Force Advanced Warfare Concept Technology

Abstract

The Force Advanced Warfare Concept Technology (FACT) Program is an advanced development effort designed to demonstrate Advanced Force concepts and capabilities that will significantly improve our Force defense in depth, including both local area and self defense capabilities against current and future threats. FACT improvements are designed to enhance the warfighting ability of ships and aircraft and to enable coupling of the Force into a single, distributed weapon system and towards more effective use of tactical data and the cooperative use of all the force sensors and weapons. These capabilities will provide the ship offensive flexibility needed to meet the threat brought about by increasing numbers of highly sophisticated weapons held by potentially hostile third world countries. FACT defines requirements and develops prototype systems or modifications to existing systems to test new concepts for the coordination of Force operations. FACT is a model innovation cell which consistently delivers advanced war-fighting capability that addresses current Fleet shortfalls and needs quickly and cost effectively. Some examples of prototype systems now in production are AN/SPS-48C Detection Data Converter, AN/SPS-48E Environmental Control Feature, Shipboard Gridlock System/Automatic Correlation (SGS/AC) and Dial-a-Track Quality (Link-11 Quality Selection). Other FACT developments include the Automatic Identification System and the Multi-Frequency Link-11 capability; Dual Net Multi-Frequency Link-11 Force Threat Evaluation Weapons Assignment; the prototype Area Air Defense Commander and the Joint Targeting Attack and Assessment Capability (JTAAC). During FY10, FACT's OSI continued prototyping of technologies to provide a complete, accurate, wide area, persistent surface track picture in a tactical theater of interest. The emphasis of these technologies was on the planning and detection capabilities required to simultaneously track all surface targets within view of the radar. During FY10 and FY11, the Innovation Team began development and prototyping of technologies to provide a Strike Group with a Geo-Referenced CTMP, incorporating several thousand square miles of accurate, real time surface track data from aircraft such as BAMS, P-3, P-8, MH-60R and Fire Scout UAV. FACT will begin to develop technologies for integration of the tactical surface picture in to surface combat systems such as Aegis and SSDS and technologies to disseminate the CMTP amongst the CSG/ESG. The Innovation Team will also analyze and assess the feasibility of wide area ASW sensor netting.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: 2184_0603755N_4_1319_PB_2012

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Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.
• Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.