Unmanned Systems Communications Interoperability (USCI) (Navy)
Abstract
A successful FCT will provide the United States Navy Spark Integration’s Distributed Integration Operating Schema (DIOS™) for integrating unmanned systems and their payloads within a system of systems (SoS) framework. Interoperability amongst manned and unmanned systems is vital for future military operations but is at risk due to time and cost barriers for integrating heterogeneous systems. Current integration of unmanned systems is done on a case by case basis, often creating redundancy, waste and an environment with a variety of vehicles that cannot communicate or interoperate. The primary outputs and efficiencies to be demonstrated in the FCT are: (1) system integration using a product rather than a service, allowing more systems to share information and command and control and moving towards an interoperable environment; and (2) total cost savings over $64.000 million.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 893e9cf50b7f2d9a5b04b5da2fca4696