Integrated Surveillance System

Abstract

The FY 2021 funding request was reduced by $2.230 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. Project 0344 funds the Deployable Surveillance Systems (DSS) 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. The FY21 increase supports the Middle Tier Acquisition (MTA) rapid fielding of the Deep Water Passive (DWP) Spiral 2 Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) units. Specifically, this increase will fund the development, design, and then fabrication of nine (9) DWP Spiral 2 LRIP units including integration of the separately acquired DSS processing subsystem and the DSS Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) subsystem into the DWP Spiral 2 LRIP baseline. 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. SURTASS-E provides a SURTASS passive capability packaged into ISO-Vans for mobilization on Vessels of Opportunity (VOOs). It was developed as a CNO Rapid Prototyping, Experimentation, and Demonstration (RPED) program beginning in FY17 to provide a SURTASS variant that addresses emergent Theater ASW Commander requirements for SURTASS capability. Funds added in FY21 will support system improvements to the base SURTASS-E RPED prototype capability based on operational feedback and COTF OT&E (via a Quick Reaction Assessment) findings, and to upgrade SURTASS-E RPED design to support military crew (MILCREW) manning. 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. 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, deployment and non-recurring engineering. This is a Military Intelligence Program (MIP).

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Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2021
Source ID
0204311N_7_1319_PB_2021
Change Summary Explanation
Program Adjustments: FY19 decrease of $3.633M: Reduction of $1.234M for SBIR/STTR/FTT Assessment; Project 0766.L24 was reduced by $1.400M to support the T-AGOS(X) Below Threshold Reprogramming to Project 3261 PE 0204313N and by $0.999M to support higher Navy priorities. FY20 increase of $15M: Congressional Add of $15M for program increase to the Transformational Reliable Acoustic Path Systems. FY21 increase of $2.221M: The FY 2021 funding request was reduced by $2.230 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances; Project 1768 was reduced by $6.000M to properly realign funds in support of the TARC(X) Cable Ship Replacement; Project 0766.L24 was increased by $6.200M to fund the SURTASS-E Program of Record (4 units); and Project 0344 was increased by $4.200M to conduct non-recurring engineering to improve TRAPS reliability.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

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

Readers

  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies

Technology Areas

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

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