Integrated Surveillance System

Abstract

The FY20 funding request was reduced by $3.000 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. Project 0766 provides for Integrated Undersea Surveillance Systems (IUSS) Research and Development Projects under the Maritime Surveillance Systems (MSS) Program Office (PEO SUB PMS 485). IUSS provides the Navy with its primary means of submarine detection, both nuclear and diesel. A portion of project 0766 Fixed Surveillance System (FSS) is classified, with details available at a higher classification level. The IUSS Research and Development project (0766) funds Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) Passive and SURTASS Low Frequency Active (LFA) developments. SURTASS provides the mobile, tactical arm of the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System, providing long range detection and cueing for tactical weapons platforms or other vessels of interest. SURTASS LFA provides an active adjunct capability for IUSS passive and tactical sensors to assist in countering the quieter diesel and nuclear threats of the 1990s and beyond. The LFA tasks are directed at detection of slow quiet threats in harsh littoral waters. Development and improvement continues on the common IUSS processor based on NAVSEA's Acoustic Rapid Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) Insertion (ARCI) program with a cyclical tech refresh of hardware and software in conjunction with the submarine Advanced Processor Build (APB) process. The IUSS Integrated Common Processor (ICP) has the capability to process and display data from all fixed and mobile underwater systems. The IUSS ICP is used for all new system installations and replaces the legacy systems as they reach end of life and require upgrading. Additionally, SURTASS consolidated on the TB-29A Twin-line array, a variant of the Submarine TB-29A Long line array. This reduced the number of array variants employed by SURTASS from 3 to 1, and enabled development and logistics cost savings by leveraging off the submarine TB-29A program. The Navy's Theater Anti-Submarine Warfare (TASW) Offset Strategy responds to an urgent EUROCOM/AFRICOM requirement for additional maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities. PEO SUB, in conjunction with COMSUBFOR and CNO, directed a rapid prototyping program be undertaken utilizing systems developed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC). Development of TASW capabilities to meet TASW requirements against evolving threats in the EUROCOM/AFRICOM Area of Responsibility (AOR) will also serve to address similar requirements globally. In FY16, funds were reprogrammed to complete the first prototype contracting and deployment in support of the Navy's TASW Offset Strategy. In FY17, the IUSS Research and Development project (0766) funded the second major prototype contracting, refurbishment and deployment to support the Navy's TASW Offset Strategy. In FY18, the IUSS Research and Development project (0766) Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funded the third major prototype contracting, refurbishment and deployment to support the Navy's TASW Offset Strategy. Reprogrammed dollars funded non-recurring engineering updates focused on increasing Transformational Reliable Acoustic Path System (TRAPS) reliability. In FY19, Congressional budget additions funded the fourth major prototype contracting, refurbishment, and deployment. This is a Military Intelligence Program (MIP). Project 0344 funds the Deployable System of Systems project which complements FSS and SURTASS by providing flexibility to TASW commanders worldwide by allowing the Fleet to address operational gaps in wide area undersea surveillance by using a deep water deployable system. Project 1768 T-ARC(X) is a candidate replacement program for U.S. Navy's only organic undersea cable laying and repair ship, USNS ZEUS (T-ARC 7), which is approaching the end of her extended service life. The ship's main mission is to deploy, repair, and retrieve undersea cables and equipment, with a secondary mission of conducting acoustic, hydrographic and bathymetric surveys.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2020
Source ID
0204311N_7_1319_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
Program Adjustments: FY20 increase of $28.763M: The FY20 funding request was reduced by $3.000 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. Other program adjustments included: $20.0M increase (Project 1768) to PE 0204311N to begin initial research and design for a follow-on Cable ship to replace the aging USNS Zeus; $11.9M increase (Project 0766.S41)for design and development of Underwater Segment advanced sensor technology and associated processing, and design to support alternative technologies. FY19 Increase of $35.000M: $35.0M Congressional Add (Project 9999) for additional Transformational Reliable Acoustic Path System (TRAPS) units. FY18 increase of $16.192M: $11.6M (Project 0766.L24) for OCO requirements and $4.592M (Project 0766.L24) reprogramming for TRAPS.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

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Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antisubmarine Warfare
  • Beam Forming
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Cost Analysis
  • Deep Water
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Navy
  • Product Development
  • Signal Processing
  • Software Prototyping
  • Submarine Warfare
  • Surveillance
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Undersea Surveillance
  • Undersea Warfare

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies

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