Submarine Tactical Warfare System

Abstract

Project Unit 0236: This program develops Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) based software and hardware upgrades to integrate improved tactical and weapons control capabilities for multiple submarine Classes (SSN-688, SSGN, SEAWOLF, SSBN and VIRGINIA (Post Shakedown Availability)). The AN/BYG-1 is the combat control system common across submarine platforms which incorporates tactical control, payload control, and tactical Local Area Network (LAN) functions into a single development program. AN/BYG-1 allows the submarine to rapidly update the ship safety tactical picture, integrate the common tactical picture into the battlegroup, improve torpedo interfaces, and provide Tactical TOMAHAWK (TOMAHAWK Block IV) capability. The hardware upgrades, Technology Insertions (TI) are developed on a biennial basis to provide improved capability and address COTS obsolescence. Funding also accommodates the biennial integration of software Advanced Processing Builds (APB) for both tactical control (APB(T)) and payload control (APB(P)) subsystems. The tactical control integration effort incorporates the integration of other sensor (ESM, sonar, radar, etc.) inputs to provide a common operational picture and improved situational awareness in an information assurance (IA) compliant environment. The Weapon Control development effort described in PB-16 has been renamed Payload Control to account for non-weaponized unmanned vehicles. The payload control development effort provides improvements to the payloads control subsystem based on improvements to missiles and torpedoes as well as development of a modernized Payload Control System (PCS) architecture to support various payload such as, but not limited to, Modular Undersea Heavyweight Vehicle (MUHV), Unmanned Undersea Vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), torpedoes, and Sub Launched Mobile Mines (SLMM). Provides funding for the development of Payloads Launch System, Multi-tube Weapons System (MTWS), Information Assurance (IA) system, Onboard Team Trainer (OBTT), and Command, Control, Computer and Intelligence Maintenance Tool (C3IMT). FY 18 adds development of a Common Infrastructure Services (CIS) subsystem. This involves integration of Onboard Team Trainer - Master Controller (OBTT - MC) & Command, Control, Computer and Intelligence Maintenance Tool (C3IMT)/Inter-Subsystem Monitoring Tool (ISMT) efforts as well as other common services within SWFTS. CIS will be an independent subsystem with its own software development and testing efforts, requiring additional funding to complete product delivery to platforms. FY18 also integrates additional Tactical Data Link (TDL) capabilities for Command & Control situational awareness. In FY19, additional R&D effort to develop WCS architecture, support MK48, APB 5+, and APB 6 efforts as well as development of CyberSafe Controls.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• Source ID: 0604562N_5_1319_PB_2018
• Change Summary Explanation: Added $1.250 million of FY 2018 funding for integration of additional Tactical Data Link (TDL) capabilities for Command & Control situational awareness.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Computers
• Control Systems
• Data Links
• Information Assurance
• Local Area Networks
• Situational Awareness
• Software Development
• Tactical Data Links
• Tactical Warfare
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
• Unmanned Vehicles
• Vehicles
• Vulnerability
• Weapon Control

Fields of Study

• Computer science
• Engineering

Readers

• Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy