(U)Advanced Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System

Abstract

The Navy has identified capability gaps in the Navy's Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) concept that could be filled with a next generation, sea-based Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operating from Surface Combatant Ships. This program element provides for the maturation, prototyping, and demonstration of advanced platform, payload, networking, and enabling technologies in advance of a future program of record. Technologies that require further maturation include advanced Vertical Take-off and Landing air vehicles, advanced data networks that support distributed unmanned operations, and other technologies that enable maritime over the horizon targeting and early warning at safe stand-off distances. These prototypes will be assessed for military utility through fleet experimentation events and large force exercises. Results will be combined with analytical studies to refine requirements for the next generation of maritime aviation Family of Systems (FOS) and will directly support capability gaps associated with the Future Surface Combatant (FSC). This project is a Military Intelligence Program. This project provides for trade studies, analysis, and continued prototype development, testing, fleet experimentation, and concept refinement for next generation manned-unmanned aviation technologies to meet Navy Fleet and Combatant Commander (COCOM) classified warfighter gaps in a DMO construct. This project will also conduct requirements analysis and studies for allocation of requirements for manned/unmanned platforms needed for DMO and for operations on Future Surface Combatants (FSC). Candidate technologies are focused on developing new DMO platforms and the required sensors and communications relay payloads that are enabling technologies for DMO. Technologies currently being developed and assessed for military utility include Advanced Vertical Take-off airframes to include the Tern MALE UAV Advanced Technology Concept Demonstrator (ATCD), developed primarily by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR).

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2020
Source ID
0304240N_4_1319_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
The Department of the Navy terminated TERN UAS in FY 2020. Schedule: Not Applicable Technical: Not applicable
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Commerce
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Cross Domain
  • Data Rate
  • Engineering
  • Medium Altitude
  • Navy
  • Product Prototyping
  • Prototypes
  • Surveillance
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs

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