The US Navy has issued a new request to obtain information to replace T-45, which will only be required to make a decline in the field of carrier (FCLP) for the wave.
On March 31, 2025, the US Navy issued another request to obtain information (RFI) for the program that will replace old age T-45 GoshawkUHTS training system. This should be the fifth RFI for the program, although the final request for proposals (RFP) was also expected in late 2024.
New RFI
the New RFI It now comes with updated dates, where the proposal request (RFP) is now expected by December 2025 with the expected contract prize in January 2027. The fourth RFI said to the date of granting the contract from the fiscal year 2026 to the Q2Fy2028, but the last RFI now shows that “UJTS on an accelerated schedule.”
However, it seems that the navy has finally reached a decisive decision, as in 2024, the service was still “carefully considering whether the UJTS air vehicle will need to make a decline in the field of carrier (FCLP) to landing.” In fact, the new RFI now states that “the AJTS air vehicle will only be required to conduct a transmission (FCLP) domain of the wave.”
As we previously informed, a good part of the FCLP training curriculum is concentrated, which allows new pilots to train on land bases for the full approach and maneuvering as it was implemented Aircraft carrierLess than the arrested landing. With the new requirements, future student pilots will only perform the approach from the current FCLP, as they arrived once they reach the minimum, without landing on the runway.
The navy says that this decision, which sets a completely different road compared to T-45 Goshawk In the past, T-2 Buckeye, “due to progress in lowering the operational platform and ground simulation.” This means that new naval pilots will rely more on automation and only fully FCLPS in flight simulation.
Also, this decision will allow faster development, such as New coach plane Air conditioning will not require complex and long structural adjustments with the new role. It is also possible that this is from two comprehensive goals that have now been set for the UJTS program: the speed to the initial operational capacity (IOC) and the quality of training.
Moreover, RFI states that “in an attempt to ensure speed to IOC, the government wants to maintain the schedule for the contractor’s development (contract prize for presenting a first test plane) not exceeding three (3) years in the period.” In fact, the service needs a rapid alternative to the T-45 fleet, because it faces problems, with The latest basis issued on March 112025, after the engine defect before take off, which caused the engine damage.
With the new RFI, the navy also requires industry inputs to finish the requirements of the GBTS. The service “thinks about the four -level GBTS product line, consisting of OFT coaches, unit training devices (UTD), CPT, and desktop flight coaches (DAT), but they are looking for industry inputs on a suitable mixture.”
It is also expected that GBTS will include integrated training “Live/Virtual/Ponstruption (LVC) integrated training that allows the actual entry of virtual threats in aircraft and simulation in one training event consisting of connected training devices.” Also, the navy is looking for inputs on the curricula, the decrease in manufacturing sources and the lack of materials (DMSMS), reliability and maintenance of maintenance, and excessive infrastructure.
2024 RFI
While the latest RFI focused on the ground -based training system, the previous Focus on the same plane. Many were already known from the previous repetitions of RFI, while others were updated to reflect the new requirements.
The desired feature of the cockpit is characterized by the common safety and environment properties of all modern aircraft, including Zero-zero expelling the seats And the umbrella that is resistant to hitting birds. The latter is completely clear as the navy lost some aircraft due to the problem of bird strike, and it is clear that it wants to reduce the chances of this again.
As for the formation of the cockpit, the service requires a HUD and one -touch screen plane in both the cockpit, as well as the HMD (HMD) shows with augmented integrated reality (AR) and is able to use it simultaneously or individually in the FWD and AFT. It was expected that you would expect the requirements for the large area of the area (LAD), as the navy already employed boys on the F-35C and F/A-18 Block III It will be transferred by the pilots graduated from UJTS.
Then RFI moves to suitability and performance features, starting with the ability to maintain the angle of the fixed attack (AOA) that targets 3.25 degrees while maintaining the field of vision during Non -scattered landing. This RFI said that the plane is expected to perform from 6 to 10 unequal landing for each training event, or 1400 landing annually on the assumption of 400 hours per year, and a total of 10,000 hours of the age of the plane’s structure and 35,000 landing.
For this reason, the structural design needed to calculate very large pressure during landing, and may need structural adjustments. Now that the new RFI stated that FCLPs will only be made for waving, without touching a drop, this requirement is likely to change.
As for the performance, the navy is looking for a plane capable of at least 0.9/450-500 KIAS, sustainable AOA, more than 20 degrees, a continuous loading factor of at least 6 grams, works on a roof of at least 41,000 feet and the rotation rate at least 12 degrees/s. RFI also mentions wings and/or column wings to transport stores, which are better identified in the elbow as tanks for external fuel, luggage and PMBR (trained on a multiple bombs rack) with six MK-76 Type of Bombs Practice.
The new UJTS plane is also required to integrate the new accurate landing mode (PLM), which is now on the F/A-18S and F-35S, and will eventually be the standard method of approaching the aircraft company for all marine aircraft. PLM does not reduce significantly The number of corrections required during the final approach To the aircraft carrier, but it can also reduce the demand for the structure of the plane, which reduces the need for structural adjustments.
RFI then lists all the characteristics required for tools and navigation, identify controls, offers, and records, which reflect the soft capabilities of the aircraft currently produced. Then the mission systems list is characterized by the delivery of air stores to the ground, the integrated artificial training, and the augmented reality training system. This appears to be the first time that weapons are mentioned in UJTS RFIS.
The menu continues with sensors and simulation systems, which include radar (although the previous RFI has achieved the possibility of actual radar), visual/infrared electrode (EO/IR), radar warning future (RWR), electronic support standards (ESM), electronic warfare (EW), and electronic attack (EA). The work also includes simulation of weapons, air weapons and air to the ground Automatic collision avoidance system (Auto G-LAS).