(1) Chris Pocock, Upgrade for Singapore's F-16 Fleet Goes Ahead. Aviation International News (AIN), Dec 2, 2015
http://www.ainonline.com/aviatio ... 16-fleet-goes-ahead
("advanced IFF; joint helmet-mounted cueing systems (JHMCS); the joint mission planning system (JMPS); radios; secure communications including Link 16 terminals")
Note:
(a) identification friend or foe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_friend_or_foe
(IFF)
(b)
(i) Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS) is a kind of Mission Planning System (MPS).
Mission Planning System; Delivering a full range of integrated planning services. Boeing, undated
www.boeing.com/assets/pdf/defens ... MissionPlanning.pdf
There is no need to read it. Just view photos and know that when you search this PAGE with "Joint Mission Planning System," you can one (search) return.
(ii) Major contractors of MPS are
"• Northrop Grumman – Carson City, California
• Boeing – St. Louis, Missouri
• TYBRIN Corporation – Fort Walton Beach, Florida"
(iii) JMPS "is a Windows XP or Vista PC-based common solution" for "aircraft mission planning."
Windows Vista
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista
(an operating system; 2007- )
(iv) JMPS is now "for aircraft mission planning for all the Services." "All the services" -- that is what the word "Joint" means.
(v) The first version of JMPS was jointly developed in 1997 by Air Force and Navy.
(vi) "JMPS has allowed for reduction in flight planning time." US Air Force, "7/24/2013"
(c) Link 16
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_16
(2) cockpit Center Pedestal Display (CPD).
I can show you what it looks like, but I do not know its functions, particularly compared with cockpit equipment CPD replaces.
(a) F-16 Center Pedestal Display. Elbit Systems of America, undated (pdf)
www.elbitsystems-us.com/sites/de ... estal%20Display.pdf
(b) Elbit Systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbit_Systems
(Founded 1966; Headquarters Haifa, Israel)
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