Quick Reaction Fund
Abstract
The Quick Reaction Special Projects (QSRP) Program supports four separate projects that provide rapid funding to expedite development and transition of new prototypical technologies to the warfighter. The QSRP Program provides the flexibility to mitigate emerging threats and addresses needs that arise outside the two-year budget cycle. The Quick Reaction Fund (QRF) Program provides the Services, components, Combatant Commands (COCOMs), and force providers opportunities to capitalize on technologies that are at a relatively high level of technical maturity and to rapidly develop and field-test promising new proof-of-principle prototypes that can have immediate impact on military operations. QRF initiatives typically deliver a prototype application within 12 months of being funded. The QRF Program focuses on projects that have the potential to address conventional, disruptive, catastrophic and irregular threats. More specifically, initiatives that serve to maintain a technical advantage over potential adversaries and reduce technical risk barriers in the following interest areas: counter anti-access and area denial capabilities; base protection; electromagnetic bandwidth and spectrum enhancement; persistent intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; newly emerging national threats; directed energy capabilities; low-cost precision engagement capabilities; unmanned and robotic systems; counter weapons of mass destruction capabilities; and, counter-electronic warfare technologies. In FY 2016 and FY 2017, the QRF Program will continue to identify and fund new projects and prototypes that respond to critical operational needs and emerging threats. Current and future efforts that show significant effectiveness can be leveraged by additional investments in order to accelerate transition to operational forces. Success stories and significant transitions of note for FY 2015 include: •Morning Express: This project to develop countermeasures to electronic systems to protect forces and infrastructure from attack transitioned to the joint Air-Sea Battle office following demonstrations of the prototype systems and execution of power studies, technical analyses, thermal assessments and antenna isolation analysis. •Square Dance Collaboration on Sentient-R: This project created a single integrated Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) environment to provide operational users from U.S. and Commonwealth nations access to MDA sensitive compartmented information (SCI) data. Sentient-R established web-based access to the leading Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Research & Development (R&D) system. Through data sharing, partners are able to rapidly collaborate, develop, share, and test new ISR capabilities across operational environments. Training, operating manuals, and accreditation on the network were also provided. •U.S. and Australian Enclave Moving Target Cyber Collaboration Experiment: Aimed at developing a network protect and defend capability demonstrating enclave resiliency during cyber events, this project demonstrated a shadow network for covert information sharing between U.S. and Australian Defense Department cyber operations. The ability to detect suspicious/malicious activity allowed analysts to assess activity without adversary awareness while operating through a cyber event was demonstrated via an experiment on unclassified networks. This capability transitioned to the U.S. Navy (USN) Automated Digital Network System (ADNS) Program Office. •Pacific Pilot: The Pacific Pilot project integrated network technologies and demonstrated a net-centric approach to bi-directional dissemination of command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data to find, track and fix threats supporting U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy and U. S. Special Operations Forces’ tactical communications. The capability was transitioned to U.S. Navy and U. S. Air Force program offices. •Global Positioning System (GPS) Urban Environment Analysis Tool: This project developed and validated a tool to analyze different ways to augment GPS in a dense urban environment, which can be used to inform investment decisions and ultimately warfighter use of various GPS augmentations. Following a test of the tool against test data from New York City, the project was transitioned to the U.S Army Product Director for Positioning, Navigation and Timing. •Project 77: This project developed a target surrogate, conducted a data collection, and provided analyses to establish the feasibility of a new synthetic aperture radar mode. The metric is intended for automatic detection without operator-in-the-loop to support wide area surveillance. The Project 77 products were inserted into a classified program. •Project White: Project White assessed the viability of laser technology as a possible countermeasure to enemy sensors and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems. Effects testing was executed at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Project White transitioned into the Navy Solid State Laser Technology Maturation (SSL-TM) program.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- P826_0603826D8Z_3_0400_PB_2017
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