Combat Information Center Conv

Abstract

The FY 2020 funding request was reduced by $1.0 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. PROJECT 3094: Undersea Warfare Decision Support System (USW-DSS) is the Navy Program of Record (PoR) Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Command & Control (C2) Net-Centric system supporting warfighters. USW-DSS is a C2 capability identified in the ASW Initial Capabilities Document (ICD), for the Sea Combat Commander (SCC) and Theater USW Commander (TUSWC). USW-DSS enables effective planning and execution of undersea warfare (USW) operations, optimizes placement of sensors for exploitation of the environment, manages available resources, balances operations versus risk, and provides a clear vulnerability assessment of the operational environment. Tactical data such as tracks, environmental, and sensor processing data is ingested into USW-DSS through platform specific interfaces such as the AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 sonar system, the Global Command and Control System - Maritime (GCCS-M), and Aircraft Carrier Tactical Support Center (CV-TSC). USW-DSS processes this and other tactical data and supports intelligent dissemination of the data to unit level and theater level platforms in support of an enhanced USW tactical picture. USW-DSS provides USW Commanders with an expanded, net-centric USW collaborative capability across Carrier Strike Group (CSG) platforms (CVNs, CGs, DDGs) as well as supporting shore nodes to include Commander Task Force (CTF), Naval Oceanographic Processing Facility (NOPF), and Tactical Operations Center (TOC), Mobile Tactical Operations Centers (M-TOC). Future USW-DSS capability is phased to deliver timely and cost-effective software improvements to the warfighter via the Build / Fleet Capability Release (FCR) process. USW-DSS Build 3/FCR 1 continues the development of the integrated, near-real time, net-centric ASW Common Tactical Picture (CTP) / Common Operational Picture (COP) on an electronic Master Tactical Plot (eMTP) for the TUSWC and critical shore command sites. Through targeted architectural improvements, Build 3/FCR 1 and follow-on FCRs will facilitate the migration of select components of USW-DSS to a DoD commercial cloud computing environment, thus improving software performance and scalability while keeping future hardware costs in check. Additionally, Build 3/FCR 1 and beyond are targeted to support operations across different security enclaves, and additional platform tactical data interfaces such as the P-8A Poseidon, submarines, and Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS) fixed sensors. On afloat platforms, USW-DSS processing software is virtualized for portability and is hosted on the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) and implements a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). The current software version, Build 2 Release 3 (B2R3), will continue to field until the follow-on Build 3/FCR 2 (the next planned release to afloat assets) is ready for Initial Operational Capability (IOC) certification in FY 2022. For support nodes and ashore nodes USW-DSS processing software is hosted on Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware. PROJECT 3439: Effective FY 2019, a new initiative titled Networked Architecture for Undersea Theater Integrated C2 Advantage (NAUTICA) was established for Theater Undersea Warfare (TUSW) architecture development, systems engineering, and design. NAUTICA integrates intelligence (operational and tactical) and sensor (national and organic) systems to provide a fully informed Common Operational Picture (COP) of enemy undersea forces, maximizing decision superiority and theater level planning, and address TUSW Command and Control (C2). The Navy plan for NAUTICA was approved by the June 2017 Flag Oversight Board and subsequently a roadmap was developed in FY 2018. The Theater Undersea Warfare Operations Center's (TUSWOC) systems today are not integrated to support performance requirements during all threat levels. This results in failure to most effectively employ Theater USW assets. Near term, FY 2019 accelerates development by rapid prototyping the framework for existing legacy systems to be federated to be exchange key information and significantly improve existing TUSW capability. FY 2019 initiates the system engineering effort required to design, develop and deliver an integrated TUSW battle management suite in accordance with the 2007 Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Initial Capabilities Document (ICD). The plan prioritizes NAUTICA investments in accordance with the Commander U.S. Fleet Forces endorsement of "Theater ASW Capability Requirements" letter (dated 24 February 2017). The design of the integrated TUSW battle management suite will include a system of systems TUSW architecture to enable the existing programs of record under development from PEO IWS, PEO C4I, PEO AIR, and N9SP to exploit a common framework. The common architecture will define the key data exchanges, common displays and processing, data models, cross domain interfaces, and multi-level security software that will enable systems such as Distributed Common on Ground System-Navy (DCGS-N) and USW-DSS to exchange, display and exploit information at the appropriate classifications. Funding under this project will also establish a transition path for new technologies such as the Operational Planning Tool (OPT), Water Space Planner (WASP), Battle Management TDA, and other Future Naval Capabilities (FNCs) that will start to transition Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5/6 enabling technologies into the USW-DSS and DCGS-N Programs of Record (PORs).

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2020
• Source ID: 0604518N_5_1319_PB_2020
• Change Summary Explanation: FUNDING CHANGES AT THE OVERALL PE LEVEL: - FY 2018 decrease of -$3.768M included: -$3.665M for a Congressionally directed reduction and -$0.103M for Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) transfer. - FY 2019 decrease of -$0.040M reflects a Congressionally directed general reduction for Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs). - FY 2020 decrease of -$1.123M included: -$1.000M reduction to account for the availability of prior year execution balances, -$0.059M for Contractor Services Reform reduction, and -$0.064M for various rate adjustments.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Cyber
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Human Systems
• Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Combat Information Centers
• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Control Systems
• Data Fusion
• Decision Support Systems
• Navy
• Sensor Fusion
• Software Development
• Software Prototyping
• Submarine Warfare
• System Of Systems
• Systems Engineering
• Tactical Decision Aids
• Test And Evaluation
• Undersea Warfare
• Warfare

Fields of Study

• Computer science
• Engineering

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Microelectronics
• Space