Strategic Sub & Wpns Sys Supt

Abstract

A. MISSION DESCRIPTION AND BUDGET ITEM JUSTIFICATION: The TRIDENT operational systems development program results in improvements to the baseline TRIDENT Combat System. Current TRIDENT Combat Systems were first developed in the early 1970s and are becoming increasingly difficult to maintain and offer comparatively less performance than more recently designed systems. Previous efforts to upgrade portions of the TRIDENT Combat System include improvements via sonar and combat control hardware and software (e.g., QE2 programs), feasibility of increased countermeasure capability and a concept evaluation of an Submarine Fleet Mission Program Library (SFMPL) interface. Due to the sensitivity of TRIDENT programs it is assessed that international technology will not have a major impact or be a recipient of the benefits derived from this effort. Development strategies will significantly enhance the sustainability and operability of the sonar, communications and Combat Control Systems on TRIDENTs by evaluating both Obsolete Equipment Replacement (OER) possibilities and potential improvements. The TRIDENT Submarine System Improvement Program develops and integrates command and control improvements needed to maintain TRIDENT Submarine operational capability through the life cycle of this vital strategic asset. The program conducts efforts needed to maintain strategic connectivity, ensure platform invulnerability, and reduce lifecycle costs through Obsolete Equipment Replacement (OER) and commonality. The Advanced Technologies for Arming, Fuzing, and Firing (AF&F)/Joint Warhead Fuze Sustainment program supports efforts to develop, proof, and demonstrate advanced technologies that will be leveraged and incorporated into future AF&Fs. The focus is on technologies that have multi-service (Navy and Air Force) and Multi-Nation (US and UK) applicability. $10M of 2009 funding was appropriated as a Congressional add to support advance technologies for the Mk5 Arming, Fuzing, and Firing (AF&F). The Joint Warhead Fuze Sustainment Program will commence in FY2010 as a development and studies program which integrates modern technologies into the Arming, Fuzing, and Firing (AF&F) development and modernization to improve reliability, safety and security, and develop common fuze components adaptable to current and future warheads. A study will be conducted to determine what surety, safety, and ambiguity issues may exist if SSBNs were outloaded with both conventional and nuclear payloads. The Technology Applications Program supports the TRIDENT II (D5) Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) that provides the U.S. a weapon system with greater accuracy and payload capability as compared to the TRIDENT I (C4) system. TRIDENT II enhances U.S. strategic deterrence providing a survivable sea-based system capable of engaging the full spectrum of potential targets with fewer submarines. This Program Element supports investigations into new technologies which would help mitigate the program impact due to component obsolescence and a rapidly decreasing manufacturing support base. These efforts include Reentry System Applications and Guidance System Applications. The Integrated Nuclear Weapons Security System (INWSS) efforts support the Nuclear Weapons Security program and SSBN Escort mission. The policies and requirements regarding the safeguard of nuclear weapons within the Department of Defense is established by DoD S5210.41M. Within the Department of the Navy, nuclear weapons are limited to TRIDENT Fleet Ballistic Missiles (FBM), either deployed aboard TRIDENT submarines or located landside at Naval Submarine Base, Kings Bay, or Naval Submarine Base, Bangor where missiles are first assembled as well as repaired. The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) has assigned the Strategic Systems Programs, the FBM program manager, with mission responsibility for the safeguard of FBM nuclear technologies. This budget supports efforts directed at improving the current technological baseline through a series of studies focusing on land and waterside requirements, including both surface and underwater. Collectively, these efforts will improve countermeasure technologies addressing detection, delay and denial. INWSS efforts include the development of the the Palletized Protection System (PPS), a self contained, autonomous, readily transportable, limited area defense anti-missile system designed to protect high value critical assets from threat missiles by either disrupting their guidance and control systems, or physically intercepting and destroying them in flight. PPS development efforts funded in FY2007 and FY2008 were delayed due to technical and developmental issues. An above threshold reprogramming action was processed to fund additional FY2009 efforts required to complete test and evaluation efforts. Subsequent to the reprogramming, the PPS contract was terminated and all PPS development efforts have been cancelled. A portion of the FY09 funidng is required to address contract termination costs. The Underwater Launch Missile System (ULMS) effort develops capabilities definitions and assessments, science & technology development strategies, and conceptual work to prepare for R&D and future prototyping. The Advanced LINAC Facility Program seeks to develop and complete the design for an advanced Linear Accelerator Facility to perform radiation simulation of transient dose rate events. This facility will perform with advanced capabilities to overcome limitations of existing facilities, allowing for greater efficiency in testing and reducing costs. The Adelos National Security Sensor System effort develops an advanced fiber optic sensor system for counterterrorism and antiterrorism operations to meet rigorous performance metrics necessary for nuclear facility, material, and weapons protection. The Adelos component will evaluate the use of advanced classification algorithms for reduction of false positive detections of objects in proximity to fiber optic sensing elements. Adelos program also seeks to expand the application of a unique fiber optic sensor system designed to provide covert surveillance and intelligence gathering of potential threats to our nation's nuclear activity. The Enhanced Special Weapons/Nuclear Weapons Security effort supports the development of the Adelos fiber optic sensor system for the advanced detection, tracking, and classification of potential threat targets by employing advanced digital acoustic watermarking algorithms within a secure network for steganographic techniques to convey the classification and location information within the digital audio signal produced by the Adelos application software. The Covert Robust Location Aware Wireless Network (CROWN) program develops a key foundation technology enabler to provide communication between multiple assets for a covert network capability that could be used on the submarine as a wireless network, and as a method to improve relative terminal accuracy that cannot be met today, especially in jammed or spoofed battlefields. The CROWN program provides the military precision relative location determination, tracking in a jammed environment, and high data rate communications with a low probability of being detected or intercepted by adversaries. The Maritime Security- Surface and Sub-Surface Surveillance effort supports the development of the Quad-S Seaport Security System. The Quad-S Program develops a tactical surveillance and reconnaissance system in support of real-time monitoring of the complete spectrum of the maritime domain underwater, surface, air, associated landside environments and individuals within those environments. This funding will also develop a needed year-round test bed, to evaluate and test emerging maritime technologies against the operational capabilities needed by the U.S. Navy.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
• Source ID: 0101221N_7_1319_PB_2011
• Change Summary Explanation: Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable. FY11 from previous President's Budget is shown as zero because no FY11-15 data was presented in President's Budget 2010.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Counter WMD
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Sensors
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Force
• Control Systems
• Department Of Defense
• Detection
• Engineering
• Fleet Ballistic Missiles
• Heat Shields
• Instrumentation
• Linear Accelerators
• Maritime Security
• Nuclear Weapons
• Nuclear Weapons Security
• Strategic Weapons
• Submarines
• Test And Evaluation
• Warfare

Readers

• Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control