Congressional Adds
Abstract
The Office of Naval Research Future Naval Capability (FNC) program, Spectral and Reconnaissance Imagery for Tactical Exploitation (SPRITE), is a science and technology research development project to achieve a multi-sensor payload for Group 3 Small Tactical UAS that incorporates a daytime wide area motion imagery (WAMI) sensor, a Hyper-, Mulit-spectral sensor and a high resolution, narrow field of view (FOV) inspection sensor. The SPRITE FNC research effort maintains an active Technology Transition Agreement (TTA) that is scoped to result in a demonstration event on a target or surrogate Group 3 TUAS in FY20. Pending successful achievement of the development performance criteria, subsequent maturing of the prototype is needed to achieve integration and transition to a Program of Record (POR). The USMC has a standing urgent needs based requirement for a SPRITE capability to provide the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) a flexible, real-time Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)/situational awareness asset that supports Find/Fix/Finish/Exploit/Analyze (F3EA), Counter-Weapons of Mass Destruction, operational over watch, pattern of life analysis, target development, mapping, event reconstruction efforts and force protection missions over city-sized areas. Recognizing that subsets of these advanced EO capabilities are currently mature enough for integration and testing on the USMC RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft before the complete SPRITE capability is available, the congressional add will contribute to the cost required to mature these spinout subsystems into a Wide Area Surveillance payload functional for user evaluation and testing on the RQ-21A within the Unmanned Aerial Systems Payloads program. It is anticipated that this will effectively accelerate this capability transition by 3-5 years, contributing significantly towards the systems engineering, and light weighting redesign of a proof-of-concept prototype.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- 9999_0305239M_7_1319_PB_2020
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