Medium Range Maritime UAS

Abstract

Note: FY11 efforts are budgeted in PE 0305204N, Project Unit 2501 ($26.352M). MRMUAS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Joint Military intelligence Program. The Medium-Range Maritime Unmanned Aerial System (MRMUAS) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle as a program commenced under PE 0305204N. This new PE was established to fund the Technology Development (TD) and Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phases of the MRMUAS program. The MRMUAS intended to provide persistent, sea-based, airborne, real-time and near-real-time Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance data to Maritime and Special Operations Forces. The MRMUAS will be capable of carrying reconfigurable, multi-Intelligence payloads to extended ranges. MRMUAS will launch and recover vertically, making it employable from all air-capable ships, as well as land bases. The MRMUAS will be able to operate within line-of-sight of a ship, similar to the MQ-8 (Fire Scout) Vertical Take-off unmanned Aerial Vehicle, as well as in a remote, split-based mode that will allow take-off and landing from an air-capable ship and control hand-off to a Mission Control Element via Satellite Command for Beyond Line of Sight operations. The MRMUAS will allow communications to relay between supported forces, as well as broadcast payload data to the supported forces. Interoperability will be achieved through the use of a common control station, also used by Fire Scout, with software modifications for the MRMUAS air vehicle and mission systems. The data from the MRMUAS will be provided through standard DoD Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance systems and networks. MRMUAS is a potential joint program.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: 0305237N_7_1319_PB_2012
• Change Summary Explanation: This is a new PE established with funding for the TD and EMD phases of the MRMUAS program.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Capable Ships
• Aircrafts
• Budgets
• Contingency Operations (Military)
• Contracts
• Cost Analysis
• Elements
• Engineering
• Ground Control Stations
• Line Of Sight
• Molecular Dynamics
• Surveillance
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Vehicles
• Warfare

Readers

• Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

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