FLEET FORCE PROTECTION AND DEFENSE AGAINST UNDERSEA THREATS
Abstract
Fleet Force Protection and Defense against Undersea Threats efforts include applied research for complementary sensor and processing technologies for platform protection and shipboard technologies to increase the survivability of surface ship and submarine platforms against torpedo threats and to develop the capability to interdict underwater asymmetric threats to ships and infrastructure in harbors. Current small platforms (both surface and airborne) have little to no situational awareness (SA) or self-protection against air, surface, and asymmetric threats. A goal of this activity is to provide these platforms with effective self-protection. The technology areas specific to platform protection will develop individual, multispectral electro-optical (EO), infrared (IR), radio frequency (RF), electro-magnetic (EM), visual and acoustic or chemical sensors/biosensors and associated processing. To defend platforms from current and advanced threats in at-sea littoral environments and in port, these technologies must improve multispectral detection and distribution of specific threat information. Another goal of this activity is to develop a torpedo defense capability to fill Sea Shield Warfighting Capability Gap/Enabling Capability: Platform Defense against Undersea Threats, including Four Torpedo Salvo Defense. This provides a capability to prevent any of the torpedoes, in up to four-torpedo salvos fired at high value units, from hitting those units. This activity supports the Fleet and Force Protection FNC and includes support to Sea Shield and Sea Strike Pillars and FNC Enabling Capabilities for: Aircraft Integrated Self-protection Suite; Fortified Position Security; Advanced Electronic Sensor Systems for Missile Defense; and Shipboard Force Protection in Port and Restricted Waters - Detection and Classification. This activity supports the development of technologies that aid the helicopter pilot when operating in degraded visual cue environments (brown-out). FY 2013 funding decrease is due to completion of the STK-FY09-07 FNC for Helicopter Low-Level Operations (HELO). The decrease of funding from FY 2012 to FY 2013 is the result of the transfer of resources from this R2 activity to new FNC R2 activities titled Sea Strike and Sea Shield. Efforts in these R2 activities have been continued from FY 2012 to FY 2013 into new R2 activities to support all FNC program EC Investments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2014
- Source ID
- dd3982a70899f82617242c32dbd1d724