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 FY23-24 due to contractor challenges and supplier issues. The Navy is working with Boeing to mitigate schedule delays and execute risk reduction testing beginning in FY23 through the addition of a designated test and training asset (Vehicle 0). 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 FY26 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, 2024
Source ID
0604536N_4_1319_PB_2024
Change Summary Explanation
Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable. Cost: FY 2022: -$1.012M Small Business Innovative Research FY 2023: -$22.008M Direct Congressional reduction - XLUUV testing delays, -$0.357M general Congressional reduction FY 2024: +$29.930M XLUUV Forward Operating Base and Program Wholeness; -$0.222M Miscellaneous adjustments
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

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

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy

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