Mine Development

Abstract

The Mines Improvement PE provides resources to develop naval mine systems used to establish and maintain control of essential sea areas. Naval mines are used to deny sea area or inflict damage on adversary shipping to hinder, disrupt, and deny adversary operations. Naval mining is employed to reduce the adversary's threat to friendly forces and preserve access. Mining complements and performs an essential part of other warfare areas; particularly strike, anti-submarine, and anti-surface warfare. Resources are utilized for developing and deploying improvements to the portfolio of naval mines. Different lines of effort are focused on specific aspects of the mission sequence, to enable offensive, defensive, and protective maritime mining across all water depths and phases of conflict. Major lines of effort include: 1)Development of maritime mines to enable safe standoff distances, including integration with airborne and undersea unmanned systems 2 Adding command and control of deployed minefields 3)Improving target detection against modern threat vessels 4)Updating minefield planning tools to enable required operational timelines Increased FY 2022 funding supports mining improvements to increase aerial standoff range and provide precision placement. Increased funding also supports the development of the Hammerhead mine, which complements existing shallow-water mines by operating in deeper water depths and providing a wide area of coverage per unit.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2022
Source ID
0604601N_5_1319_PB_2022
Change Summary Explanation
FY20: -$2.032 total adjustment; -2.033M SBIR reduction, -$0.483M Mines Improvements (PU0267), -$0.580M Encapsulated Effector (PU2993), -$0.970M Congressional Add (PU9999); $0.001M miscellaneous rate adjustment FY21: -$7.402 Encapsulated Effector Delay'a FY22: -$.170 total adjustment; +$31.9M programmatic adjustment for Quickstrike Powered wing (PU0267) kit / -$31.9m reversal and $2.2M for Hammerhead carriage for integration onto deployment platform (PU2993); -$0.607M execution adjustment; -$0.170M misc rate adjustments. The FY2022 funding request was reduced by $0.607 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Arming Devices
  • Command And Control
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Cost Analysis
  • Munitions
  • Naval Mines
  • Product Development
  • Program Management
  • Satellite Guided Weapons
  • Systems Engineering
  • Target Detection
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

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

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