Maritime Missileer
Abstract
The Maritime Missileer program will develop small, low-cost, disaggregated naval platforms to demonstrate the ability to perform persistent power projection and force application combat missions currently conducted from large, high-value capital ships. This network of platforms will project power and provide sea control across the spectrum of conflict, presenting potential adversaries with a dramatically different and rapidly reconfigurable order of battle. Maritime Missileer is envisioned as a family of heterogeneous systems, incorporating advanced autonomy and artificial intelligence to permit stand-in operations in even the mostly heavily contested environments. Effects are delivered with novel approaches to achieving mobility, potentially leveraging innovations in commercial shipbuilding and logistics, and platforms may vary from unmanned, to optionally manned, to manned. Technologies to be developed include advanced propulsion, energy sources for long-term operations, autonomous re-arming and re-fueling, self-maintenance, high-reliability communications, as well as hardware and software approaches to enhance system reliability, adaptability, and autonomous self-defense/anti-tamper.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- 02a6f4670f3d826c48ad048a0c0b54c7