Ultra Electronics is playing a key role in the UK DPA, ACCS (Air Command and Control Systems) IPT JFAC (Joint Force Air Component) IADM (Incremental Assessment, Demonstration and manufacture) Phase 2 programme.

The JFAC IADM 2 project is designed to provide a deployable Collaborative System for Air Battlespace Management (CSABM) to support RAF Air Operations within the UK and when deployed Out Of Area in National or Combined Operations by integrating existing austere Operational and Tactical deployable equipment into a system of systems.

The UK's need for an automated Air Command and Control capability was confirmed during the Gulf War and in operations over former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, where UK forces operated alongside their US allies who had computer based automated systems.

This is a five-year programme of parallel assessment and incremental development using Government/Commercial off the Shelf technology insertion.

Interoperability with allies is a key design objective of the CSABM capability and will be achieved through adherence to Joint Battlespace Digitisation concepts, by providing commonality through adoption of Common Operating Environments in the computer systems. The design aim is to exploit software from the larger NATO ACCS programme, which is due to become available from 2005/2006.

Ultra Electronics is an IADM 2 contractor team member along side Fujitsu, Insys and Lockheed Martin. Ultra Electronics is providing key systems engineering skills.

To achieve the project aims the Ultra project team have been particularly active in the following areas:

Creating Models for Deployed Air C2 Element (TACC)
Creating Models for TDL Operations
Defining Interoperability Requirements
Managing System Requirements