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 is 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 complement existing ASuW weapon systems and positions the Department of Defense to address evolving surface warfare threats. LRASM is integral to realizing the National Defense Strategy of combat-credible military forces to deter war, protect the security of our nation and to enable the Joint Force to win should deterrence fail. The development and acquisition of LRASM has been structured to be fielded at a pace relevant to maintain overmatch against long-term strategic competition. Specifically, LRASM directly contributes to building a more lethal force and is a critical enabler for joint lethality in contested environments; deterring adversaries from aggression; ensuring common domains remain open and maintaining favorable regional balances of power. 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 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. The program met statutory requirements associated with Milestone B at Knowledge Point 3. In addition to the Knowledge Point reviews, the program also conducts Executive Steering Board reviews, chaired by the MDA. 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. Subsequent to baseline OASuW Increment 1, the LRASM v1.1 capability improvements program will continue in the same manner with continued reviews and test events to achieve incorporation of those improvements in future production units. 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, 2021
• Source ID: 0604786N_4_1319_PB_2021
• Change Summary Explanation: LRASM v1.1 capability improvements efforts that initiated in FY 2019 continue through FY 2022 to ensure tactical dominance for the warfighter over a longer period of time by providing sanctuary employment against capital warships. Enhancements include range increase, improved communication capabilities, increased survivability and the associated testing for LRASM. Decrease in FY 2021 funding from FY 2020 is due to LRASM v1.1 developmental material procurements already on order. FY 2021 funds continue labor for development integration and testing of the v1.1 capability. The FY 2021 funding request was reduced by $5.0M to account for the availability of prior year execution balances.
• 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
• Contracts
• Department Of Defense
• Emerging Threats
• Engineering
• Military Research
• National Security
• Organizational Structure
• Procurement
• Product Development
• Space Environments
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Warfare

Readers

• Defense Acquisition Program Management
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Technology Areas

• Space