Advanced Undersea Prototyping

Abstract

The Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) is the Navy's Extra Large UUV effort as part of the Family of UUVs. The Orca XLUUV effort is established to address a Joint Emergent Operational Need (JEON). Orca XLUUV is a multi-phased accelerated acquisition effort to rapidly deliver capability to the Fleet. Phase 1 was a competitively sourced design effort. Phase 2 down selected to one of the Phase 1 vendors in FY 2019 for fabrication and testing of the vehicle and support elements. Testing and delivery of the vehicles and support elements has been delayed to FY22 due to contractor challenges and supplier issues. The Navy is working with Boeing to mitigate schedule delays and execute risk reduction testing under prototyping effort. The Navy is updating facilities at the Naval Base Ventura County site for testing, training, and work-ups, in coordination with large unmanned surface vessel testing for cost efficiencies. Fabrication awards of additional Orca XLUUV systems are planned for FY24 and out, gradually ramping up quantities in future fiscal years, depending on the progress from the first five systems. XLUUV will have a modular payload bay, with defined interfaces that current and future payloads must adhere to for employment from the vehicle. The Orca XLUUV effort will integrate the currently required payload, and potential future payloads will be developed, evaluated, and preliminarily integrated leveraging the Core Technologies Program Element 0604029N. Additional XLUUV technologies/capabilities risk reduction will occur in parallel, leveraging the competitive Industrial base.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2022
Source ID
0604536N_4_1319_PB_2022
Change Summary Explanation
Program Changes: FY20: -$7,081K Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR); -$1K miscellaneous reduction FY21: -$26,046K Test and Evaluation Delays Congressional Reduction; -$516K miscellaneous Congressional reduction FY22: +$8,908K ORCA Payload Capacity Increase ; +$7,190K Development and Testing of the Universal Payload Module for ORCA; -$620K Miscellaneous Adjustments Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Command And Control
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Cost Analysis
  • Engineering
  • Fabrication
  • Guidance
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Support
  • Manufacturing
  • Navigation
  • Product Development
  • Product Prototyping
  • Program Management
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy

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