Marine TACAIR Challenge 2020: Team the Joint Strike Fighter with the Next Unmanned Aircraft System

Abstract

Over the next decade, Marine TACAIR will transition to two new airframes-the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) and the Marine Corps Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (MCTUAS). Both platforms will bring sophisticated tools to the future fight. Yet if operated independently, each one will fail to contend fully with the gaps in operational capabilities and emerging threats that the Marine Corps will face in 2020. Interestingly, no current developments address how these advanced systems will fight together in the same airspace. To meet these challenges, the JSF and MCTUAS must team together and collaborate across TACAIR functions. Conceptual capabilities such as collective cross cueing, mutual mission tasking and exchangeable command and control will enable these platforms to perform cooperative air operations. These principles advance a concept to team manned and, unmanned TACAIR aircraft in order to mitigate the challenges encountered over the next several decades.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 05, 2010
Accession Number
ADA600357

Entities

People

  • Scott D. Schoeman

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Power
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Ground Control Stations
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Naval Engineering and Maritime Security
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space