Joint Maritime Planning
Thursday 11th November 2010, 1300hrs–1430hrs
Chaired by Bob Nugent An Approach to Undersea Distributed Netted Systems (UDNS) Dr. Victor Évora, Naval Undersea Warfare Center (Division Newport), United States The proliferation of technologies and weapons, such as submarines and anti-ship cruise missiles has increased the access risk to U.S. naval forces. Meanwhile, the current force structure is challenged to provide the necessary increased number of platforms in an environment where shipbuilding costs continue to grow. UDNS is a military concept envisioned to be able to provide the necessary warfighting advantage in this era of shrinking budgets. UDNS is a complex interacting group of warfighters, platforms, devices, command and control and influencer systems that responds to various degrees of control to achieve a commander’s intent in a coherent, aggregate manner. Situational awareness is thus key to UDNS. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) has been involved with several UDNS initiatives over the past few years. More recently, NUWC has embarked on a strategic initiative whose objective is to assist in developing and evolving the Navy’s strategic approach to advance distributed Undersea Warfare (USW). By doing so, NUWC will exercise leadership in innovation, engineering, evaluation/assessment, transition and stewardship for the Navy’s next generation distributed USW. The technical approach follows a baseline system engineering approach where requirements are identified, alternatives analyzed, and solutions defined, developed and tested. In this presentation, the key thrust areas to refine and mature UDNS concepts will be discussed in detail. They include Warfighter/Stakeholder Engagement, Concept Generation/Development, Warfighting Analysis & Assessment, Building Blocks/Augmentation and Distributed Simulation. Ship Identification through AIS Captain Robert Tremlett, exactEarth, United Kingdom This paper will investigate the evolution of AIS enabling ships to identify themselves for the purpose of collision avoidance and VTS, to now where AIS base stations are used for ship routing and environmental monitoring. requiring monitoring of the busy coastal areas of the world, as well as port and waterway approaches. The paper will then outline the results of our test satellite, NTS which has been orbiting the earth for the past two years, and introduce our exactAIS service that will commence in 2010 using polar orbiting microsatellites. Thus providing the ability to pick up AIS transmission of ships globally. The paper will then show how S-AIS will complement coastal AIS resulting in a Global AIS Solution, providing affordable possibility for monitoring remote coastline, inland waterways and large ocean areas, providing an integrated Global AIS Solution. Finally it will show how S-AIS will be a key enabling technology for e-navigation. Global Warfare Coordination: Possible Solution for the Implementation of the Functionality in New Generation Multi Mission Frigates Mrs Manuela Nardini, Selex Sistemi Integrati, Italy The Global Warfare Coordination is the capability of a Naval Combat System to coordinate defence and react against heterogeneous threats of a global scenario, which stimulates contemporary system’s warfare actions in different engagement domains: Air, Surface, Subsurface and Land. The necessity to counteract the threats of a Global Warfare scenario forces the simultaneous use of weapon systems, typically allocated to different warfare domains, in a new one: the Global Warfare domain. GW coordination is based on defence and attack functions that the Combat System is able to perform in each single domain, as far as operator roles that are responsible for planned engagements execution. At the end of the functional analysis phase all possible “critical” events are addressed, where the adjective critical is referred to all events that have to be analysed from the point of view of engagement interferences in time, space and frequency domains.
Starting from the synoptic of all interference events, the possible technical solutions for GW coordination have been identified with the aim to solve interference criticalities and to coordinate incompatible engagement events in a GW scenario. The best solution is the result of the trade off between a Global Threat Evaluation Weapon Assignment algorithm and the possibility to manage an optimum platform recommended manoeuvre, where all contributions, coming from different requests, are merged, with suitable weights, depending on the current operative scenario.
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Dr Marcello Zannini
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