The tests, conducted over several days, evaluated the ATCRB's ability to track air and surface contacts and to identify friendly and enemy aircraft using an advanced identification system. IFF is used not only for positive, secure, friend identification, but also to control aircraft.
Testing was conducted with Kfir and Hawker Hunter jet aircraft from the Airborne Tactical Advantage Company. Ship's crew tracked the aircraft, using Ford's Dual Band Radar (DBR).
As part of the SBDT, sailors in Ford's combat systems department conducted an up-load of simulated munitions for operators in the ship's Combat Direction Center (CDC) to simulate engaging the aircraft.
Gerald R. Ford is a first-in-class aircraft carrier and the first new aircraft carrier designed in more than 40 years. Ford is underway conducting carrier qualifications in the Atlantic Ocean.
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