(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 (OASuW-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. The OASuW program is part of the Navy's Integrated Fire Control (IFC) approach to address advanced threat capabilities in the Anti-Access/Area-Denial (A2AD) environment. IFC solutions enable individual system capabilities to be leveraged across an effects chain, placing the full spectrum of tactical capability in the hands of the warfighter. IFC solutions that push engagement distances beyond the launch platform's radar horizon and allows the U.S. Navy to operate in, and control, contested battle space in littoral waters and A2/AD environments are increasingly critical as more and more scenarios require compressed and coordinated fire control timelines. Budget Item Justification: OASuW-1 Funding supports the delivery of an EOC of OASuW-1 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). 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 met 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. The Technology Maturation efforts in FY 2015 through FY 2017 culminated in a system level Critical Design Review (CDR) level review at SETR 4.0. SETR 3.0 in 4QFY 2015 provided a CDR-level review to support the Knowledge Point 3 decision to initiate the Integration and Test phase for the all-up-round components. SETR 5.0 held in 1QFY 2017 to support Knowledge Point 4 obtained MDA to enter into production. 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, 2018
• Source ID: 0604786N_4_1319_PB_2018
• Change Summary Explanation: Program: LRASM FY 2017 funding increase of $60.7M and FY 2018 increase of $25.9M to enable the program to maintain EOC schedule and fully funds the program to Milestone B certified levels. OASuW INC 2 funding reduction of $11.5M reflects program deferment. Schedule: Production - LRASM FY 2017 Production Buy moved from 2QFY 2017 to 3QFY 2017.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Force
• Air Launched
• Anti-Ship Missiles
• Area Denial
• Contracts
• Department Of Defense
• Developmental Tests
• Engineering
• Free Flight
• Performance Tests
• Procurement
• Space Environments
• Surface Warfare
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Weapon Systems

Readers

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

Technology Areas

• Space