The US Air Force’s Electronic Systems Center has awarded BAE Systems a US$43m contract to develop the next-generation mission-planning framework for US military aircraft operations.

The Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS) is a cooperative software development effort between the air force and navy to centralise mission planning between the services.

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BAE will improve the architecture of the current JMPS framework and transition disparate legacy mission-planning systems into a single framework and enable network-centric operations.

By Elizabeth Clifford-Marsh

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