Payload Delivery Development
Abstract
Decrease in funds from FY22 to FY23 is due to a change in approach for the Program Payload Delivery Development is a program used for the integration of deployable and retrievable payloads with submarines. RDT&EN funding will be used to develop a prototype payload launch and recovery system utilized with submarine large ocean interfaces to accommodate payloads and offboard systems. The project enables launch and recovery of these systems from submarines. This will provide the Submarine Force with the capability to launch and recover payloads and offboard systems of various configurations in support of critical Undersea Warfare (USW) missions, providing battle space awareness and extending war-fighting reach in support of Subsea and Seabed Warfare (SSW) mission objectives. 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, Subsea and Seabed Warfare (SSW), Counter- Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Warfare, Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare (EMMW), Deception, and Non-Lethal Sea Control. This capability is paramount to winning the great power competition emerging between world powers and maintaining dominance in the undersea domain. In addition to technology development, the program will support engineering and integration of new and existing technologies to enable rapid prototyping and fielding of future payload capabilities for VIRGINIA Class (VCS) Payload Modules (Block V and VI) and will be in coordination with the Tactical Submarine Evolution Plan (TSEP) objectives for VCS Block VII and/or SSN(x). The prototype system capability will also provide the Fleet [i.e., Commander, Naval Submarine Forces (COMSUBFOR), Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Squadron One (UUVRON ONE), etc.] with the ability to conduct Fleet funded experimentation with unmanned payloads, enabling an agile environment through at-sea demonstrations, which will provide Fleet and acquisition stakeholders with relevant payload employment data to inform Concepts of Operations (CONOPs) and fielding decisions for future systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Source ID
- 2096_0603561N_4_1319_PB_2023
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