Tactical Unmanned Aer Vehicles

Abstract

The MQ-8 Unmanned Air System is a Joint Military Intelligence Program. This program element provides funding for the software development capabilities associated with Mission modules of the Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. This project is a Joint Military Intelligence Program. The Tactical Control System (TCS), a component of the MQ-8 System, provides software for the joint tactical MQ-8 Fire Scout System. TCS integrated into the MQ-8 Mission Control System (MCS) provides the warfighters with the capability for day/night aerial Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), target acquisition, voice, data and command and control communications/relay, and mine detection and localization. Additionally, TCS provides a multi-level, scalable, and flexible operator control of the air vehicles and payloads as well as direct receipt and dissemination of unmanned aerial vehicle sensor data.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 0305204N_7_1319_PB_2024
• Change Summary Explanation: Funding: The FY 2024 Request increased by $0.050M since the previous President's Budget submission due to inflation and working capital fund rate adjustments. Schedule: TCS schedule deliveries updated to reflect changes in MQ-8 Fire Scout schedule milestones. Version 10 is scheduled to complete in the fourth quarter of FY 2023. This aligns with MQ-8 and supports subsequent TCS deliveries. Coastal Battlefield Reconnaissance and Analysis (COBRA) was renamed Mine Counter Measures (MCM) to refer to the capability. The schedule was updated to incorporate TCS versions in support of continued MQ-8 operations with the addition of MCM, Optical Sensor System and Datalink Networks.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• C4I
• Cyber
• Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Aircrafts
• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Control Systems
• Engineering
• Ground Control Stations
• Littoral Combat Ships
• Military Intelligence
• Nato
• Operating Systems
• Program Management
• Software Development
• Standards
• Surveillance
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

• Engineering

Readers

• Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.
• Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control