Air/Ocean Tactical Applications

Abstract

The Air Ocean Tactical Applications (AOTA) Program Element is aligned with the Navy's maritime strategy to enhance the future mission capabilities of the Navy-Marine Corps Meteorological and Oceanographic (METOC) Team supporting naval warfighters worldwide. New state-of-the art government and commercial technologies are identified, transitioned, demonstrated and then integrated into Combat Systems and programs of record to provide capabilities that provide real-time and near-real-time operational effects of the physical environment on the performance of combat forces and their new and emerging platforms, sensors, systems and munitions. The AOTA program element focuses on sensing and characterizing and predicting the littoral and deep-strike battlespace in the context of regional conflicts and crisis response scenarios. Projects in this program element transition state-of-the art sensing, assimilation, modeling and decision aid technologies from government and commercial sources. Unique project development efforts include atmospheric and oceanographic data assimilation techniques, forecast models, data base management systems and associated software for use in mainframe, desktop and laptop computers. Model data, products and services can be used by forward-deployed personnel or in a reach-back mode to optimize sensor placement and force allocation decisions. Global Geospatial Information and Services efforts within this program address the bathymetric needs of the Navy. Also developed are algorithms to process new satellite sensor data for integration into Navy and Marine Corps decision support systems and for display as part of the common operational and tactical pictures. In addition, the projects provide for demonstration and validation of specialized atmospheric and oceanographic instrumentation and measurement techniques, new sensors, communications and interfaces. Included are new capabilities to assess, predict and enhance the performance of current and emerging undersea warfare and mine warfare weapons systems. AOTA capabilities are designed to support the latest versions of the Global Command and Control System and specific unit-level combat systems. This program element develops technological upgrades for the U.S. Naval Observatory's Master Clock system to meet requirements of Department of Defense communications, cryptographic, intelligence, geolocation, and targeting systems; develops near-real-time earth orientation predictions; develops very precise determination of positions of both faint and bright stars; and supports satellite tracking and space debris studies. Major emphasis areas include the Naval Integrated Tactical Environmental System Next Generation (NITES-Next) and the METOC Future Mission Capabilities, the METOC Space-Based Sensing Capabilities, the Precise Timing and Astrometry, the Fleet Synthetic Training, the Tactical Oceanographic Capabilities for Under Sea Warfare, the Earth System Prediction Capability projects, and the Remote Sensing Capability Development.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
• Source ID: 0603207N_4_1319_PB_2015
• Change Summary Explanation: Technical: Added funding to Naval Integrated Tactical Environmental System Next Generation (NITES-Next) program development and Future Mission Capabilities (FMC) efforts in FY15. Beginning in FY15 the Remote Sensing Capability Development program will collect target data for development of automated algorithms. Schedule: The schedule for the Remote Sensing Capability Development program is added to reflect the programs development efforts beginning in FY15.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Human Systems
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes
• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Antisubmarine Warfare
• Artificial Satellites
• Computers
• Control Systems
• Data Acquisition
• Database Management Systems
• Databases
• Measurement
• Meteorological Satellites
• Naval Operations
• Navy
• Submarine Warfare
• Test And Evaluation
• Undersea Warfare
• Unified Combatant Commands
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
• Warfare

Fields of Study

• Environmental science

Readers

• Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Space