(U)Innovative Naval Prototypes(INP) Applied Res

Abstract

The efforts described in this Program Element (PE) address the Applied Research associated with the Innovative Naval Prototypes (INP) Program. These investments represent game-changing technologies with the potential to revolutionize operational concepts. They are disruptive in nature as they would dramatically change the way naval forces fight. INPs push the imagination of our nation's technical talent to deliver transformational warfighting capabilities. The projects in this portfolio are high risk, technically challenging development efforts that offer the potential of high warfighting payoff in the future. The goal of these investments is to develop and demonstrate the viability of new technological capabilities via experimental prototypes that prove the new capability could be implemented if an acquisition program were to be established to support further development. These investments are selected by a process that involves senior leadership in the Department of the Navy. Developing INPs requires a systematic expansion and application of knowledge to develop useful materials, devices, and systems oriented toward the design and development of prototypes applicable to specific mission area requirements. The efforts funded within this PE translate promising basic research into solutions for broadly defined military needs. These efforts include developing breadboard hardware and algorithms that establish the initial feasibility and practicality of proposed solutions to technological challenges, such as concept exploration efforts, studies, investigations, and non-system specific technology efforts. This PE was new for FY 2018 and it consolidated all Navy 6.2 investments funding INPs into a single Navy 6.2 PE. In FY 2017, these investments were spread across 4 separate 6.2 PEs: 0602114N Power Projection Applied Research, 0602123N Force Protection Applied Research, 0602271N Electromagnetic Systems Applied Research, and 0602747N Undersea Warfare Applied Research. Accordingly, the projects in the portfolio are no longer distinguished as INPs or Leap Ahead Technologies. Rather, they are now referred to simply as INPs. Due to the nature of these projects, starting in FY19, plans have been written with limited details due to information security concerns. Specific information on each project will be provided separately to the Congressional oversight committees.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2019
Source ID
0602792N_2_1319_PB_2019
Change Summary Explanation
Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Control Systems
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy
  • Force Protection
  • Information Operations
  • Lasers
  • Mesh Networks
  • Military Organizations
  • Undersea Warfare
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Surface Vehicles
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
  • Weapons Effects

Readers

  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

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