GTD has recently finalised a new step into the development and final certification of the Mission Management System (M-MMS) that is software-developing since 5 years ago for its customer Airbus Military. The M-MMS is part of the Avionics Equipment onboard the A400M Civil/Military aircraft. This equipment comprises two identical redundant Mission Management Computers (MMC) located in the avionics bay and acts as a gateway between the Military Domain and the rest of aircraft avionics system. The M-MMS provides control of the communications equipment (V/UHF, HF, DF, IFF, SATCOM, COMSEC, AMS) acting as the interface between them and the control/display functionality offered by the CDS and the RMP. This includes checking and ensuring the consistency of the crew input, management of settings, detection/resolution of conflicts, synchronization of all the RMP units and CDS DUs, informing the Flight Crew of a possible case of interference between two or more components (VUHF, HF, DF and VDR), processing and storing the changes in the Radio Communications Plan data and forwarding to the CDAU data to be recorded for mission restitution. The M-MMS also aids the Flight Crew to set the V/UHF, HF and IFF to certain settings at a certain position or time. It is continuously receiving the aircraft position and time and checking them against values contained in the autotuning plan (that has been loaded as mission data or inserted by the crew via the CDS). When a triggering condition is reached the system will request the crew to accept/reject/modify the plan via the CDS. It allows to limit (inhibit or reduce) transmitting power from all RF emitting systems from the aircraft and also acts as an interface between the CDS and the MIDS (Multifunctional Information Distribution System).
