Surface ASW Cmbt Sys Integr

Abstract

The Navy's Strategy is to remain the preeminent maritime power, providing the U.S. a global expeditionary force committed to security and prosperity, while defending the Nation's interests. Within this vision, Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) remains a Navy core competency in a dynamic and uncertain maritime environment. U.S. adversaries continue to develop asymmetric capabilities and capacities to deter, disrupt, or delay the entry of U.S. and allied naval forces, and pose a constant challenge as we implement the Maritime Strategy. 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. 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. Submarines are an increasing threat to all Naval and Allied ships, particularly modern diesel subs and faster torpedoes. Not only can the presence of potential hostile submarines delay naval combatant action until they are located and neutralized, submarines can also disrupt all seaborne logistics supply for any ground campaign as well as maritime commerce. ASW forces must be effective in all operating environments, ranging from the deep open ocean to the littorals, and are key to countering adversarial anti-access and area denial strategies. 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 passive and active detection, tracking, classification and localization, and torpedo Detection, Classification, and Localization (DCL), sonobuoy data processing and display capabilities, and increasing acoustic sensor frequency bandwidth (Operational Requirements Document #667-76-05 titled 'AN/SQQ-89 Improvement Program', Test and Evaluation Master Plan 802-2 (TEMP 802-2)). Improvements to system simulation, stimulation, Information Assurance (IA), software and network architectures, and safety are included. 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 torpedo DCL and ASW sonar combat system capability improvements. This COTS-based Surface Ship ASW combat system, the AN/SQQ-89A(V)15, is currently planned as a backfit program for both CG47 (select CG59-73 Baseline 3 and 4 ships) and DDG51 (All DDG and follow 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) and Advanced Surveillance Build (ASB) programs and will in turn share unique improvements developed under this program with the submarine and surveillance ASW communities. This project will also contribute to the development of Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) ASW Mission Packages. Project 1916 also includes funding for the Surface Ship Engineering 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.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2016
• Source ID: 0205620N_7_1319_PB_2016
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2016 funding request was reduced by $.725 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acoustic Detectors
• Classification
• Computing System Architectures
• Cost Analysis
• Data Processing
• Detection
• Detectors
• Frequency
• Navy
• Open System Architecture
• Production
• Small Business
• Sonar
• Spiral Development
• Test And Evaluation
• Undersea Warfare
• Warfare

Readers

• Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
• Strategic Security Studies