Overview

The P8-A Poseidon is a multi-mission platform designed for the U.S. Navy's patrol and reconnaissance forces. This long-range, anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and anti-surface warfare (ASuW), intelligence surveillance (ELINT) aircraft was designed with a sophisticated suite of next generation sensing and communication assets, and a fully connected, state-of-the-art open architecture mission system. The P-8A design expands from Boeing's 737-800 and 737-900 platforms and incorporates the technical advances and military specifications essential to today's security standards.

For ASTi, the P-8A training system represented one of the most sophisticated and complex applications to date, including features such as high fidelity radio and communications system modeling, SATCOM, HF, Terrain, TDL, HLA, sonar, binaural communications, text-to-speech, record/replay, independent/combined mode training, diskless operation and security.

• Operational Flight Trainer (OFT) flight deck simulation including 2 crew positions, an instructor position and two observer positions
• Weapons Tactics Trainer (WTT) simulation including 6 Mission Crew Workstation (MCW) crew positions and 6 instructor/role players
• Full-fidelity, stereo audio distribution of sonar audio, and realistic simulation of configurable stereo communications, at all positions in the WTT
• OFT and WTT independent and coupled-mode support NASMP/HLA and Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE) support for networked operations
• Simulated full-fidelity radio effects, including propagation effects due to terrain, HF propagation, SATCOM coverage, and delay modeling
• Scenario-appropriate radio chatter simulation
• Instructor role player capability including voice disguised radio transmissions, text-to-speech (TTS) generated radio transmissions, etc.
• Full-up simulation of Mission Crew Workstation (MCW) crew communications assets, including mission audio panel (MAP) with simulated security interlock functionality, record/playback, etc.
• Navy IA requirements
• Environmental cue simulation for the WTT

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