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Abstract
Note: Prior year Undersea Warfare Decision Support System (USW-DSS) funding ended in FY 2013. This budget represents the restoral of USW-DSS development efforts, re-starting in FY 2017, for the modernization of Program of Record (PoR) Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and Command, Control, Communications and Computer (C4) systems. Upgrades are required to address Cyber Security and End of Life (EOL) issues, improve capability and system interoperability, and implement Theater ASW (TASW). USW-DSS provides the integrated, near-real time, net-centric ASW Common Tactical Picture (CTP) / Common Operational Picture (COP) on an electronic Master Tactical Plot (eMTP) capability across multiple surface platforms and critical shore sites. USW-DSS is a C4 capability, identified in the ASW Initial Capabilities Document (ICD), for the Sea Combat, Theater USW (TUSW), and ASW Commanders, and enables the planning and conduct of USW operations, alignment of sensors for exploitation of the environment, allocation of resources, optimization of operations and risk, and vulnerability assessment. USW-DSS provides USW Commanders with an expanded, net-centric USW capability across Carrier Strike Group (CSG) platforms (CVNs, CG/DDGs, and Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS)) as well as supporting shore nodes to include Theater Surface Combatants (TSC), Training, Naval Oceanographic Processing Facility (NOPF), and Commander Task Force (CTF). USW-DSS processing software is hosted on the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) and implements a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). USW-DSS capability is phased to deliver timely and cost-effective software improvements to the warfighter. The current software version, Build 2 Release 3, will continue to field until the follow-on Build 3 is ready for Initial Operational Capability (IOC) certification in FY 2020.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- 0604518N_5_1319_PB_2018
- Change Summary Explanation
- Funding: FY 2018: Net increase by $+1.060M to begin the integration of high-level fusion and other technologies/capabilities and implementation of cyber security and boundary defense requirements in support of TASW ($+1.100M) offset by decreases ($-0.040M) for Naval Innovative Science & Engineering (NISE)/Section 219 and NWCF rate adjustments. YEAR-TO-YEAR OVERALL BUDGET CONTROL INCREASES/DECREASES: - FY 2017 to FY 2018 increase ($+1.779M) is required to accelerate the development and test of the cyber security requirements to implement the multi-level security that results from the new sensors from cross-domain systems (Distributed Common Ground System - Navy (DCGS-N)). Schedule Changes from PB17 to PB18: The nomenclature of USW-DSS builds has been changed. Future builds, beyond the currently fielded Build 2/Release 3 systems, will be categorized as Fleet Capability Releases (FCR). Build 3 became Build 3/Fleet Capability Release 1. Build 4 became Build 3/Fleet Capability Release 2. As the program has moved closer to execution, required efforts, events and time lines have been further evaluated and refined/adjusted accordingly. This increased the design/development phases and adjusted the start of the Integration/Test and Certification Test events. Additionally, integration and test events were delayed in order to accommodate the integration of new cyber security requirements, as directed for all Navy systems in FY16. These new cyber security requirements resulted in increased design and development costs in FY 2017 and FY 2018.
- Service Agency Name
- Navy
Entities
Organizations
- United States Navy
Related Documents
- Child Project: USW Decision Support
- Child Accomplishment: USW-DSS Capability Improvements