Fleet METOC Equipment

Abstract

This project provides for the engineering and manufacturing development of sensors, communication interfaces, processing and display meteorological and oceanographic (METOC) equipment. This equipment is designed to provide future mission capabilities for war fighters to measure, ingest, store, process, distribute and display METOC parameters and derived products. This project also exploits new government off-the-shelf /commercial off-the-shelf technologies, tactical sensors and web enablement for the Navy's computer-based tactical shipboard and shore capability used to predict and assess the operational effects of the physical environment on the performance of platforms, weapons and sensor systems. This project includes development of warfare specific mission planning modules to support unmanned systems with integration of data from environmental and tactical sensor systems, model forecast information and Geospatial Information & Services Databases. This project also supports development of autonomous environmental sensing systems for situational awareness and tactical decision aid/mission planner support, as well as iridium and advanced satellite communication integration in METOC sensor, vehicle control and mission planning systems that will be required to achieve full reach back capability. Major emphasis areas include the Littoral Battlespace Sensors - Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (LBS-UUV) comprised of ocean LBS Gliders (G) and LBS Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (AUV), the Navy Integrated Tactical Environmental System Next Generation, the Marine Corps Meteorological Mobile Facility Replacement Next Generation, and the Environmental Satellite Receiver Processor (comprised of AN/SMQ-11 sea and shore configuration) and AN/FMQ-17 (shore configuration)) programs of record, and the Future Mission Capabilities (METOC FMC) project. FY 2011 request provides for the continued development of advanced tools and techniques for METOC asset allocation, METOC decision support applications and interfaces to tactical and strategic decision aids along with component and prototype efforts associated with acquiring environmental data, and the development of an end-to-end methodology to collect, fuse, and integrate these data into Navy and DoD networks and command and control nodes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2011
Source ID
2345_0604218N_5_1319_PB_2011

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Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space
  • Space - Satellites

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