Draken Europe and Collins Aerospace have signed an agreement that will introduce Collins Aerospace's Joint Secure Air combat training System (JSAS) for use with Draken's Falcon 20 fleet in support of operational readiness training for the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.
The solution is comprised of aircraft-mounted JSAS pods plus a ground station, built in cooperation with Leonardo DRS, and offers advanced, high-capacity, low-latency, and multi-hop mesh networking using a software defined radio hosting multiple waveforms providing key enablers to achieve secure, LVC, multi-domain collective training.
With the first systems delivered to Draken Europe's headquarters, these pods based on CRIIS (Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System), already extensively used by the USAF and USN for training and analysis, will be cleared for flight on the Falcon 20 fleet, with first trials by the end of 2021.
As part of Draken's current operational readiness training contract with the MOD, JSAS pods will enable near-real-time combat training information to be viewed at the aircraft base and be ready for de-brief immediately after landing. This interoperability is made possible by the Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) architecture that ensures that classified data is protected while it is shared across platforms with the same security levels.
The system will be upgraded over time with a variant of the next-generation Tactical Combat Training System – Increment II (TCTS II) pods enabling fully encrypted interoperability with all coalition platforms across legacy P5 and future P6 Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation (ACMI) waveforms.
