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Distribution Statement A. Approved for Public Release.

Unmanned Warfare Systems Vision and Mine Warfare

CAPT Pete Hudson Deputy for Rapid Development, Unmanned Warfare Systems

(OPNAV N99)

November 17, 2016


Unmanned Warfare Systems

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Coordinate and champion “all aspects of unmanned – in all domains – over, on and under the sea

and coming from the sea to operate on land” Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, April 2015

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Fleet, Naval Research, Academia, and Industry

• Identify warfighting gaps/requirements

• Prototype/demonstrate promising technology and provide interim capabilities

• Inform smarter and lower risk acquisition decisions

• Mature pre-Milestone B acquisition programs

Portfolio

• Unmanned Carrier Based MQ-25A Stingray

• Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle

(LDUUV)

• Advanced Undersea Prototyping (AUP)

• Common Control System (CCS)

• System Autonomy


Unmanned Contribution to Warfighting Distributed Maritime Operations

LBS-AUV

XLUUV LDUUV

Tern

ACTUV/ MDUSV

RHIB

CUSV

Mk 18

MQ-25A

Fire Scout ScanEagle

Triton BAMS-D

Sense Orient Decide Act Space Domain

Air Domain

Surface Domain

Undersea Domain

• Reduce risk to sailors,

mission, and force

• Increase awareness,

survivability, and lethality

• Bring capabilities to

currently inaccessible areas

• Increase system endurance

• Operate in contested areas

• Increase operational options

• Enable more clandestine

capabilities

• Increase capacity with

distributed network of UxS

• Faster decision making by

both humans and machines

• Reduce cost 3

Knifefish UUV


Integration and Interoperability

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Task Force Netted Navy (TF2N) • Allow for improved interoperability through organization, processes, and

personnel

• Recommended investments toward improving engineering environment

• Improving Navy workforce skills

Digital Warfare Office (DWO) • Lead initiatives to set requirements for interoperable systems

• Lead MBSE tool development

• Support workforce and software development efforts

• Increase use of software for prediction

• Use flexibility if DoD 5000 and JCIDS

Human Machine Teaming • Get more value out of data


Unmanned Systems Context

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Missions

Warfighting

Effects

Platforms

Vehicles

Payloads

Littoral Combat

Ship

Future Surface

Combatant

SEAWOLF

SSGN

ORP SSBN

SSN-X

AFSB

Ford Class

Aircraft Carrier

UAS/UAV

AUP

FMAUV

LDUUV

Cruise MSL

Triton

Kinetic Effects

Sensors

EMS

Decoys CONOPS

TTP

Months

ACTUV

MLP

LX(R)

MQ-8

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Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Strategy

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Military

Deception

Family of Systems

Small Medium Large Extra-Large

Core Technologies Endurance

Command, Control, Communications

Autonomy

Payloads/Sensors

Anti-Submarine/

Surface Warfare

Seabed Warfare Naval Special

Warfare

Mine Warfare

Electromagnetic

Maneuver Warfare

Near-Term & Future

Warfighting Needs

Concepts of Operation & Tactics, Techniques, Procedures

Maintain Undersea Superiority

Intelligence Surveillance

Reconnaissance


Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUV)

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RAVEN RQ-11 (CAT 1)

Current Future

Surface Mine Countermeasures (SMCM) UUV Knifefish

Littoral Battlespace Sensing – Glider (LBS-G)

LBS - Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (AUV) Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle

(XLUUV)

Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (LDUUV)

Mk 18 Mod 1

Mk 18 Mod 2

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Advanced Undersea Prototyping

ONR UUV Science & Technology

XLUUV

Remote Command & Control, Energy • Common control and autonomy of UUVs

• Aluminum combustion for UUV extended endurance

Vehicles, Propulsion, Navigation • (5) extra-large unmanned undersea vehicles (XLUUV)

• Amphibious ship / pier Launch & Recovery Equipment

• Commercial UUV CONOPS/TTP development

Explosive Payloads • Deployment of undersea weapons from XLUUV

• New C2 algorithms for advanced targeting

• Increased lethality for undersea and surface targets

Non-Lethal Payloads • Payloads launched from XLUUV to disrupt/degrade

adversary maritime capability

• Jamming, EO/IR, microwaves, other non-kinetic capabilities

CONOPS / TTP

Aluminum Combustor

Responsive to Pacific Fleet Emergent Operational Need to counter adversary A2/AD capabilities


LDUUV

• Long-endurance (10 days), Far forward, unmanned system launched & recovered from submarines & surface vessels to augment manned platforms

• Key attributes

– Open architecture to support incremental increase in capability

– Modular for multi-mission capability

– Persistent (energy capability & reliability) autonomous operations

– Host platform able to conduct primary mission between launch/recovery

• Provide critical data collection and persistent surveillance

– Intelligence Preparation of the Operational Environment (IPOE)

– Below Water Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (BWISR)


Common Control System

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Tomorrow Common autonomy,

control, communications Full interoperability

across systems, domains

Modular Architecture Multiple industry partners,

academia, & small businesses Building “apps” in the open

source, open architecture, library

Today Stove-piped

Control Solutions


Prototyping/Demonstration Projects

• Unmanned Undersea Vehicles

– Precision payload delivery*

– Extended endurance

– Recharge capability

– Navigation in denied environments

– Sea bottom target identification

– Acoustic decoy

• Unmanned Aircraft Systems

– Enhanced shipboard recovery*

– Software Reprogrammable*

Payload

– Electronic warfare*

– Confirmation of contacts

Source: www.km.kongsberg.com

Source: www.avinc.com

Source: U.S. Navy

Responsive to fleet warfighting needs

*FY16 “Quick Win” Projects


Looking ahead…

• Distributed Fleet Architecture

– Connectable and capable unmanned nodes

– Manned and unmanned teaming

– Key enabler for Distributed Maritime Operations

• Family of Unmanned Systems

– Group 5 MALE UAS

– Medium Displacement USV

– Extra-Large UUV

• Prototyping and Demonstration

– Address priority warfighting needs

– Set Based Design, Iterative Process

– High Velocity Learning

– Build fleet trust and confidence

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Maritime Mining

• Legacy systems remain in service – Submarine Launched Mobile Mine (SLMM)

– Being maintained with no planned upgrades

– Quickstike (QS) Aerial Delivered Mines – Receiving target detection device (TDD) upgrades – Several demonstrations of precision standoff delivery

capability

• Clandestine Delivered Mine (CDM) – SLMM warhead section repackaged for

unmanned delivery – Military Utility Assessment scheduled for

4QFY17 – Remote Control is in development and will be

integrated on CDM • Advanced mining

– Fleet demand signal is strong – Leveraging multiple efforts (ONR FNC,

rapid prototyping, etc.) to develop future program of record

– Envision a distributed, integrated network of undersea sensors and effectors

LEVERAGING EFFORTS TO DELIVER CAPABILITY


Questions/Discussion

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