{"id":18862,"date":"2016-07-26T16:11:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T16:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2016\/07\/26\/navy-taking-domain-agnostic-approach-to-unmanned-systems\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:02:01","slug":"navy-taking-domain-agnostic-approach-to-unmanned-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/unmanned\/uas\/2016\/07\/26\/navy-taking-domain-agnostic-approach-to-unmanned-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy taking domain-agnostic approach to unmanned systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Navy is\u00a0<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">has really gone all in on unmanned systems <\/span>taking a domain-agnostic approach on unmanned systems and is even creating an undersecretary position for unmanned systems and an unmanned warfare systems directorate (N99) within the Navy Headquarters staff. The chief of naval research expressed similar sentiments recently to the effect that naval forces could develop simultaneous cross-domain swarms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I want an [unmanned undersea vehicle], [unmanned surface vehicle] and [an unmanned aerial vehicle] swarming together,&#8221; said Rear Admiral Mat Winter, Chief of Naval Research, <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">said <\/span>at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on July 22. &#8220;We want to understand is that technically feasible?\u00a0The answer to that is yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To get there, Winter described a series of demonstrations \u2014\u00a0both upcoming and in the recent past \u2014\u00a0that have tested swarming technologies. Swarming technology\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the act of overwhelming a target with a mass of vehicles,\u00a0in any domain \u2014 <span class=\"rte rte-comment\">has been a concept conceived<\/span>\u00a0aims to help solve the anti-access area denial environments developed by adversaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One such demonstrator program the Navy is testing is the Low Cost Unmanned Swarming Technology, or LOCUST. &#8220;My LOCUST program is truly maturing &#8230; the algorithms to be able to maneuver individual vehicles in a complete concert, single organism type of domain and be able to break off and send and go do something, engage, sense, what have you, come back,&#8221; Winter told reporters following his remarks. &#8220;While meanwhile the communications, not only between, but then out because this is a capability, it&#8217;s a sensor, it&#8217;s a battlespace capability that we want to be able to utilize for overwhelming adversaries RF spectrum but also be able to provide communication and information back to our commanders.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These algorithms that are developed<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">,<\/span> can be applied across all the Navy\u2019s operational domains of warfare, he said.\u00a0&#8220;The UAV, which is just a USB stick, that\u2019s not the science. The science is the intelligent algorithms and the ability to communicate, sense and avoid, regroup and separate.\u00a0And that is domain-agnostic,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It\u2019s for an application, but we have to continue to look how we can go across all domains.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We need to get out of this paradigm of domain<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">.<\/span>\u00a0that only aviators can talk about unmanned aviation systems. And that only submariners can talk about things that dwell underneath the water,&#8221; Frank Kelley, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for unmanned systems, said at the Sea-Air-Space conference on May 17. The Navy\u2019s director of unmanned warfare systems, OPNAV N-99, Rear Adm. Robert Girrier, said the service is looking to a systems of systems approach that doesn\u2019t just focus on one domain but rather a &#8220;general connectedness&#8221; approach. This connectedness, &#8220;accessing one domain and using it to help unlock another,&#8221; can help the service start thinking in the larger framework of unlocking contested areas, he said at Sea-Air-Space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winter noted surface demonstrations that are testing these concepts in September. In fact, the Navy conducted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/story\/military-tech\/uas\/2016\/04\/21\/swarming-unmanned-surface-vessels\/83290120\/\">demonstration in 2014 on the James River<\/a> that saw several surface vessels swarm a potentially threatening maritime asset. Winter said future concepts following these demonstrations will include multiple swarming boats to establish a perimeter, some breaking off to engage an adversary, then coming back to the formation \u2014 all with a human in the loop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel, or ACTUV, recently redubbed Sea Hunter, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/story\/military-tech\/uas\/2016\/04\/21\/swarming-unmanned-surface-vessels\/83290120\/\">christened<\/a> this spring.\u00a0Winter told reporters following his remarks that ACTUV is still shared between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and ONR, though DARPA will be looking to transfer it to the service soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the next steps is to apply these algorithms, technologies and concepts to the undersea domain with UUVs, which is more difficult<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">a bit harder<\/span> than on the surface or in the air. &#8220;We understand the topography well enough but we\u2019re demonstrating, [and it\u2019s] still [in] experimentation,&#8221; Winter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>A spokesperson for the Office of Naval Research said current efforts are only focused on UAV and USV swarming, though<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">,<\/span> with the maturity of domain-agnostic swarm software &#8220;it will be easier to integrate into UUVs.&#8221;\u00a0They also clarified that ONR is only tasked with developing capabilities adding deployment, and integration of capabilities will be determined by higher levels. &#8220;But swarm behavior offers the same advantages to undersea vehicles as it does to swarms in other domains.\u00a0There are many possible uses for swarms, but in general, by synchronizing the behavior of autonomous unmanned vehicles, we facilitate complex missions and disaggregate risk,&#8221; they said in an email to C4ISRNET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winter said the Navy&#8217;s Large Diameter Unmanned Undersea Vehicle, or LDUUV, will conduct a demonstration early next year traveling underwater from San Diego to San Francisco testing open ocean navigation and sense-and-avoid technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When will we bring the LDUUV, USV and the UAVs together, that\u2019s not on a chart,&#8221; Winter said, but he said\u00a0<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">did say<\/span> the community needs to &#8220;make sure we continue to mature those domains and get that out to prototyping.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the challenge<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">s<\/span> in this space is<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">are<\/span> not merely scientific, but what Winter called the business of science. 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An ONR spokesperson elaborated further, telling C4ISRNET via email that the force has to consider undersea refueling and communications stations as UUVs are integrated into long-duration operations. &#8220;So rather than thinking of an interstate highway system, think of the system of gas stations, restaurants, and telephones that grew alongside the highway to support traffic,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Secretary of Defense Ash Carter <a href=\"https:\/\/defensesystems.com\/articles\/2016\/02\/04\/dod-navy-uuv-investments.aspx\">told<\/a> sailors in February the department plans to invest $600 million in unmanned undersea technology over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The biggest thing that we like to emphasize is that unmanned systems are going to fundamentally change the way the Department of the Navy operates in the future,&#8221; Kelley said at Sea-Air-Space in 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