Warfare Support System

Abstract

The Naval Coastal Warfare (NCW) community consists of 22 Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare (MIUW) units and 8 Harbor Defense Command (HDC) units operating Mobile Ashore Support Terminal IIIs (MAST IIIs). NCW also includes 14 Inshore Boat Units (IBU) comprised of 6 small craft (boats) each on which are installed C4I systems . The Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare - System Upgrade (MIUW-SU), the primary system used by the NCW MIUW Units, is the only land-based and rapidly deployable mobile Navy system with the ability to conduct surface and subsurface surveillance in coastal and littoral areas. The system provides detailed contact information via various C4I systems to the tactical area commander based on radar, visual, thermal, electronic, and underwater acoustic sensor information. Missions supported with the MIUW-SU's are: OCONUS and INCONUS Force Protection, protecting port areas, high value assets, and surveilling the near shore areas. The MAST III is the C4ISR hub for the NCW Commander. MAST IIIs deploy to support Force Protection/Force Security Officer for Commander, Amphibious Group in its Harbor Defense and Coastal Sea Control missions. In the aftermath of the attack on USS COLE and particularly post 11 SEP, the role, structure, and utilization for the NCW program has changed appreciably and continues to evolve in the face of developing world events. However, the core competencies resident in expeditionary NCW forces to conduct surveillance, C4I and patrol/interdiction have not changed. NCW remains a specialized force constituted to accomplish specific tasks under specific conditions, but also agile enough to fill emergent and non-traditional roles. Post 11 SEP, NCW Groups and Units have been mobilized to perform force protection missions at different levels in all CinC area of responsibility (AOR)'s and within the continental United States in support of Maritime Homeland Security. This RDT&E exhibit supports the future direction of Naval Coastal Warfare as it is being determined externally by world events and internally by the progress of DoD initiatives to replace Cold War forces and capabilities with 21st century transformational forces and capabilities. NCW forces currently field legacy systems designed to counter more traditional military threats in a two Major Theater War scenario. Future NCW forces will develop into a highly effective, relatively low cost transformational force capable of operating anywhere in the world to perform a spectrum of force protection missions ranging from full scale port security/harbor defense operations during wartime to short duration point defense of high value units or facilities in operations other than war. This transformational force will be agile, tailorable, and scalable and will use applied technology to quickly detect, deter or interdict potential threats to DoN assets in the littoral environment. Next generation surface and subsurface surveillance systems, as well as enhanced C4I capabilities, are required to meet these operational objectives. These capabilities must be interoperable with higher and adjacent echelons of command (to include coalition allies) as well as with supporting elements to include joint forces. Sea Eagle is an Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) with USN as lead service and USSOCOM as the Combatant Command sponsor. Sea Eagle will provide integrated and enhanced technologies in order to provide persistent, clandestine, and unattended monitoring of denied and sensitive maritime, littoral, and harbor areas. These sensors and systems will be deliverable by Special Operational Forces (SOF) and networked in a multi-media (sea, air, land) system of systems approach. Sea Eagle will focus on close access networking, both wireless through air and underwater, to support networked tactical sensors. The special operations warfighter will tactically emplace Sea Eagle systems to provide targeted, tactical information that complements national and theater intelligence assets to enable a layered intelligence collection strategy. Riverine Force will integrate and employ a variety of surface and air assets, special vehicles, weapons and appropriately trained personnel. Mission assets needed to support the operational capabilities will vary widely dependant on the Host Nations involved. The Riverine Squadron will deploy with inherent, but limited, force protection capabilities. The Modular Unmanned Scouting Craft Littoral (MUSCL) is man-portable "X-Class" Unmanned Surface Vehicle providing enhanced surveillance and reconnaissance capability to Naval Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC) Riverine forces. Regional Maritime Awareness Capability (RMAC) - support GWOT by providing other USG Agencies with maritime traffic information that is not currently available. RMAC also provides enhanced regional security, safety, economic stability and environmental protection through shared maritime domain awareness (MDA). Naval Irregular Warfare Office (NIWO) will provide for the identification and assessment of available technologies to confront irregular challenges supporting the warfighter. It provides for the validation and combat demonstration of identified technologies and/or packages of technologies to meet warfighter goals via: filed and/or lab testing/demonstration; independent mission testing/demonstration and/or; coordinated mission testing/demonstration. The goal of the NIWO office is to identify those requirements necessary to meet the immediate warfighter needs, integrate those existing unique and/or related capabilities that can best meet those warfighter needs, test those integrated capabilities, and then demonstrate in real time and/or during planned deployments all within an 8 month period. Those areas of capability to be investigated include persistent ISR, close-in expeditionary ISR, conventional forces support to SOF, rotary wing support to SOF, all source intelligence fusion and littoral precision strike capability.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: 0604230N_5_1319_PB_2012
• Change Summary Explanation: Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Human Systems
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes
• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acoustic Detectors
• Asymmetric Warfare
• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Control Systems
• Cost Analysis
• Force Protection
• Manportable Equipment
• Maritime Domain Awareness
• Port Security
• Program Management
• Security
• Surveillance
• System Software
• Undersea Warfare
• Vehicles
• Warfare

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• 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
• Microelectronics