix.
The computer is based on commercial technology and provides multi-core processing capabilities. Its high-speed processing and interface designs enable advanced systems integration, increased mission effectiveness, augmented fault-tolerance, enhanced system stability, and aircrew survivability, Air Force officials say.
The ADCP II is pivotal to F-15 jet fighter upgrades to enable the 1970s-vintage aircraft to help maintain U.S. air superiority for the F-15's anticipated life cycle through 2040.
The computer provides mission processing for new advanced capabilities such as Eagle Passive/Active Warning Survivability System (EPAWSS), long-range infrared search and track capability (IRST), high-speed radar communications, and future software suite upgrades.
On this order Boeing will do the work in St. Louis; several other continental U.S. operating locations; and Lakenheath, England, and should be finished by July 2025. For more information contact Boeing Defense, Space & Security online at www.boeing.com/company/about-bds, Honeywell Aerospace at https://aerospace.honeywell.com, or the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at www.aflcmc.af.mil.
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