Small and Medium Unmanned Undersea Vehicles

Abstract

Part of the mine countermeasure systems mission is to provide minehunting capabilities to counter known and projected mine threats in support of minehunting operations worldwide, including intelligence and oceanographic capabilities that will enable mine warfare superiority. The Knifefish Surface Mine Countermeasure Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (SMCM UUV) is part of the UUV Family of Systems and is part of the MCM Mission Package (MP). In order to accelerate future capability and support steady growth of the fleet's UUV FoS the Knifefish SMCM UUV program develops advanced Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUVs) to support clandestine mine detection capability against volume, bottom, and buried mines. Equipment includes vehicles and associated systems support equipment. In parallel, Pre-Planned Product Improvement (P3I) design efforts are ongoing to support insertion of incremental capability when the technology is ready. Planned P3I candidates being considered include increased detection range capability, communications upgrades, on-board sonar processing and target recognition, command and control improvements, and other smaller tasks, as well as future payloads as required.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2019
Source ID
0604028N_4_1319_PB_2019
Change Summary Explanation
Program Changes: FY19 +$16,717K transfer to new Program Element from 0603502N. Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Cells
  • Command And Control
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Costs
  • Countermeasures
  • Detection
  • Engineering
  • Fuel Cells
  • Mine Countermeasures
  • Procurement
  • Product Development
  • Target Recognition
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
  • Vehicles

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

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