Integrated Surveillance System

Abstract

The Deployable Surveillance Systems (DSS) project (0344), complementing the Fixed Surveillance System (FSS) and Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS), provides flexible and responsive wide area surveillance to the Theater Anti-Submarine Warfare (TASW) commanders worldwide. DSS will operate as adjunct systems to meet the established FSS and SURTASS missions and to meet additional missions as articulated in the OPNAV Top Level Requirements document and follow-on Course of Action Analysis (COAA) and as dictated by TASW commanders evolving and emergent operational requirements. DSS is comprised of the following systems: Deep Water Passive (DWP), Deep Water Active (DWA), and Mobile Passive Active System (MPAS). Informed by TASW Offset operations and the tailored requirements process, the DSS Middle Tier Acquisition (MTA) Rapid Fielding Program will focus initially on the DWP increment and associated spiral development updates. Spiral developments to meet the evolving submarine threat will leverage on-going Navy, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and small business research efforts including processing and sensor technology. Follow-on increments will be focused on DWA and MPAS. PMS 485 market research of DWP industry capabilities concludes that DWP Spiral 2.0 is not achievable within the programs current cost and schedule parameters. Based on analysis of this market research, PMS 485 has suspended DWP Spiral 2.0 efforts, but will continue to field Spiral 1.0 units and to develop incremental improvements for DWP Spiral 1.0. The FY 2022 funding supports the fabrication of four (4) DWP Spiral 1.1 LRIP units and deployment and sustainment of FY 2021 fabricated nodes. 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 2000s 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 FY 2021 will support system improvements to the base SURTASS-E RPED prototype capability based on operational feedback and Commander, Operational Test Force (COTF) Operational Test and Evaluation (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 European Command (EUROCOM)/Africa Command (AFRICOM) requirement for additional maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities. PEO SUB, in conjunction with Commander Submarine Forces (COMSUBFOR) and Chief of Naval Operations (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. The FY 2020 increase supports the MTA rapid fielding of the DWP Spiral 1.0 units. In FY 2020, Congressional budget additions funded the development, design, and then fabrication of six (6) DWP Spiral 1.0 LRIP units and two (2) Engineering Development Models (EDMs) of DWP Spiral 1.01 including integration of the separately acquired DSS processing subsystem and the DSS Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) subsystem into the DWP Spiral 1 LRIP baseline. This is a Military Intelligence Program (MIP).

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2022
Source ID
0204311N_7_1319_PB_2022
Change Summary Explanation
The FY 2022 funding request was reduced by $9.285 million. The FY 2022 funding request increased by $1.450 for program adjustments: reduction of $6.550 million to the Deployable Surveillance System (DSS) RDTEN (Project 0344); reduction of $5.000 million to the Integrated Common Processor (ICP), and reduction of $2.000 million to Low Frequency Active (LFA) and Compact Low Frequency Active (CLFA) efforts (BSO 24 Project 0766); and an increase of $15.000 million to fund the G400 System Non-recurring Engineering (BSO 41 Project 0766). The FY2022 funding request was decreased by $10.735 million for other miscellaneous adjustments.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antisubmarine Warfare
  • Beam Forming
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Product Development
  • Signal Processing
  • Small Business
  • Software Prototyping
  • Submarine Warfare
  • Surveillance
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Undersea Surveillance
  • Undersea Warfare
  • United States Africa Command
  • Warfare

Readers

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

Technology Areas

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

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