UCAS Technical Maturation
Abstract
The Navy Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) program is an Advanced Development effort. The Navy UCAS program will be structured to match program resources to United States Navy objectives/constraints with the goals of identifying and maturing critical technologies and reducing the risk of carrier integration of a UCAS. Candidate technology maturation efforts include transformational communications, advanced integrated propulsion, aircraft carrier suitable materials, Low Observable (LO) sensors and apertures, sense and avoid functionality (all operating in a LO environment), autonomous operations (software algorithms and interfaces), and computer resource data storage and access systems. Modeling, simulation, analysis, industrial capability assessments, system/component development, and analysis of architectures and concept designs are being developed as a result of the demonstration. Maturation of candidate technologies support the evaluation of alternatives needed for a future milestone decision.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- 3191_0604402N_7_1319_PB_2013
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