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From page 7... ... s The Coast Guard fulfills these diverse missions in a maritime domain that encompasses more than 100,000 miles of coastline and inland waterways and the largest Exclusive Economic Zone in the world, covering some 4.5 million square miles of sea from Puerto Rico to Guam and from the Arctic Circle to American Samoa, south of the equator.1 The Coast Guard deploys about 120 cutters,2 200 aircraft,3 and several hundred smaller vessels and special purpose craft4 and a force of about 41,000 active duty personnel, 7,000 reservists, 31,000 auxiliary members, and 8,500 full-time civilian employees.5 Except for a small number of aerial systems -- further described in Chapter 4 -- that expand the surveillance range of some cutters, all Coast Guard vessels and aircraft are manned. In contrast, during the past two decades and more, the U.S. Read the entire page →
From page 8... ... All of these organizations have expanded use of these systems as their capabilities, commercial availability, reliability, and affordability have grown. In comparison to the other military services, and even some civilian agencies and private industries, the Coast Guard's adoption of UxSs has been slow and ad hoc, but the opportunity remains to deploy them in a more concerted and strategic manner to add new capabilities and strengthen existing ones with less risk to personnel and traditional assets. Read the entire page →
From page 9... ... In commissioning this study to respond to this legislative request, the Coast Guard and the National Academies negotiated the following more detailed Statement of Task: An ad hoc committee will identify, examine, and make recommenda tions on key considerations to guide the Coast Guard's priorities for devel oping, testing, and deploying unmanned technologies for maritime domain awareness applications. Specific known or anticipated considerations for these new technologies are: • a cquisition, operations, and maintenance costs; • s ervice life, reliability, and versatility; • r eadiness for testing and/or deployment; • i nfrastructure requirements for beyond line of sight control of re motely controlled systems and autonomous system data transmission/ collection/analysis/storage; • bility to aid the Coast Guard in pursuing its missions at lower a cost and deploying its vessels, aircraft, equipment, and personnel more efficiently and effectively; • bility to create new mission related capabilities, such as by in a creasing persistence of effort and expanding the scope and range of maritime domain awareness; and, • perational and regulatory challenges when used in domestic and o international airspace and waters. Read the entire page →
From page 10... ... Thus, while recognizing that certain Coast Guard missions such as search and rescue, reconnaissance to support law enforcement, and oil spill response, can be asset intensive for maintaining necessary and persistent levels of maritime domain awareness, the committee decided that the potential for aerial, surface, and underwater UxSs must be considered in a broader context across all missions, particularly because the Coast Guard places a heavy emphasis on having assets that can be used efficiently and effectively in a diverse set of missions. Read the entire page →
From page 11... ... Therefore, the committee sought to understand how the Coast Guard's pursuit of UxSs may be affected by its institutional, procedural, cultural, and legal contexts, all of which will bear on its ability to exploit the promise of UxSs. To obtain a better understanding these contexts, as well as the kinds of unmanned technologies and systems that are being deployed by the Coast Guard and that are candidates for use, the committee scheduled numerous briefings with speakers from industry, academia, and numerous government agencies to gather information on existing and planned uses of different kinds of unmanned technologies, cybersecurity issues, accommodating organizational structures, and system operational and scalability 9 The Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Read the entire page →
From page 12... ... • Chapter 3 provides context about UxSs innovation by describ ing the state of practice, what is on the horizon, and what tech nologies might change current practice. Specifically, the chapter describes vehicle and payload technology -- with a 5-year horizon -- revolutionary technology, evolutionary technology, the pace of change, platform versus payload approaches, architectural con structs to allow for change, and other issues such as cybersecurity and dependability. Read the entire page →

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... s The Coast Guard fulfills these diverse missions in a maritime domain that encompasses more than 100,000 miles of coastline and inland waterways and the largest Exclusive Economic Zone in the world, covering some 4.5 million square miles of sea from Puerto Rico to Guam and from the Arctic Circle to American Samoa, south of the equator.1 The Coast Guard deploys about 120 cutters,2 200 aircraft,3 and several hundred smaller vessels and special purpose craft4 and a force of about 41,000 active duty personnel, 7,000 reservists, 31,000 auxiliary members, and 8,500 full-time civilian employees.5 Except for a small number of aerial systems -- further described in Chapter 4 -- that expand the surveillance range of some cutters, all Coast Guard vessels and aircraft are manned. In contrast, during the past two decades and more, the U.S.

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... All of these organizations have expanded use of these systems as their capabilities, commercial availability, reliability, and affordability have grown. In comparison to the other military services, and even some civilian agencies and private industries, the Coast Guard's adoption of UxSs has been slow and ad hoc, but the opportunity remains to deploy them in a more concerted and strategic manner to add new capabilities and strengthen existing ones with less risk to personnel and traditional assets.

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From page 9...

... In commissioning this study to respond to this legislative request, the Coast Guard and the National Academies negotiated the following more detailed Statement of Task: An ad hoc committee will identify, examine, and make recommenda tions on key considerations to guide the Coast Guard's priorities for devel oping, testing, and deploying unmanned technologies for maritime domain awareness applications. Specific known or anticipated considerations for these new technologies are: • a cquisition, operations, and maintenance costs; • s ervice life, reliability, and versatility; • r eadiness for testing and/or deployment; • i nfrastructure requirements for beyond line of sight control of re motely controlled systems and autonomous system data transmission/ collection/analysis/storage; • bility to aid the Coast Guard in pursuing its missions at lower a cost and deploying its vessels, aircraft, equipment, and personnel more efficiently and effectively; • bility to create new mission related capabilities, such as by in a creasing persistence of effort and expanding the scope and range of maritime domain awareness; and, • perational and regulatory challenges when used in domestic and o international airspace and waters.

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From page 10...

... Thus, while recognizing that certain Coast Guard missions such as search and rescue, reconnaissance to support law enforcement, and oil spill response, can be asset intensive for maintaining necessary and persistent levels of maritime domain awareness, the committee decided that the potential for aerial, surface, and underwater UxSs must be considered in a broader context across all missions, particularly because the Coast Guard places a heavy emphasis on having assets that can be used efficiently and effectively in a diverse set of missions.

Read the entire page →

From page 11...

... Therefore, the committee sought to understand how the Coast Guard's pursuit of UxSs may be affected by its institutional, procedural, cultural, and legal contexts, all of which will bear on its ability to exploit the promise of UxSs. To obtain a better understanding these contexts, as well as the kinds of unmanned technologies and systems that are being deployed by the Coast Guard and that are candidates for use, the committee scheduled numerous briefings with speakers from industry, academia, and numerous government agencies to gather information on existing and planned uses of different kinds of unmanned technologies, cybersecurity issues, accommodating organizational structures, and system operational and scalability 9 The Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI)

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... • Chapter 3 provides context about UxSs innovation by describ ing the state of practice, what is on the horizon, and what tech nologies might change current practice. Specifically, the chapter describes vehicle and payload technology -- with a 5-year horizon -- revolutionary technology, evolutionary technology, the pace of change, platform versus payload approaches, architectural con structs to allow for change, and other issues such as cybersecurity and dependability.

Read the entire page →

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1 Introduction Pages 7-12

1 Introduction
Pages 7-12