Surface & Shallow Water MCM

Abstract

This program element provides resources for development of unmanned mine countermeasures systems to provide minehunting, minesweeping, and mine neutralization to counter known and projected mine threats. The mine countermeasures systems provide mobile, quick reaction forces capable of land-based or sea-based minehunting and minesweeping operations worldwide. Resources are for developing and deploying advanced minehunting 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 system; 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. 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 Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Class and other vessels of opportunity (VOO) platforms; (4) systems for neutralizing mines through the entire water column to include deep water, open water, and shallow water in support of operations.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0603502N_4_1319_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: Program Adjustments: FY20: -$19,809K total; -$4,000K reprogramming, -$15,809K SBIR reduction FY21: -$4,783K total; -$233K general congressional reduction, -$4,550 Barracuda schedule delays FY22: +$724K total; +$1,700K program adjustments, -$976K misc rate adjustments Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• C4I
• Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Autonomous Navigation
• Command And Control
• Control Systems
• Defense Systems
• Deployment
• Lessons Learned
• Littoral Combat Ships
• Logistics
• Manufacturing
• Navy
• Procurement
• Systems Engineering
• Target Recognition
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Surface Vehicles
• Unmanned Systems
• Warfare

Readers

• Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

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