(U)Advanced Undersea Prototyping

Abstract

In order to accelerate future capability and support steady growth of the fleet's Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) Family of Systems (FoS), advanced undersea prototyping efforts include development, fabrication and test of the ORCA Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (XLUUVs) and associated UUV technologies and will advance the development of unmanned undersea vehicles systems by leveraging ONR and Industry UUV efforts for larger diameter vehicles and associated technologies. Payloads will be customized to meet Navy needs and demonstrate useful capability for the fleet. The program intends to utilize fleet demonstrations of existing XLUUVs to rapidly and affordably capture tactics, techniques, and procedures in operating XLUUVs prior to delivery of the initial XLUUV vehicles to the fleet. This will help develop experience and demonstrate launch, communications, command and control, navigation, endurance, recovery, payload feasibility, and mission planning and execution for XLUUVs. XLUUV energy prototyping will leverage existing independent research and development in energy-dense technology that could meet power requirements for future XLUUV missions that are limited by the amount of power currently available. Efforts include research, development, test, and evaluation of advanced development model energy solutions applicable to XLUUVs for increased energy endurance and efficiency to extend the reach of unmanned undersea systems. The Common Control/Autonomy efforts will include risk reduction and developmental efforts of autonomy systems and architectures to work to develop common standards, interfaces, and systems to support cross-domain applications. The payloads efforts will include investigation, experimentation, demonstration, development and integration of lethal and non-lethal payloads, as applicable. Beginning in FY19, this PE will only focus on the XLUUV Class of vehicles since the core technologies efforts were moved to PE 0604029N starting in FY19.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2019
Source ID
0604536N_4_1319_PB_2019
Change Summary Explanation
Program Changes: FY17: -$21,219K: -$35,000K Congressional Reduction, +$15,890K Congressional Add for AUWP, -$2,115K SBIR/STTR Reduction, -$1K Miscellaneous Adjustments. FY18: Not applicable. FY19: -$18,899K; +$20,432K Internal Program realignment, -$30,187K technical realignment to new PE, -$984K miscellaneous adjustments and -$8,160K underexecution. Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Command And Control
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cross Domain
  • Engineering
  • Guidance
  • Materials
  • Navigation
  • Product Development
  • Product Prototyping
  • Systems Engineering
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Readers

  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control

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