Unmanned Aerial System

Abstract

Project 3448 - The first Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Expeditionary (MUX) Family of Systems (FoS) element is Medium-Altitude, Long-Endurance (MALE), a land-based Group 5 UAS based on the MQ-9A Block 5 weapon system. MALE is the number two service priority for the USMC and is scheduled for Early Operation Capability (EOC) in FY23. MALE provides Advanced Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems in support of Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), Littoral Operations in Contested Environments (LOCE), and Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) and an advanced, unmanned, multi-mission capability for the MAGTF and Marine Littoral Regiment. MALE will pursue a discrete Airborne Early Warning (AEW) & Anti Surface Warfare (ASuW) sensor Acquisition Strategy, award contracts for sensor selection, technical requirements generation, conduct initial MQ-9A Block 5 integration studies, and maintain and operate air vehicle test assets. Prioritized mission sets are: Airborne Communications and Data Relay; Airborne Early Warning (AEW); Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR); and Electronic Warfare (EW). MALE supports national and Naval-networked command and control of U.S. forces across all warfighting domains in future contested operating environments, enhances situational awareness, expands sensor over watch capacity, enables expansion of the monitored operational area around naval forces, and enhances survivability.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0603128N_4_1319_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: Project 3448 - FY22 funding continues work initiated under PE 0304240M and reflects funding transferred from PE 0304240M to this PE to address capability gaps identified in the October 2016 MUX ICD and associated Requirements Clarification document. FY22 funding was reduced by $0.121 due to miscellaneous rate adjustments. Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Airborne Early Warning
• Aircrafts
• Altitude
• Command And Control
• Contracts
• Electronic Warfare
• Engineering
• Medium Altitude
• Product Development
• Situational Awareness
• Task Forces
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Vehicles
• Weapon Systems

Readers

• Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
• 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
• Microelectronics
• Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems