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Strategy for Unmanned Maritime Systems

4 September 2014

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Presented to: Defense Innovation Day Panel

Dr. Megan Cramer

Science & Technology Director

PEO LCS

• Concept of operations for unmanned maritime systems (UMS)

continues to envision systems that are multi-mission, re-

configurable, and capable of acceptable performance over a

wide range of environmental and contextual variability.

• Key enablers for these concepts of operation are:

– Autonomy module which can execute different mission directives

– Mission payload consisting of re-configurable sensor or effector suites

• Modularity in mission payloads enables affordability, flexibility (i.e.,

more capability with future platforms), and scalability (i.e., force

multiplication).

– As the maritime platforms become more stable in their design (e.g.

unmanned surface vehicles, unmanned underwater vehicles) future

developments are able to focus on more capable sensors and more robust

autonomy algorithms.

• To respond to Fleet needs, given an evolving threat, programs will

want to interchange the latest sensor or a new and improved

algorithm in a cost effective and efficient manner.

Overview


Unmanned Maritime System Roadmap

Policy

Organization

Technical

User

Business

Autonomy

Manual

Focus on how to create building blocks

towards enabling an autonomous and modular

capability for Unmanned Maritime Systems.

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• Enable Maritime Autonomy & Modularity through focus on:

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Policy

Organization

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Outline

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User-Driven Approach Needed

• Capability needs should drive technology development – Many communities are potentially beneficiaries of

UMS Autonomous Systems

• Surface and Submarine mission areas

– Manned/Unmanned Collaboration

– Platform integration

• Mine Countermeasures (MCM) mission

– Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs)

– Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUVs)

• Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) mission

• Offensive missions

• User Operational Evaluation System (UOES) approach recommended– Enables user buy-in and incremental improvements

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UUV Mission

Demonstration

Tests

Planning &

Evaluation



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Policy

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Defining a UMS Reference Architecture

• Goal to enable efficient and cost effective technology insertion in order to better support UMS mission area capability needs, particularly with respect to pacing the threat and towards provision of an autonomy capability.

• Unmanned Maritime System (UMS) Reference Architecture Working Group established to work towards this goal.

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Major

Interfaces


• Enable Maritime Autonomy & Modularly through focus on:

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Policy

Organization

User

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Business


The Business Challenge

• Contracting approach that enables Rapid Technology Insertion (RTI)– Ability to rapidly:

1. Identify mature technology solutions to meet emergent operational needs,

2. Assess and verify maturity of technology solutions,

3. Integrate/Fleet Experimentation, and

4. Acquire/Procure and Field multiple units, quickly.

– Sustain business & innovation competition throughout the above steps

– Execute process quickly to satisfy Fleet demand for rapid solutions

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Why is this a Challenge?

Typically, there is a break between the assessment of technologies and then the acquisition/procurement of

that technology.

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Identify

NeedSolicit

Assess

Potential

Solutions

BREAK Compete or Sole Source

Acquire/Procure

May not get the

desired solution

that was assessed

Rigorous

justification

process

Increased Time

Assessment

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Rapid Technology Insertion (RTI) Approach

• In consultation with Navy contracting leadership, Rapid Technology Insertion (RTI) approach developed to marry the two processes

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Applicable

for Mature

Technologies

Identify

NeedSolicit

Assess

Potential

Solutions

At Sea

Integration/

Fleet Experimentation

Procure

Negotiated Options

• Options negotiated in advance

• Evaluation criteria established in advanced

• Procurement contract negotiated in advance

Standard Solicitation Package

Section C (SOW) tailored to Topic Description

Section L/M (Evaluation Criteria) tailored to Topic

Five Elements:

1. Context

2. Objectives

3. Necessary

Conditions

4. Measures

5. Standards

Evaluation Criteria:

1. Mature

Technology?

(Go/No Go)

2. Technical Criteria

3. Life Cycle Criteria

4. Past Performance

5. Cost

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Policy

Organization

User

Outline

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Many UMS Stakeholders

• PEO LCS

• ONR

• OSD (AT&L)

• OPNAV (N2/N6, N95, N96, N97)

• NAVSEA HQ (NAVSEA 073, PMS 340,

PMS 408)

• NAVSEA (NUWC, NSWC and other

programs when relevant)

• SPAWAR (SSC PAC, SSC LANT)

• NAVAIR

• PEO U&W

• PEO C4I (PMW760, PMW770)

• PEO SUBS (PMS 394, PMS 485)

• NMO

• CFFC

• DEVERON 5

• NAVO

• NMAWC

• NOMWC

• NRL

• DARPA

• Naval Postgraduate School

• CRUSER

• NOAA

• Dept of Energy – Sandia National Lab

• National Defense Industry Association (NDIA)

• Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems

International (AUVSI)

• Industry/Academia/Not-for-Profits

• COMSUBFOR

• COMSUBLANT

• COMSUBPAC

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Policy Needed for UMS to Drive Change

• Many disparate systems in the Unmanned Maritime Systems community– Policy can encourage Reference Architecture implementation, including language

in contracts

• Current policies dictate JAUS over-the-air to enable standards-based communications to the UMS, and UCS-based control systems to enable an open architecture

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Post Mission

Analysis

USV

Operator

Display

USV/UUV Mission Demonstration TestsUSV/UISS

NOMWC Operations


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“A hiatus exists between the inventor who knows what they could invent… if they only knew what was wanted… and the soldiers who knew, or ought to know, what they want and would ask for it… if they only knew how much science could do for them. You have never really bridged that gap yet.”

- Winston Churchill, The Great War, Vol. 4

• Autonomy solutions are within reach from a technology

perspective. The challenge is comprised of the building

blocks that are essential for these technologies to

succeed in order to meet Fleet capability needs.

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User

Technical Business

Summary


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