Identification of Promising Naval Aviation Science and Technology Opportunities (2006) / Chapter Skim
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4 Science and Technology Planning for Naval Aviation
4 Science and Technology Planning for Naval Aviation
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ONR's S&T activities related to a systems-level area are not concentrated in a single organiza 1See Naval Studies Board, National Research Council, 2001, 2001 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research's Aircraft Technology Program, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.; and Naval Studies Board, National Research Council, 2002, 2002 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research's Air and Surface Weapons Technology Program, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PLANNING FOR NAVAL AVIATION 59 tion but rather are conducted within several departments. ONR is not organizationally structured along war-fighting functional areas, such as naval aviation, surface ship warfare, or weapons systems, but according to technical discipline such as electronics, materials, or human systems.
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60 IDENTIFICATION OF PROMISING NAVAL AVIATION S&T OPPORTUNITIES FIGURE 4.1 Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) : Part of the AFRL culture.
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This growing commonality provides opportunities for high-payoff S&T if it is focused correctly on the fewer aircraft types. Similarly, aviation weaponry and information management are increasingly standardized in the Navy and the Marine Corps and even across DOD.
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Sea basing for landed Marines presents new opportunities for S&T to enable successful implementation of this concept. MANAGING S&T USING THE PORTFOLIO APPROACH While the committee recognizes that managing S&T within a portfolio enviroment is difficult, it can be done.
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MANAGING PROGRAMS IN AN S&T PORTFOLIO For most or all of the near-term naval aviation technology needs, 6.3 programs are already in place with road maps, and the primary issues to be resolved are their technology readiness, funding gaps, and technology transition paths. In the Navy it appears that most of these programs fall in the FNC categories, and the planning and process for prioritization have been developed.
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and the congressionally mandated programs that ONR typically executes. Integration of open-competition funding into the naval aviation S&T plan would be a natural by-product of developing the systems engineering approach described above and recommended in earlier reports.5 ONR should build in periodic internal and external review of its entire S&T plan, organized as a comprehensive review across all ONR codes and including the core NRL programs.
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It is essential that the Navy and the Marine Corps use processes like the NCDP and apply them to the new war-fighting operations envisioned in Naval Power 21. The Strategic Studies Group XXIII, which reports directly to the Chief of Naval Operations and has responsibility for generating revolutionary concepts for future naval war fighting, has recognized this process need and (in its report entitled Global Maritime Fight .
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and regular milestones that can be updated, and it should be keyed to the annual fiscal cycle. Since developing a naval aviation strategic S&T plan will be a new endeavor for ONR, the committee offers this outline as a guide: 1.
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d. Provide ONR codes with the ability to do searches and sorts.
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Congressional add-ons are not a measure of success for ONR, but rather are a net loss of discretionary S&T budget and create a significant distraction from the main Navy mission focus with programs that rarely make their way into the fleet. If ONR develops a naval aviation strategic S&T plan, congressional staffs could better funnel constituent desires into support for this plan.
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69 $) (millions Element Percentage Change 31 43 15 32 37 36 29 23 17 43 29 35 59 Program 2005 by FY 99 92 96 82 60 64 61 48 64 27 44 58 16 S&T Navy Research.
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989 Chemical Weapons Detection for UAV 1,384 Hybrid Lidar-Radar 1,684 Ultra Short Pulse Laser Micromachining 1,214 1,384 High-Efficiency Piezoelectric Crystals 1,668 2,076 Mini High-Definition Digital Camera 952 Panoramic Night-Imaging System 3,240 Pulse Detonation Engine 1,003 Advanced Multifunction Receiver System 1,625 Low-Cost Fused Remote Sensors 954 Zlost Cost SWARM UAV 2,380 Millimeter Wave Infrared Imaging 1,907 SAR for All-Weather Targeting 6,712 Real-World Immersive Imaging 1,907 Hybrid Fiber Optic Wireless System 952 Integrated Biological Warfare Technology Platform 3,813 5,092 3,500 Interrogator High-Speed Retro Reflector Communications 1,627 1,978 2,000
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Current naval aviation S&T is "opportunity" driven, rather than "requirements gap" driven. There is no process to create a vision or strategies and no apparent connection between S&T investments and future naval aviation goals.
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The Commander, Naval Air Systems Command, is the current chair of the JACG, and the committee understands that he will be reactivating the JACG's coordination of aviation S&T plans among its members. · The committee recommends that ONR use a systems approach in the planning and development of future naval aviation S&T.
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· The Chief of Naval Research should establish a single point of responsibility for the development of a naval aviation strategic S&T plan at ONR. This responsibility must include both budget and direction-setting authority, even though the technology development will occur in several different organizations.
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