Project NAUTICA: Integrated Theater ASW C4I
Abstract
The Networked Architecture for Undersea Theater Integrated C2 Advantage (NAUTICA) project provides Theater Anti-Submarine Warfare (TASW) architecture development, systems engineering, and design. NAUTICA will identify requirements to integrate intelligence (operational and tactical) and sensor (national and organic) systems to provide a fully informed Naval Integrated Fires - Counter Undersea (N2CX) Common Operational Picture (COP) of enemy undersea forces, maximizing decision superiority and theater level planning, and address TASW C2. Using Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), NAUTICA decomposes warfighting requirements into system requirements allocated to existing Programs of Record or identified as new program requirements. Theater Undersea Warfare Operations Center's (TUSWOC) systems today are not integrated to support performance requirements during all threat levels. This results in failure to most effectively employ Theater USW assets. Near term, the Project will continue to accelerate development by rapidly prototyping the framework for existing legacy systems to be federated, to exchange key information and significantly improve existing TASW capability. NAUTICA will also establish a transition path for new USW technologies such as the Operational Planning Tool (OPT), Water Space Planner (WASP), Battlespace Management Tactical Decision Aid (BAM TDA), and other Future Naval Capabilities (FNCs) that will start to transition Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5/6 enabling technologies into the USW-DSS Program of Record. FY 2024 continues the effort required to deliver an integrated TASW battle management suite. NAUTICA investments are prioritized in accordance with the Commander U.S. Fleet Forces endorsement of "Theater ASW Capability Requirements" letter (dated 24 February 2017) and Center for Security Forces (CSF) letter "Criticality of Sustaining Prevention of Mutual Interference (PMI) and Water Space Management (WSM) Capability and Meeting Emerging Requirements for Great Competition" submitted to OPNAV N2N6. The design of the integrated TASW battle management suite will include a system of systems TASW architecture to enable the existing programs of record under development from the Program Executive Office (PEO) for Integrated Warfare Systems (IWS), PEO Command, Controls, Communications, Computers and intelligence (C4I), PEO AIR, PEO Undersea Warfare Systems (UWS), and N9SP to exploit a common framework. The common architecture will define the key data exchanges, common displays and processing, data models, cross domain interfaces, and multi-level security software that will enable systems such as USW-DSS to exchange, display, and exploit information at the appropriate classifications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- 3439_0604518N_5_1319_PB_2024
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