Congressional Adds
Abstract
A continuing need exists to improve submarine capabilities to improve safety of ship, survivability, and operational effectiveness in the increasingly dense littoral environment encountered by submarines prosecuting special missions in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). Improvements are necessary for operational effectiveness in the following mission areas: Joint Littoral Warfare, Joint Surveillance, Space and Electronic Warfare, Intelligence Collection, Maritime Protection, and Joint Strike. The ASSEP program is currently investigating means to improve effectiveness in these areas and is pursuing the development of a 360 degree imaging system. In order to maximize the availability of this type of system to the fleet as well as providing an increased number of available, enhanced capability systems for consideration and future competitive procurement, additional investigation into the development of an initial capability Engineering Development Model (EDM) as well as the investigation into alternate enhanced capability technologies for long term solutions is required. In addition to this requirement, there is a need to extend the Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Targeting (ISRT) reach of the submarine conducting these missions to points over the horizon. In order to achieve this end the ASSEP program is investigating potential means of providing a stealthy launch of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) to conduct these needed ISRT tasks. All programs funded in this project are non-acquisition category programs. Program plans and priorities are established by N87. The test articles identified consist of critical components that will be fully developed during engineering development into EDMs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 9999_0603562N_4_1319_PB_2012