Advanced Submarine System Development

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) supports innovative research and development in submarine Hull, Mechanical and Electrical (HM&E) and combat systems technologies and the subsequent evaluation, demonstration, and validation for submarine platforms. It will increase the submarine technology base and provide subsystem design options not currently feasible. The PE also supports programs transitioning from Science and Technology (S&T), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Independent Research & Development (IR&D), and Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) projects. SUMMARY OF MAJOR BUDGET REQUEST CHANGES IN THIS PE FROM FY 2021 TO FY 2022 (NET DECREASE OF $-51.765M): - PROJECT 0223 net increase from FY 2021 to FY 2022 ($+0.271M) was driven by an increase to the Large Vertical Array (LVA) development program required to pace the threat of evolutionary quieting of adversary submarines. Funding supports the procurement of sensors, urethanes, and cables necessary to fabricate a Conformal Acoustic Velocity Sonar (CAVES) LVA test panel and to stand up a SSN 688i Class CAVES LVA working group that will identify requirements and initiate design concepts. - PROJECT 2033 net decrease from FY 2021 to FY 2022 ($-3.473M) is due to planned phasing within the Advanced Hull Treatments project. Material procurements and the majority of shipyard labor supporting the Hull Treatment patch installation on Virginia Class Submarine (VCS) Hull C occurs in FY 2021. The FY 2022 budget completes final phases of VCS Hull C demo patch installation, and supports data analysis on VCS Hull B treatment patch, as well as technology maturation on other Low Technology Readiness Level (TRL) Office of Naval Research (ONR) developed prototype treatments. - PROJECT 2096 net decrease from FY 2021 to FY 2022 ($-11.358M) reflects the adjustment of funds for the Payload Handling System (PHS). - PROJECT 3391 net increase from FY 2021 to FY 2022 ($+0.396M) supports increased effort for TEMPALT development. - PROJECT 9710 net decrease from FY 2021 to FY 2022 ($-28.601M) is the result of the vertical kill of Project 1. - PROJECT 9999 net decrease from FY 2021 to FY 2022 ($-9.000M) reflects only FY 2021 Congressional Adds. DESCRIPTION/JUSTIFICATION BY PROJECT: PROJECT 0223: The Submarine Combat System Improvement (Advanced) (Non-ACAT) Project researches, develops, and tests new sonar, combat system, imaging, and electronic warfare software and develops, tests, and prototypes new sonar arrays for Program Executive Office Submarine (PEO SUB) programs, delivering approximately thirty (30) new capabilities every other year. This Project supports Navy Submarine Acoustic Superiority and Technology Insertion Initiatives through the application of advanced development and testing of sensors and sensor processing systems supporting tactical control systems improvements. Improvements are supportive of 'A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Sea Power and the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority'; addressing all components to include Strengthen Naval Power At and From Sea, Achieve High Velocity Learning, Strengthen Our Navy Team for the Future, and Expand and Strengthen Our Network of Partners. This Project addresses threats posed by China, Russia, Iran, and Korea, improved lethality of U.S. Submarine Forces and 3rd Offset Capabilities in the Unmanned and Automated Systems domains. Project 0223 is comprised of four (4) major efforts: Advanced Processing Builds (APB), Flank Array Demonstration (FAD), Advanced Sensors, and Large Vertical Array (LVA). APB develops, tests and transitions capabilities for: - APB Acoustics, transitioning to AN/BQQ-10 - APB Tactical Control, transitioning to AN/BYG-1 - APB Imaging, transitioning to AN/BVY-1 - APB Electronic Warfare (EW), transitioning to AN/BLQ-10 FAD conducts testing and analysis on the existing LVA and supports maintenance and correction of identified problems on the array. This project concludes in FY 2020, transitioning results to the LVA project. Advanced Sensors develops new technologies for Hull Mounted and Towed Arrays. Hull Mounted Array improvements support submarine applications only. Towed array improvements are shared to support surface and surveillance applications. LVA leverages demonstrated FAD developments to conduct critical testing and analysis needed to improve array performance and develop sensor employment tactics. It will introduce new electronic hardware and new software applications to enhance array and signal processing performance. These improvements will be incorporated in future LVA builds for VIRGINIA class SSNs and OHIO and COLUMBIA classes of SSBNs as well as backfits. PROJECT 2033: Advanced Submarine Systems Development (ASSD) is a non-acquisition program that develops, matures and tests advanced technologies for successful integration into current and future submarine classes, lowers the technical/cost risks of integrating new technologies prior to acquisition, and speeds the delivery of capability and lethality into the Fleet. ASSD transitions Hull, Mechanical, and Electrical (HM&E) technologies, and future naval concepts from the Science & Technology (S&T) and Research and Development (R&D) communities through the development, maturation, and integration of technology projects to operational submarine platforms for assessment, testing, and evaluation. Once projects have proven their maturity and promise through at-sea demonstration, they are formally transitioned into acquisition Programs Of Record (PORs). Additionally, ASSD operates and maintains R&D infrastructure assets that are critical to the long-term design, assessment and construction of modern, stealthy submarine platforms. Project 2033 is comprised of three budget categories: Strategic Capability Infrastructure, Long Range R&D Investment,and Rapid Technology Development. The major developmental efforts include: Strategic Capability Infrastructure - Large Scale Vehicle (LSV) - Intermediate Scale Measurement System (ISMS) - High Gain Measurement System (HGMS) - South TOTO Acoustic Measurement Facility (STAFAC) Recapitalization Long Range R&D Investment - Advanced Material Propeller (AMP) Technology - Advanced Signature Management - Advanced SSN Technologies - Next Generation Thrust (future propulsor/shafting technologies) - Advanced Hull Treatments Rapid Technology Development - Innovation Technology Transfer PROJECT 2096: Payload Delivery Development, consists of the Payload Handling System (PHS). Payload Delivery Development is a program used for the integration of large deployable and retrievable payloads with submarines. RDT&EN funding will be used to develop a prototype payload launch and recovery system utilized with submarine large ocean interfaces to accommodate large diameter payloads and offboard systems. The project enables launch and recovery of these systems from submarines. This will provide the Submarine Force with the capability to launch and recover large payloads and offboard systems of various configurations in support of critical Undersea Warfare (USW) missions, providing battle space awareness and extending war-fighting reach in support of Subsea and Seabed Warfare (SSW) mission objectives. This capability has been identified as a key enabler for the following critical USW mission areas: Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), Anti-Surface Warfare (ASUW), Naval Special Warfare (NSW), Mine Warfare, Subsea and Seabed Warfare (SSW), Counter- Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Warfare, Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare (EMMW), Deception, and Non-Lethal Sea Control. This capability is paramount to winning the great power competition emerging between world powers and maintaining dominance in the undersea domain. - FY 2022 funding profile decrease reflects the adjustment of funds for the PHS system. PROJECT 3391: In 2013, OPNAV N97 established SSN/SSGN Survivability Program (S3P) as a separate project area within ASSD to assure SSN/SSGN survivability and the ability of submarines to complete their joint warfighting missions even if covert mobility is compromised. FY 2018 is the first year of S3P execution as Project 3391 under ASSD with level funding across the FYDP. PBR 19 proposes technology projects that would help pace world-wide technology advances and red investments so as to track and assess US undersea superiority technology insertion plans and their impact on SSN/SSGN survivability. PROJECT 9710: Details of the project are classified SECRET and are submitted to Congress in the classified budget justification books.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0603561N_4_1319_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: FUNDING CHANGES SINCE THE PREVIOUS PRESIDENT'S BUDGET AT THE OVERALL PE LEVEL: - FY 2020 net decrease of $-4.436M reflects the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) transfer. - FY 2021 net decrease of $-33.809M reflects program adjustments as follows: $-31.440 for Restoring Acquisition Accountability ($-27.430M for Project 9710 and $-4.010M for Project 2096); $-10.543M for Project 9710 Unjustified New Start; $-0.826M for the application of a fair-share Congressional undistributed reduction; $+5.000M for Workforce Partnership Research; and $+4.000M for Improved CAVES Technology. - FY 2022 net decrease of $-54.193M reflects adjustments as follows: $-1.000M to Project 2033 to realign funding for executability; $+4.075M to Project 2033 to fund the South TOTO Acoustic Measurement Facility (STAFAC) acoustic range that reaches end of design life in 2023; $-45.519M to Project 9710 to vertically kill Project 1; and $-9.708M to Project 2096 for higher priority department requirements, and $-0.582M for Navy Working Capital Fund (NWCF) and $-1.459M for miscellaneous rate adjustments. INFORMATION AT THE PROJECT LEVEL: PROJECT 0223: FUNDING: The FY 2021 ($55.171M) to FY 2022 ($55.422M) budget increase ($+0.271M) was driven by an increase to the LVA development program required to pace the threat of evolutionary quieting of adversary submarines. Funding supports the procurement of sensors, urethanes, and cables necessary to fabricate a CAVES LVA test panel and to stand up a SSN 688i Class CAVES LVA working group that will identify requirements and initiate design concepts. SCHEDULE CHANGES: - APB-19 Step-4 At-Sea Test shifted from 2Q20 to 3Q20 and Transition to PEO SUB Production Programs shifted from 3Q20 to 1Q21 due to platform maintenance issues and schedule changes. APB-19 EW Step-4 At-Sea Test was added in 4Q20. - APB-21 Step-4 At-Sea Test/Transition to Program Executive Office for Submarines (PEO SUB) Production Programs moved from 3Q21/4Q21 to 1Q23/2Q23, APB-23 Step-4 At-Sea Test/Transition to PEO SUB Production Programs moved from 2Q23/3Q23 to 1Q25/2Q25, and APB-25 Step-4 At-Sea Test/Transition to PEO SUB Production Programs moved from 2Q25/3Q25 to outside the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP). Beginning in FY 2022, the Navy is pursuing a transformation across Submarine Warfare Federated Tactical Systems (SWFTS) to maximize cyber-resiliency and the speed of capability delivery. The transformation will be accomplished through a transition to an agile development processes comprised of a continuous series of 12-week software program increments in a DevSecOps environment. This process will better align with industry practice and enable the SWFTS systems to leverage industry capability improvements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and other emerging technologies, while also being more responsive to cyber needs. The transformation is aligned to the requirements contained in program Capability Development Documents (CDDs) and to the requirements contained in the OPNAV requirement Letter 9010, Serial N97/19U141554 dated 22 May 2019. As APB delivers via SWFTS, changes are required in the 0223 Project's software development and integration methodologies to remain well synchronized with the production programs. Instead of delivering an improved APB to the PEO SUB SWFTS production programs at the end of development (which the production program offices then had to integrate, mature, test, and certify), development capabilities will now be integrated into the latest SWFTS production hardware baseline as they are ready, on a continuing basis. This adds flexibility to the program, allowing urgent changes to be fielded more rapidly than the previous every-two-years cycle, and provides an integrated software build requiring less effort at the end of development. Dates for final delivery and transition to PEO SUB SWFTS Production Programs of the latest of the 12-week APB software increments are 2Q23 for APB-21 and 2Q25 for APB-23, which is driven by the planned Developmental Test (DT) schedule for the respective APBs. This extended period of APB-21 and APB-23 activity will be used to further mature the product and to allow the introduction of more capability. This new approach has pushed APB-25 delivery and transition to outside of the FYDP. - Additional fidelity was included to better describe Advanced Sensors activity. PROJECT 2033: The FY 2022 funding request was reduced by $1 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. The South TOTO Acoustic Measurement Facility (STAFAC) Recapitalization project has been added to the program of record in FY22. PROJECT 2096: - FY 2022 funding profile decrease reflects the adjustment of funds for the PHS system. PROJECT 3391: S3P top-line resourcing increases to conduct Advanced Signature Management/Countermeasures development. PROJECT 9710: Details of the project are classified SECRET and are submitted to Congress in the classified budget justification books.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

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Communities of Interest

• Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acoustics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
• Control Systems
• Data Analysis
• Electronic Warfare
• Fabrication
• Manufacturing
• Military Research
• Naval Operations
• Naval Warfare
• Navy
• Submarine Warfare
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Test Facilities
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Fields of Study

• Engineering

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• Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

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• Autonomy
• Microelectronics
• Space