Surface Mine Countermeasures
Abstract
The Surface Mine Countermeasures (SMCM) Program Element (PE) provides resources in support of development of mine countermeasures systems to provide minehunting 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 neutralizing operations worldwide. Resources are for developing and deploying advanced minehunting and neutralization 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. 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. The Surface Mine Countermeasures 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, Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Class and other platforms. 1) The AN/AQS-20 is a minehunting and identification system with sensors housed in an underwater towed body. The sensors are designed for the detection, classification and localization of bottom, close-tethered, and volume targets, and for the identification of bottom targets. The system can be deployed from the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) as part of the MCM Mission Package or can be deployed from other Vessels of Opportunity (VOO). The MCM USV is the tow platform for the AN/AQS-20. 2) AN/SQQ-32(V)4 High-Frequency, Wide Band (HFWB) is a technology upgrade to the AN/SQQ-32 Towed Body which incorporated HFWB technology into the detection sonar to address performance deficiencies against new mine threats in the littorals. This upgrade was installed on MCM-1 Class ships. 3) AN/SLQ-60 Mine Neutralization System (MNS) Seafox on the MCM Class ships. MNS is the replacement to the existing AN/SLQ-48 Mine Neutralization System. 4) Mine Warfare and Environmental Decision Aids Library (MEDAL) is the U.S. Navy's single Mine Warfare (MIW) tactical decision support system for integrated mission planning, evaluation, and situational awareness. MEDAL provides mine warfare planning and evaluation tools and databases to mine countermeasures (MCM) Commanders and is employed at the unit level to perform MCM sortie planning and evaluation. The current MEDAL increment, known as MEDAL Enterprise Architecture (EA), is no longer dependent on Global Command and Control System - Maritime (GCCS-M) for fielding to MIW fleet users. MEDAL EA is a family of systems, comprised of the following three components: MINEnet Global, MINEnet Tactical, and Minefield Planning. MINEnet Global is a shore-based website that provides MIW waterspace awareness functionality to support Navy non-MIW forces. MINEnet Global provides downloadable reference databases, MIW reference publications and links to MIW information. The MINEnet Tactical component is a software application which provides MCM tactical planning, situational awareness and post mission evaluation capabilities. It is fielded to standard Navy networks including, Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES), Integrated Shipboard Network System (ISNS), and Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) servers and uses common web browsers as the user interface. Minefield Planning is also a tactical software application which provides the capability to plan mining operations. 5) MIW Integrated Synthetic Trainer (MIST) will provide integrated phase training for MIW staffs in end-to-end MCM scenarios. This tool will provide the capability to train MIW staffs against near peer threats.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 0604127N_4_1319_PB_2025
- Change Summary Explanation
- FY 2023 reflects a net decrease of $429k for SBIR assessments. FY 2024 no adjustments FY 2025 reduced by $171K for miscellaneous adjustments.
- Service Agency Name
- Navy
Entities
Organizations
- United States Navy
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