(U)Advanced Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System

Abstract

The Navy identified capability gaps in the Navy's Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) concept that could be addressed with a next generation, sea-based Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operating from Surface Combatant Ships. This program element provided for the maturation, prototyping, and demonstration of advanced platform, payload, networking, and enabling technologies. Technologies that required further maturation included 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. All results from these demonstrations are available to refine requirements for the next generation of maritime aviation Family of Systems (FOS), and may directly support capability gaps associated with the Future Surface Combatant (FSC). This project provided 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 conducted requirements analysis and studies for allocation of requirements for manned/unmanned platforms needed for DMO and for operations on FSC. Candidate technologies were focused on developing new DMO platforms and the required sensors and communications relay payloads that are enabling technologies for DMO.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2021
Source ID
0304240N_4_1319_PB_2021
Change Summary Explanation
Schedule: Not Applicable Technical: Not Applicable Cost: Not Applicable
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Altitude
  • Aviation Technology
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Commerce
  • Contracts
  • Costs
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Demonstrations
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Maturation
  • Medium Altitude
  • Prototypes
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • 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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