Long Range Fires Joint Force Operations in GPS-Denied and Degraded Environments

Abstract

The employment of Long-Range Fires is a high priority for the U.S. Navy, addressing the capability of forces to coordinate an emerging arsenal of deep strike weapons that can be launched from an array of joint assets against critical enemy assets at sea or hardened facilities on land. Additionally, the Long-Range Fires process must be resilient in a degraded or denied environment. However, coordinating Long-Range Fires encompasses a complex set of actions, to include target prioritization and development, command and control, tasking, kinetic and non-kinetic fires, battle damage assessment, rearming and contested logistics. Our approach leverages recent Navy-sponsored MBSE research, simulation, and analysis to include projects involving joint fires within Distributed Maritime Operations and feasibility of deploying hypersonic missiles on U.S. surface ships. We apply a similar approach here but augment it with a system of systems analysis of Long-Range Fires in a degraded and denied environment as part of a timely and relevant joint operational scenario. We examine significant design decisions and operational parameters, as well as appropriate measures of effectiveness, in generating successful Long-Range Fires through systems architecture development and simulation analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2022
Accession Number
AD1213724

Entities

People

  • Luis R. Gonzalez-velazquez
  • Matthew R. Murphy
  • Muhammad S. Anwar
  • Raafay A. Qureshi

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Aircrafts
  • Battle Damage Assessment
  • Command And Control
  • Damage Assessment
  • Detection
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Experimental Design
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Hypersonic Glide Vehicles
  • Hypersonic Missiles
  • Hypersonic Weapons
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Regression Analysis
  • Systems Engineering
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Fire Suppression Systems Design.
  • Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Hypersonics
  • Space