Navy Large Unmanned Surface and Undersea Vehicles: Background and Issues for Congress

Abstract

The Navy wants to develop and procure three types of large unmanned vehicles (UVs) called Large Unmanned Surface Vehicles (LUSVs), Medium Unmanned Surface Vehicles (MUSVs), and Extra-Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (XLUUVs). The Navy's proposed FY2022 budget requests $434.1 million in research and development funding for these large UVs and their enabling technologies. The Navy wants to acquire these large UVs as part of an effort to shift the Navy to a more distributed fleet architecture. Compared to the current fleet architecture, this more distributed architecture is to include a smaller proportion of larger ships (such as large-deck aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, large amphibious ships, and large resupply ships), a larger proportion of smaller ships (such as frigates, corvettes, smaller amphibious ships, and smaller resupply ships), and a new third tier of large UVs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 20, 2021
Accession Number
AD1152205

Entities

People

  • Ronald O'Rourke

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Autonomous Navigation
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomous Weapons
  • Boats
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Command And Control
  • Congress
  • Control Systems
  • Employment
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Vessels (Combatant)
  • Navy
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Tilt Rotor Aircraft
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Maritime Systems
  • Unmanned Surface Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
  • Unmanned Vehicles

Readers

  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy