Undersea Warfare

Abstract

The CNO's ASW initiative is a focused effort to identify the most promising ASW technologies through a process of discovery, assessment, experimentation, and analysis. The CNO's ASW initiative will coordinate the development of technologies which move beyond incremental or marginal improvements in ASW effectiveness. The CNO's vision of "fundamentally changing the way ASW is currently conducted to render the enemy submarine irrelevant against U.S. and coalition forces", necessitates a change in the calculus of how the US Navy conducts ASW. Central to the CNO's ASW initiatives achieving the CNO's vision are several innovative approaches which include using the art-of-the-technologically-possible; minimizing force-on-force; reducing the ASW end-to-end time line; supporting rapid maneuver; developing off-board and distributed ASW detection systems; and finding innovative weapons solutions. To achieve these key approaches, it is essential to develop new ASW technologies and conduct at-sea experiments to prove/disprove technology concepts and collect corroborating data. The most promising technology concepts from government laboratories, university research centers, and industry are developed to the point where these technologies can be tested in at-sea experiments, with the objective of transitioning those which demonstrate exceptional capability to programs of record.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2011
Source ID
1704_0603553N_4_1319_PB_2011

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  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design

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