Surface & Shallow Water MCM

Abstract

This program element provides resources for development of mine countermeasure systems to provide minehunting, minesweeping, and neutralization to counter known and projected mine threats. The mine countermeasures systems provide mobile, quick reaction forces capable of land or sea-based minehunting and minesweeping operations worldwide. Resources are for developing and deploying advanced mine-hunting and minesweeping systems and the intelligence and oceanographic capabilities that will enable mine warfare superiority. Tactics and techniques used vary across a diversity of environments and a diversity of threats, including both asymmetric and emerging. Resources provide for systems and support of mine warfare systems, maritime systems, and expeditionary systems to allow for continuous operations of the Navy's warships and support vessels, other military vessels, and commercial vessels. Core capabilities include forward presence, deterrence, sea control, power projection, maritime security, humanitarian assistance and disaster response to maintain freedom of the seas. Increased capability includes conducting minefield reconnaissance (mine density and location) at high area search rates, improving detection capability, decreasing sensor false alarm rates, reducing or eliminating post-mission analysis detect, classify, identify, decide time, improving neutralization time, improving network communications, automatic target recognition, and achieving in-stride detect-to-engage capability. Concept of operations includes development of cooperative, unmanned, modular systems; the establishment of a capable networked command and control systems; and standing up an accurate and interactive environmental system with the ability to form and disseminate a Common Environmental Picture. Efforts benefit the Mine Countermeasure (MCM) force by transforming the Navy from the platform-centered legacy set of systems to a capability-centered force that is distributed, networked, and able to provide unique maritime influence and access across the entire maritime domain. Efforts also include undersea domain efforts associated with the Snakehead Large Displacement UUV (LDUUV), as well as efforts for the new Medium Displacement USV starting in FY19 which will serve as the unmanned surface vessel portion of the Navy's Future Surface Combatant (FSC) strategy. The Surface Mine Countermeasures (SMCM) programs are in general platform independent and will provide detection, classification, localization, identification, neutralization, and influence clearance capabilities. Programs develop: (1) Unmanned minehunting capability for surface platforms; (2) the integration and improvement of new and existing systems (3) support for systems which detect, localize, classify, identify, and neutralize all mine types across MCM Avenger Class and other platforms; (4) systems for neutralizing mines and light obstacles through the entire water column to include deep water, open water, shallow water, very shallow water, surf zones, and beach landing craft zones in support of operations; (5) the integration of Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUVs) to meet Undersea Surveillance capabilities as well as other prioritized and enduring capabilities, requirements and gaps; (6) integrate hardware for experimental testing related to surface ship, aircraft, and other cross platform applications; and (7) provide for the future unmanned portion of the FSC strategy.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
• Source ID: 0603502N_4_1319_PB_2019
• Change Summary Explanation: Program Adjustments: FY17 -$39,014K Total adjustments; Congressional Reductions: -$2,000K LDUUV Support Excess Growth, -$43,000K LDUUV - Continue Risk Reduction & Technology maturation effort only, -$3,694K SBIR, +$9,680K FY17 JUNE ATR Prior Approval Request. FY18 No Change FY19 -$171,146K Total adjustments; Program adjustments: -$145,106K realignment to new Program Elements; -$20,432K realignment of UUV, +$12,000K MCM Acceleration, -$10,000K past execution and congressional marks, +$2,800K Medium Displacement USV (MDUSV), +$2,500K synthetic trainer, -$3,090K ABS Excess growth, -$1,173K MEDAL unjustified growth; Other Rate Adjustments: -$5,792K under execution reduction, -$853K miscellaneous adjustments.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• C4I
• Cyber
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Cognitive Systems Engineering
• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Control Systems
• Cost Analysis
• Detection
• Detectors
• Littoral Combat Ships
• Product Development
• Software Development
• Systems Engineering
• Target Recognition
• Test And Evaluation
• Underwater Vehicles
• Unmanned Surface Vehicles
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
• Warfare

Fields of Study

• Environmental science

Readers

• 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