(U) Innovative Naval Prototypes (INP) Adv Tech Dev
Abstract
The efforts described in this Program Element (PE) address the Advanced Technology Development associated with the Innovative Naval Prototypes (INP) Program and its associated Leap Ahead Technology (LA-Tech) investments. These investments represent game changing technologies with the potential to revolutionize operational concepts. They are disruptive in nature as they would dramatically change the way naval forces fight. INPs push the imagination of our nation's technical talent to deliver transformational warfighting capabilities. The projects in this portfolio are high risk, technically challenging technology development efforts that offer the potential of high warfighting payoff in the future. The goal of these investments is to develop and demonstrate the viability of new technological capabilities via experimental prototypes that prove the new capability could be implemented if an acquisition program were to be established to further develop the demonstrated capability. These investments are selected by a process that involves senior leadership in the Department of the Navy, with new INPs approved by the 4-star RDT&E Corporate Board. Developing INPs and Leap Ahead Technologies requires the development of subsystems and components, and efforts to integrate these subsystems and components into system prototypes for field experiments and tests in an appropriate environment. The efforts funded within this PE include concept and technology demonstrations of components and subsystems, which may be form, fit and function prototypes or scaled models that serve the same demonstration purpose. The goal of these development efforts is to prove the technological feasibility and assessment of subsystem and component operability and producibility rather than the development of hardware for service use. By demonstrating the general military utility and direct relevance to identified military needs, the pre-Milestone B technology becomes available for transition and further development within an emerging or new Program of Record. INPs and LA-Tech investments do not necessarily lead to subsequent development or procurement phases, but they do have the goal of moving out of Science and Technology (S&T) and into the acquisition process within the future years defense program (FYDP). This is a new PE for FY 2018 that consolidates all Navy 6.3 Advanced Technology Development investments funding INPs and their associated LA-Tech investments into a single Navy 6.3 PE. In FY 2017, these investments were spread across 5 separate 6.3 PEs: 0603114N Power Projection Advanced Technology, 0603123N Force Protection Advanced Technology, 0603271N Electromagnetic Systems Advanced Technology, 0603747N Undersea Warfare Advanced Technology and 0603758N Navy Warfighting Experiments and Demonstrations. The consolidation in this PE allows all investments within this portfolio to be viewed in one place. It greatly enhances the visibility of the program by providing an easily navigable overview of all 6.3 Advanced Technology Development INP and LA-Tech investments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- 0603801N_3_1319_PB_2018
- Change Summary Explanation
- Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable.
- Service Agency Name
- Navy
Entities
Organizations
- United States Navy
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