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Suggested Citation:"C Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2000. Review of ONR's Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicles Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9885.
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C

Acronyms and Abbreviations

ACTD

advanced concept technology demonstration

ATD

advanced technology demonstration

ATR

automatic target recognition

BAA

broad agency announcement

BDA

battle damage assessment

BM

battle management

CAP

combat air patrol

C4ISR

command, control, communications, computing, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance

C4ISRT

command, control, communications, computing, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting

CNO

Chief of Naval Operations

COTS

commercial off-the-shelf

DARO

Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office

DARPA

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DCGS

distributed common ground system

DOD

Department of Defense

DTS

Deployed Transit System

EO

electro-optical

ESG

Executive Steering Group

FNC

future naval capability

FLIR

forward-looking infrared

FWV

fixed-wing vehicle

Suggested Citation:"C Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2000. Review of ONR's Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicles Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9885.
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GPS

Global Positioning System

HAE

high-altitude endurance

IHPTET

integrated high-performance turbine engine technology

IPT

integrated product team

IR

infrared

LAN

local area network

MAE

medium altitude endurance

MASINT

measurement and signature intelligence

MCCDC

Marine Corps Combat Development Command

MCM

mine countermeasures

MRE

multirole endurance

MSTAR

Moving and Stationary Target Acquisition and Recognition (program)

MTI

moving-target indicator

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NAVAIR

Naval Air Systems Command

NCO

network-centric operations

NIMA

National Imagery and Mapping Agency

NRC

National Research Council

NRL

Naval Research Laboratory

NRO

National Reconnaissance Office

ONR

Office of Naval Research

OPNAV

Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

OSD

Office of the Secretary of Defense

P3I

preplanned product improvement

PEO (CU)

Program Executive Office for Cruise Missiles and UAVs

R&D

research and development

RECCE

reconnaissance

RF

radio frequency

RPV

remotely piloted vehicle

RSTA

reconnaissance, surveillance, targeting, and attack

RW

rotary wing

S&T

science and technology

SAR

synthetic aperture radar

SEAD

suppression of enemy air defense

TCS

Tactical Control Station

TDA

technology development approach

T&E

testing and evaluation

TES

Tactical Exploitation System (Army)

TOF

time of flight

TUAV

tactical uninhabited aerial vehicle

Suggested Citation:"C Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2000. Review of ONR's Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicles Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9885.
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UAV

unmanned aerial vehicle

UCAV

uninhabited combat air vehicle

UGV

unmanned ground vehicle

USAF

U.S. Air Force

VSTOL

vertical short takeoff and landing

VTOL

vertical takeoff and landing

VTUAV

vertical takeoff and landing tactical uninhabited air vehicle

WAN

wide area network

WPN

weapons procurement, Navy

Suggested Citation:"C Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2000. Review of ONR's Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicles Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9885.
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Suggested Citation:"C Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2000. Review of ONR's Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicles Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9885.
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Joint Vision 20101 addresses the need for achieving military dominance through the application of new operational concepts. For the Department of the Navy, future operational concepts will hinge on a continuance of forward yet unobtrusive presence and the capability to influence events ashore as required. This capability will be enabled by the development and insertion into the forces of new technologies for providing command, control, and surveillance; battlespace dominance; power projection; and force sustainment. For example, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently proven to be valuable operational platforms for providing tactical intelligence by surveillance of the battlefield. To support naval force objectives, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has established a research program within the Strike Technology Division (Code 351) of the Naval Expeditionary Warfare Science and Technology Department aimed at expanding the operational capabilities of UAVs to include not only surveillance and reconnaissance, but strike and logistics missions as well. This new class of autonomous vehicles, known as uninhabited combat air vehicles (UCAVs), is foreseen as being intelligent, recoverable, and highly maneuverable in support of future naval operations.

Review of ONR'S Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicles Program evaluates ONR's UCAV technology activities, including its vision documents and its science and technology roadmap (in areas of vehicle dynamics, communications, sensors, and autonomous agents) against criteria that would be selected by the committee, such as the relevance for meeting future naval priorities, the cost and time scale for its utilization, duplication of effort, and scientific and technical quality.

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