Payload Delivery Development
Abstract
Payload Delivery Development is a non-acquisition program that supports innovative research and development efforts to enable integration of deployable and /or retrievable undersea vehicles, payload concepts, and offboard systems through design, manufacture, test/demonstration, evaluation, and validation for submarine platforms. In addition to technology development, the program will support engineering and integration of new and existing technologies to enable rapid prototyping and fielding of capabilities which will inform and provide solutions to urgent war-fighter needs. Experimentation and demonstration will be conducted with the Fleet (i.e., CSF, UUVRON, etc.) enabling an agile environment to demonstrate and provide high velocity learning through at-sea demonstrations, which will provide the Fleet and acquisition communities relevant employment data to inform CONOPs and fielding decisions. The program will furthermore support transition of high-interest systems and/or payloads from research and development to Programs of Record (PoRs), as appropriate. Payload Handling System (PHS) PHS is used to enable capabilities for the integration of large deployable and retrievable undersea vehicles, payloads, and offboard systems with submarines. RDT&EN funding will be used to design, manufacture, and field an integrated system utilized with submarine large ocean interfaces to enable launch and recovery of systems such as the Navy's Snakehead Large Diameter Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (LDUUV), the Shallow Water Combat Submersible (SWCS), and the LBS-AUV(S) from submarines, a capability which does not currently exist. This capability will allow the Submarine Force the flexibility to launch and recover Snakehead, SWCS, LBS-AUV(S), and other advanced systems of various configurations in support of critical Undersea Warfare (USW) missions, providing battle space awareness and extending war-fighting reach. This capability has been identified as a key enabler for the following critical USW mission areas: Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR), Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), Anti-Surface Warfare (ASUW), Naval Special Warfare (NSW), Mine Warfare, Seabed Warfare, Counter - Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Warfare, Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare (EMMW), Deception, and Non-Lethal Sea Control. This capability is paramount to countering evolving threats from emerging world powers and maintaining dominance in the undersea domain. Program growth from FY17 to FY18 is required in order to provide necessary design and engineering team support for the completion of preliminary design review (PDR) for the PHS and transition to critical design in FY18. The nominal level of preliminary design tasking planned for FY17 will be increased significantly in FY18 to support development of design products which will comprise the technical package for PDR and the basis for detailed design to support critical design review (CDR). Additional FY18 growth efforts will include development of interface control between PHS, submarine platforms, and hosted offboard systems, and collaborative engineering efforts required for integration into both current and future submarine designs. Funding below requested levels would result in delay of PHS delivery and risk to payload integration into current and future submarines, severely limiting Fleet capability to launch and recover undersea vehicles, payloads, and offboard systems in support of critical undersea warfare (USW) missions. Additionally, all far forward USW mission tasking will continue to be limited to only manned platforms and prevent the Submarine Force from exploiting the potential of offboard systems for conducting otherwise impossible tasks. 3" Sub Launched Unmanned Aerial System (SL-UAS) SL-UAS project supports the future missions of the VIRGINIA Class Program and its payload module. The project will focus on the overall design, system engineering, prototyping, demonstrations, and qualification activities needed to execute the integration of a payload with Blackwing for rapid deployment with an integrated solution into existing shipboard systems. This system will be demonstrated on a US Submarine, at a land based facility, or on another host platform by the end of FY20. Capability will transition to the Submarine Combat Control System Program Office (PMS 425). The following key activities support a critical capability for Undersea Warfare (USW) missions by providing close-in defense for the Submarine Force against adversary systems: 1. Engineering and integration of existing/proven technology and payloads required to provide the capabilities to maintain dominance in the undersea domain. 2. Communication modifications for transition of new capability into both current and future submarine designs. 3. Testing and demonstrations necessary to prove out the capability and Concept of Operations (CONOP). 4. Development of a high density storage system to safely stow proposed equipment types onboard submarines.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- 2096_0603561N_4_1319_PB_2018
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