MK-48 ADCAP

Abstract

A. (U) Mission Description and Budget Item Justification: MK-48 ADCAP (Advanced Capability) Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) program executes incremental evelopment of weapon performance improvements in three development product areas: (1) Common Broadband Advanced Sonar System (CBASS), (2) Advanced Processor Builds (APBs), and (3) Torpedo Technology Insertion. The budget enables Acquisition Category (ACAT) III development to address Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) defined capability-based equirements and mission needs. This Program Element (0205632N/0366) is tied to development programs that leverage a joint United States/Australia Armaments Cooperative Project (ACP) to develop MK-48 ADCAP CBASS; and Future Naval Capability (FNC) technologies developed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). (U) Countermeasure (CM) sophistication and availability on the open market directly affects ADCAP kill proficiency and its ability to counter rapidly evolving threats. The focus of the MK-48 ADCAP torpedo Research and Development (R&D) program for FY01 and out shifted from being primarily concentrated on Software Block Upgrade (BUG) efforts towards coordinated hardware upgrades, rapid Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) insertion, and APBs to rapidly upgrade the ADCAP to counter evolving threats and maintain robust performance. The CBASS program developed and fielded a broadband sonar capable of identifying CMs and discriminating them from the target. CBASS developed 22 test articles (2 test vehicles and 20 Engineering Development Models {EDMs}). CBASS met Milestone II requirements on 6 March 1998 and received milestone Decision Authority (MDA) approval to proceed into the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase. CBASS Phase I received Full Rate Production (FRP) decision in June 2006. Initial Operational Capability (IOC) occurred during FY06. The Commonwealth of Australia, Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is participating to jointly develop CBASS torpedo and signed an ACP Agreement March 2003. The intent of the CBASS program was to achieve improvements in shallow water torpedo performance. (U) The MK-48 ADCAP torpedo R&D program focuses on two specific areas near term: Torpedo APBs and broadband sonar capability. The CNO continues to stress shallow water (less than 600 feet) as a critical operating area to counter third world diesel electric submarines. Torpedo testing in shallow water has demonstrated that in-service ADCAP has less than full capability in this difficult environment. However, this testing, in conjunction with laboratory simulation efforts, has shown that significant performance improvements can be made by implementing changes to weapon tactics and software algorithms. Development, implementation, and testing of these changes is being accomplished under the Torpedo APB program. This program also leverages the RAN joint torpedo program and FNC technologies developed by the ONR in the areas of torpedo broadband signal processing, tactics processing, and alertment. The Torpedo APB program also will incorporate MK-54 Lightweight torpedo algorithms and tactics software to create a Common Torpedo Development program. Future APB software builds will utilize the common torpedo software to deliver software and tactics to both the MK-48 ADCAP and MK-54 Lightweight torpedoes. (U) The Torpedo Technology Insertion program will provide for evolutionary torpedo improvements and upgrades (including the transition and testing of advanced technologies from the R&D community (6.2/6.3 and contractors). This approach will incorporate developmental testing of the FNC transitioning technologies for ADCAP upgrades in the areas of torpedo sensors, weapon/platform connectivity, warhead lethality, speed and depth. These efforts will continue torpedo development investment at a lower cost and shorter term than traditional torpedo programs. (U) Both FNC technologies and MK-54 Lightweight torpedo developments will be transitioned into ADCAP through Technology Insertion packages. Priorities for Technology Insertion are a new array to improve torpedo effectiveness, advanced processing, and advanced counter-countermeasure capability.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
• Source ID: 0205632N_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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Broadband
• Commerce
• Communication Systems
• Cost Analysis
• Costs
• Counter Countermeasures
• Engineering
• Naval Operations
• Shallow Water
• Signal Processing
• Small Business
• Test And Evaluation
• Torpedoes
• United States
• Water
• Weapons

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