(U)UAS Integration and Interoperability

Abstract

This PE funds the Unmanned System (UxS) Common Control System (CCS). The primary mission of CCS is to provide common control across the Navy's UxS portfolio to add scalable and adaptable warfighting capability, implement robust cybersecurity attributes, leverage existing government owned products, eliminate redundant software development efforts, consolidate product support, encourage innovation, improve cost control, and enable rapid integration of UxS capabilities across all domains: Aviation, Surface, Sub-Surface, and Ground. This program will define, develop and deliver CCS capability that enables the flexibility for Ground Control Systems (GCS) that could be ship, shore, airborne, or expeditionary based to operate multiple and dissimilar Naval (UxSs). CCS includes a common framework, user interface, and common components that will also be integrated and tested with legacy platform components. CCS is being developed with an open and modular business model with robust cybersecurity implementation and will be provided as Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) to UxS Contractors as required. The CCS acquisition approach is to provide increasing UxS capability through incremental development for UxS platforms as follows: Increment I will provide unmanned vehicle control functionality for launch & recovery, maneuvering & stationing, situational awareness, and health & performance status with a common Vehicle Management (VM) capability using legacy platform Mission Management/Mission Planning (MM/MP) capabilities hosted on legacy platform hardware. UxS platforms for initial CCS transition include CBARS, Triton (MQ-4), and Fire Scout (MQ-8). Efforts will include exploring opportunities for other UxS platforms from across all domains to benefit from CCS invested developments. Increment II will maintain and update, as necessary, the core VM baseline and add common MM/MP capabilities hosted on legacy platform hardware. Increment III aligns Common Control software and hardware for the Naval UxS control segment. CCS is a ship/shore/airborne/expeditionary based common control segment that provides VM and MM/MP capabilities for Naval Group 2 through 5 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and other domain UxS's. The CCS will provide open software architecture, based on the OSD Unmanned Control Segment (UCS) architecture, that is agile and scalable to evolving Service requirements and is supportive of safety/airworthiness certification and cybersecurity certification and accreditation. The CCS PU funds two Speed-to-the-Fleet capability initiatives in FY17: 1) Full Motion Video (FMV) for Geo-intelligence Unified Naval Streaming System (GUNSS) and 2) Moving Target Indicator (MTI) for Broad Area Maritime Surveillance - Demonstrator (BAMS-D). JUSTIFICATION FOR BUDGET ACTIVITY: This program is funded under OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT because it includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2017
• Source ID: 0305205N_7_1319_PB_2017
• Change Summary Explanation: Decrease in UAS Integration and Interoperability by $1.523M as required for the Department of the Navy to comply with the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. The restructure of the UCLASS program in FY17 into Carrier Based Aerial Refueling System (CBARS) predicated the need for the change in the Common Control System (CCS) budget language and acquisition strategy. The new CCS strategy is realigned from increments based on platforms to a capabilities-based strategy. R-2 & R-2A Mission Description: Increment I and II definitions explained in greater detail with regards to vehicle management, mission management, and mission planning. Overall strategy change from Increments structured by Platform to Increments based on Capability Areas CCS Increment strategy realigned to provide: Increment 1: Vehicle Management (VM), formerly UAVC2 Increment 2: Mission Management(MM) and Mission Planning (MP) Increment 3: Common Control Segment R-4 Schedule and Schedule details changed to align with new strategy and new increment definitions.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Cyber
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Aircrafts
• Contracts
• Control Systems
• Full Motion Video
• Government Furnished Equipment
• Ground Control Stations
• Refueling
• Refueling In Flight
• Software Design
• Software Development
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Systems
• Unmanned Vehicles

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Cyber