(U)Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare Weapon Dev

Abstract

Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare (OASuW) will be an offensive weapon system that can be air, surface, and subsurface launched in the maritime battle space environment. OASuW will be a vital component of the Joint Force Anti-Surface Warfare capability and incorporate new and emergent technologies to support an increased offensive strike capability. Due to emerging threats, the fleet issued an Urgent Operational Needs Statement (UONS) that identified a capability gap for a long-range anti-ship missile to be filled by 2018. Directly supporting this UONS and significantly reducing Joint Force warfighting risks, the U.S. Navy initiated OASuW Increment 1, which leverages the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA)/Office of Naval Research Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) demonstration program to deliver an Early Operational Capability (EOC) in the required timeframe. LRASM fills the most urgent air-launched capability gap to compliment, existing ASuW weapon systems and positions the Department of Defense to address evolving surface warfare threats. Longer term OASuW requirements will be addressed in the future by OASuW Increment II. Budget Item Justification: OASuW (Increment I) Funding supports the delivery of an EOC of OASuW Increment I's LRASM weapon system, including the transition of the LRASM demonstration design into a fielded air-launched weapon system, using an accelerated acquisition approach, with streamlined governance. The program is leveraging DoDI 5000.02i Model 4 to structure the acquisition strategy, which includes a highly integrated and concurrent transition design, integration, and developmental / operational test program to meet the EOC schedule required by the UONS. To manage the accelerated timeline and resulting concurrency, the program uses a structured Knowledge Point review process that support decisions regarding significant program events such as transition from design to integration phase and contract awards. These reviews also provide senior DoD leadership the opportunity to provide focused support and active management of technical and acquisition risk and are chaired by the Service Acquisition Executive, ASN(RDA), and the Deputy Director of DARPA. The knowledge points are similar to acquisition milestone reviews, but occur more frequently and are tailored to program-specific milestone events. Of note, the OASuW Increment I knowledge points are defined differently than GAO defines the same term and are tailored to program-specific milestone events. The program intends to meet the statutory requirements associated with Milestone B at Knowledge Point 3. In addition to the Knowledge Point reviews, Executive Steering Board reviews, chaired by the MDA, are held at least monthly. Supporting these reviews, the associated engineering approach is designed to mitigate resulting risk by implementing a rolling-wave engineering progression based on the NAVAIR Systems Engineering Technical Review (SETR) process to enable detailed planning and decisions as the system matures. This process includes capstone SETR events that are tailored reviews using standard design review criteria. SETR 2.0 in FY15 provided a Production Design Review level review of the system and supported the Knowledge Point 2 decision to continue toward the Integration and Test phase. The Technology Maturation effort in FY15 and FY16 culminates in a system Critical Design Review (CDR) level review at SETR 4.0. SETR 3.0 in late 2015 provides a CDR-level review and supports the Knowledge Point 3 decision to initiate the Integration and Test phase for the all-up-round components. In FY16, engineering design to transition the DARPA demonstration design to a weaponized configuration continues at an accelerated pace during the Technology Maturation phase, and the Integration and Test phase will be initiated. The Technology Maturation phase will conduct two major design reviews in FY16, completing this phase and solidifying the design required for Integration and Test phase. As the Integration and Test phase begins, test articles will be procured to support system integration, ground test, and flight test. This creates a compressed, concurrent schedule in FY16, which is required to meet the fleet fielding requirement specified in the UONS that drives the need for increased funding levels in FY16. This program is funded under ADVANCED COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT AND PROTOTYPES because it includes all efforts necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative models or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2016
• Source ID: 0604786N_4_1319_PB_2016
• Change Summary Explanation: Schedule: Updated to address accelerated acquisition approach to meet the urgent need for an air launched anti-surface warfare capability. Knowledge Point 2 moved from 4th Qtr 2014 to 1st Qtr 2015 (update decision date). SETR 3.0 (Production Design Review level)added 4th Qtr 2015. Knowledge Point 3 moved from 4th Qtr 2015 to 1st Qtr 2016 (update decision need date). Milestone B added, coincident with Knowledge Point 3 (MDA decision at Knowledge Point 2). SETR 4.0 (Critical Design Review level) moved from 2nd Qtr 2016 to 3rd Qtr 2016 (Integrated Master Schedule forecast update). Knowledge Point 5 moved from 2nd Qtr 2018 to 4th Qtr 2018 (updated decision need date). Test assets added to FY2014-2018 with deliveries starting in 3rd Qtr 2015 through 2nd Qtr 2018 (updated fidelity of plan). Production schedule added to FY2017-2020 with deliveries starting in 2nd Qtr 2018 through 1st Qtr 2022 (updated fidelity of plan).
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Launched
• Anti-Ship Missiles
• Contractors
• Contracts
• Cost Analysis
• Costs
• Department Of Defense
• Engineering
• Governments
• Procurement
• Product Development
• Surface Warfare
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Weapon Systems
• Weapons

Readers

• Defense Acquisition Program Management
• Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

• Space