Surface ASW Cmbt Sys Integr

Abstract

The 'Vision for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Superiority' provides a foundation on which to base the operational principles and force attributes needed to prevail against future adversary submarines. Fully aligned with 'A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower', it is intended to establish a consistent sense of urgency, and guide the development of a comprehensive long-term strategy and attendant execution plans to achieve and sustain a strategic and operational advantage, and maximize the potential for tactical advantage in future operationally-relevant environments. Our nation and maritime forces face an evolving submarine threat of increasing lethality. Evolving submarine technologies offer enhanced stealth, speed, endurance, weapons and operational proficiency, trends foretelling that the adversary submarine of the future will have a significantly larger sphere of influence, while presenting less vulnerability to ASW forces. Furthermore, the effective offensive engagement range of the adversary submarine of the future will continue to match or outrange individual U.S. and multinational platform sensors and weapons in many tactical environments. ASW forces must be effective in all operating environments, ranging from the deep open ocean to the shallow coastal waters and littorals. The noisy undersea environment, coupled with stealthier submarines, challenges the ability of our sensors to detect, localize, and track threat submarines. The objective of this Program Element (PE) is to significantly improve existing Surface Ship Undersea Warfare (USW) sonar system capabilities through quick and affordable development/integration of emergent, transformational technologies in support of Littoral ASW, Theater ASW, Mine Reconnaissance, and overall Sea Shield efforts required to pace the threat. Detection and classification play uniquely vital roles in the success of any ASW campaign. To be effective against increasingly stealthy threats in an often ambiguous undersea environment, future sensors must be environmentally adaptive, have very low false alarm rates, and exploit the full range of current and future submarine detection vulnerabilities. Project 1916's primary mission is to improve AN/SQQ-89(V) Measures Of Performance (MOP) by enhancing detection, tracking, classification, active, and sonobuoy data processing and display capabilities, and increasing acoustic sensor frequency bandwidth (Operational Requirements Document #667-76-05 titled 'AN/SQQ-89 Improvement Program' dated 31-Jan-05, Test and Evaluation Master Plan 801 and 802-2 (TEMP 801 & TEMP 802-2)). This project takes advantage of the AN/SQQ-89(V) Open System Architecture (OSA) and Acoustic Rapid Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Insertion (ARCI) initiatives to integrate a Multi-Function Towed Array (MFTA) with active sonar bistatics (Echo Tracker Classifier - ETC), an ARCI passive ASW processor, and torpedo defense capabilities (Forward and Aft sector coverage with Wake Homer protection). This COTS-based Surface Ship ASW combat system, the AN/SQQ-89A(V)15, is currently planned as a backfit program for both CG47 (CG59-73 Baseline 3 and 4) and DDG51 (All FLT I/II/IIA) class ships. The Open Architecture (OA) (level 3 compliant) of the AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 system drives the Advanced Capability Build (ACB) spiral development process and provides budget flexibility to make COTS/OA technology solutions and ARCI-type initiatives affordable. This will be accomplished via the incorporation of select Pre-Planned Product Improvements (P3I) and emergent, transformational ASW technologies delivered to the AN/SQQ-89(V) prime integrator every two years. ASW technology implementation will take advantage of improvements developed under the submarine Advanced Processing Build (APB) program and will in turn share unique improvements developed under this program with the submarine and surveillance ASW communities. Project 1916 also includes funding for the Surface Ship Enhanced Measurement Program (SSEMP), which will measure the performance of existing and new Surface Ship ASW combat systems and enables data based assessment of the capabilities and shortfalls in the performance of these systems in realistic scenarios. Project 1916 also includes funding, starting in FY 2009, for the Surface ASW Synthetic Training (SAST) program (under the Surface Ship ASW Synthetic Signatures Generation and Training Acceleration Initiative), including the development of a high fidelity acoustic simulation of a surface ship sonar. This effort will accelerate the implementation and integration of the Submarine Multi-Mission Team Trainer (SMMTT) Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE) solution/baseline to the surface ship paradigm. The training, skills, and proficiency of all personnel supporting ASW operations must be approached in a coordinated, concentrated, and properly-resourced manner to overcome past deficiencies. The full spectrum of training must be addressed, from synthetic to the experience gained from actual and exercise operations. Technology must be exploited fully to provide assistance to operators, tacticians, and commanders, in order to improve and maintain their capability against the evolving threat. FY 2009 Congressional Add - Project 9C61A included FY 2009 Congressional Add funding for 'Long Range Synthetic Aperture Sonar for ASW'. Funding will be used to initiate processor prototype system architecture, requirements modeling, and performance predictions for an ASW Synthetic Aperture Sonar system utilizing the current Navy sonar assets of an AN/SQS-53 hull mounted sonar and the MFTA.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
• Source ID: 0205620N_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

• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Sensors
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Active Sonar
• Cost Analysis
• Detection
• Detectors
• Echo Ranging
• Frequency
• Navy
• Open System Architecture
• Prototypes
• Sonar
• Spiral Development
• Synthetic Aperture Sonar
• Test And Evaluation
• Undersea Warfare
• Warfare
• Warning Systems

Readers

• Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies