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EWMS USER GROUP

equipment and user documentation and is involved with the review of the official F-16 Technical Order manuals related to the EWMS, such as Job Guides, General Vehicle Manuals, and Fault Isolation Manuals.

Engineering Assistance The

Engineering Assistance tasks include on-call support, technical correspondence, and support of the EWMS User Group meetings. An important part of this effort is the preparation of the Software Change Requests and Engineering Change Proposals, which define the candidates for the M-tapes. The Engineering Assistance also includes on-site support during test and integrations efforts with the EPAF, such as Early Operational Assessment, Development and Operational Test and Evaluation, and Lockheed Martin Avionics System Integration Lab testing, etc. Furthermore, Terma maintains an EPAF User Group web site, which is used to share and distribute information between the participants.

The EAGER Team - Expanding the Support

The European Participating Governments F-16 Air Foices, along with the Air National Guard/Air Force Reserve Command (ANG/AFRC) and the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center (WR-ALC), have also established a European Air National Guard EW Review team (EAGER team), which meets once per year in order to share EW experience and Solutions across fighter, transport, and helicopter platforms. Terma is a permanent member of this group due to the commonalityoftheALQ-213 EWMS across nations and platforms (F-16. A-10, C-130H/J, CH-47, AH-64, EH-101. among others) and industry is often invited to brief new developments of existing or new EW subsystems.

A Maturę and Proven Concept for OtherAircraft

The EWMS User Group has proven to be a uery effective tool to drive European Participating Govemments F-16 commonality, as well as a cost-effective solution to share the deve!opment and documentation efforts and costs invo!ved with the F-16 Mid-Life Updates. The User Group concept provides the users with a means to ensure a continued development of new capabilities for the EWMS and associated Systems (0- and l-level) throughout the life-cycle of the F-16 aircraft.

The User Group concept is a maturę and proven cost-cutter and risk reducer. It is a concept that could be applied across other aircraft types and among other blocs of nations.

TERMA UPDATE . FEBRUARY 2010