Review of ONR's Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicles Program (2000) / Chapter Skim
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3 Integration with Other Related Department of the Navy and Department of Defense Efforts
3 Integration with Other Related Department of the Navy and Department of Defense Efforts
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and uninhabited combat air vehicles (UCAVs) programs so that it could assess the ONR UAV/UCAV program with respect to its relevance for meeting naval priorities, its cost and time scale, duplication of effort, and scientific and technical quality.
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However, toward the end of the decade a more focused UAV effort developed. Responsibility for determining and addressing requirements for the Navy UAV program as a single Navy point of contact and for directing programming and budgeting for all Naval UAV programs was assigned to the Aviation Systems (N854)
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into the Navy UAV community. The UCAV-N program will have a big impact on the Navy's future UAV programs, providing a strong and well-funded focus for advanced concepts.
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These issues include the following: the role, potential, and manifestations of autonomy technology in future UAV systems; the many communication/networking and sensor fusion issues arising from the UAV-to-UAV cooperative behavior that is inherent in the full realization of network-centric concepts; and, finally, the laudable attempt to create UAV/ UCAV technology roadmaps to guide the S&T investments. While all the UAV/UCAV programs and plans address technology from the point of view of its existence and maturity, none try to plan for driving the technology in the right direction, as was the goal of ONR 351's effort.
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However, avionics now account for 30 to 40 percent of the development cost of a new tactical aircraft, and a significant portion of the avionics development cost is accounted for by the software. While UCAV avionics requirements are different from those of crowed vehicles (autonomous functions replace humanmachine interfaces, for example)
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Autonomy The Department of the Navy has signalled that it recognizes the potential importance of autonomous operations by establishing autonomous operations as an FNC. This FNC provides a focus for efforts to develop air, surface, and subsurface autonomous platforms that meet the need for extended, remote operations in high-risk settings.
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, in this concept, are military operations that exploit state-of-the-art information and networking technolo~v to integrate widely dispersed human decision makers. situational and targeting sen0 0~ 0 ~ ~ O O sors, forces, and weapons into a highly adaptive, comprehensive system to achieve unprecedented mission effectiveness.5 The Navy, in conjunction with the Marine Corps, is moving rapidly to implement NCO.
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The current leadership offered by the responsible Navy Department organizations seems to move slowly, envisions only relatively near-term scenarios, and is currently supporting independent multiple thrusts, as yet uncoordinated, without a clear unifying focus on the full potential of UAVs. · A Department of the Navy UAV/UCAV master plan is needed that is more comprehensive than the current Naval UAV ESG plan.
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