Tactical Support Center-Integration
Abstract
The AN/SQQ-34 Aircraft Carrier Tactical Support Center (CV-TSC) contributes to Aircraft Carrier (CVN) self defense capabilities. The system provides shipboard support of multi-mission aircraft operating organic to the CVN or under control of the Carrier Strike Group (CSG), providing primary mission support for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and Surface Warfare (SUW). The AN/SQQ-34 also provides auxiliary support for secondary missions such as search and rescue. The system provides the capability to collect, process, analyze, display, and distribute sensor and tactical data in support of detection, classification, and localization of targets. The AN/SQQ-34 is incrementally upgraded to support new air platforms and their sensors, centrally integrate ASW capabilities on the CVN, transition maturing technologies, and maintain interoperability with interfacing systems. The system provides support for both rotary wing aircraft (SH-60F, MH-60R) and future support for fixed wing aircraft operating within the CSG (P-8, BAMS). Additionally, this project will mature the development of low-cost multi-beam Ku-Band planar phased arrays and associated integrated radio systems, and addresses the major cost drivers of planar arrays and their associated radios. This effort will be the first spiral of a major cost reduction effort for multi-beam arrays, with the goal of showing a path to a production cost of less than one third the cost of existing array technologies. This development will produce key integrated components needed to reduce the cost of arrays and will provide prototype multi-beam Ku-Band receiving and transmitting arrays/radios using these components. The effort will also emphasize advances in technologies associated with multi-path interference, scan angle losses and networking waveforms. (Speed to Fleet) The CV-TSC program provides increased situational awareness to the Carrier Strike Group (CSG) in support of force protection, primarily in the area of Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW). A portion of this program will focus on maturing low-cost multi-beam Ku-Band planar phased arrays and associated integrated radio systems that will be used to support data links to multiple MH-60Rs. This specific effort will address the need for low cost communications security (COMSEC) devices that are compatible with phased array systems, and that are needed to secure these data links.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- 3216._0603512N_4_1319_PB_2015
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