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Force Level Warfare Systems |
Warfare Systems Analysis, Architecture, and Requirements - Includes the
capability to perform studies
and analyses to provide definition, requirements, and cost and affordability
assessment of warfare systems and force structures and their interoperability.
These functions are performed at the battle group, force and theater
levels, which includes joint and coalition forces. Included are formal
(Analysis of Alternatives (AOA) like) and quick
reaction special studies focused at the mission level. Integrally
supports the technical aspects of the Office of the
Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) Mission Capability Package (MCP)
and Integrated Warfare Assessment &
Requirements (IWAR) process. A significant portion of this core equity also provides
for the definition,
requirements, and metrics of Interoperability at the battle group, force, and
theater levels including joint and
coalition forces. Also, development of analysis tools including modeling and
simulations and technology
investigations.
Provides the technical foundation for the development of architectures,
requirements and options for future forces, new and upgraded weapons systems,
and evaluation of impacts resulting from variations in threat and scenarios Warfare
Systems Engineering, Integration, Test and Evaluation (T&E) and
Assessment - Provides the ability to conduct warfare systems integration
and integration assessment. This is conducted at the battle group,
force, and theater level and provides force and battle group interoperability
evaluation. It includes the development of mission level capabilities,
test, evaluation and assessment of advanced systems and upgrades,
and the capability to conduct and analyze battle group hardware-in-the-loop
and operational testing (e.g. Distributed Engineering Plant (DEP)
and Fleet Exercises (FLEETEXs)). Includes the development of joint
capabilities and limitations documentation and the fielding, operation,
and maintenance of resources required to collect data used in the
assessment process. Results in improved battle group interoperability.
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Ships and Ships Systems |
Ship Integration and Design - provides the capability to integrate multi-disciplinary
technologies and
systems into total ship designs and support analyses for surface ships, submarines,
combatant craft, U.S. Marine
Corps (USMC) and special warfare vehicles, and unmanned vehicles.
Integrates across capabilities to provide a total system capability,
technical depth and breadth, operational understanding, and a vision
for producing effective and affordable naval and maritime ships and
vehicles. Included are the engineering processes that cut across
the ship and craft designs including total ship or vehicle design
concepts, physics-based modeling and simulation, cost and warfighting
effectiveness, shipbuilding and manufacturing technologies, information
systems, acquisition engineering, and advanced logistic concepts
(e.g. JLOTS) and support systems. Supports the acquisition function
of NAVSEA, Program Executive Officers (PEOs) and Program Managers
(PMs), assures that the vehicle system is optimized across its subsystems,
supports the early stage systems engineering process (especially
pre-Milestone A), and provides support for AOAs and Cost and Warfighting
Effectiveness Tradeoffs. It has primary impact on the
execution capability for NAVSEA and the Warfare Centers to be smart
buyers, acceptance certification for
NAVSEA of design concepts proposed by industry, selection of high
payoff and affordable ship technologies and
systems to meet requirements, and to assure that systems are producible,
and supportable throughout the life cycle. Hull Forms & Propulsors -
Provides
the capability to conduct hydrodynamic research, development,
testing and evaluation for the US Navy and Maritime industries as required by
Congress. Includes facilities and
expertise to evaluate new concepts for vehicles and its propulsors, control surfaces
and control systems, and
propulsor interactions with the hull and the seaway environment. Also includes
shipboard instrumentation and full-scale test capabilities as an integral component.
Vehicles supported include surface ships, submarines, USMC and special warfare
vehicles, boats and craft, and unmanned vehicles. Encompasses the Navy’s
only technical capability for hydrodynamic performance assessment and integrated
development of surface, undersea, and amphibious vehicle hull forms and propulsors.
Ensures that the performance of each platform meets mission requirements for
mobility, controllability, sea keeping, and habitability. It has a primary impact
on the safety, efficiency and affordability of platform operations, and contributes
strongly to platform signature characteristics
Machinery Systems and Components - Provides full spectrum capability (facilities
and expertise) for research, development, design, test facilities, acquisition
support, in-service engineering (including alterations),
integrated logistic concepts, and life cycle support for Machinery Systems and
Components. Supports all Navy ship classes and seaborne vehicles – aircraft
carriers (CV class), surface combatants, auxiliaries, amphibious
ships and vehicles, mine warfare and countermeasures ships, submarines,
boats and craft including special warfare vehicles; and unmanned
vehicles). Includes: machinery systems design and integration, mechanical
and electrical power and propulsion systems; auxiliary machinery
(including heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) and
collective protection) systems; hull, deck and habitability machinery
(including underway replenishment (UNREP), and vehicle launch and
recovery systems) systems; machinery automation, controls, sensors
and network systems; alternative power sources; and sail and deployed
systems. Provides these capabilities throughout the full lifecycle
of individual ships or vehicles and across all ship or vehicle types.
This breadth and depth insures that lessons learned will be propagated
across all Navy ships or vehicles avoiding duplicative efforts and
mistakes in design, acquisition, construction and support of those
platforms. This core equity has a major impact on the performance,
maintenance, safety and reliability of operation, and the affordability
of the Navy ships and vehicles. It ensures that those vehicles meet
performance and mission requirements for: mobility in all sea states;
environmental compliance; habitability; and combat systems interfaces.
Structures and Materials - Provides the Navy with specialized expertise
for the full spectrum of research, development, design, testing,
acquisition support, and in-service engineering in the area of materials
and structures. Applies to all types of materials and structures
used in naval vehicles and their component systems, and results in
the development and advancement of fundamental science, processing
techniques, and fabrication methods. Support is provided for all
surface ships, submarines, USMC and special warfare vehicles, boats
and craft, and unmanned vehicles and their component systems. Focused
on addressing the material and structural problems peculiar to naval
vehicles such as very thick materials sections and large, complex
structures, complex load profiles, corrosive environments, smart
and multifunction applications, extended life times, and combinations
of those requirements, which are not common to other military and
civilian applications. Determines the safety and efficiency of operation,
and affordability of naval platforms and their signatures and survivability.
Contributes to the development of the technology, concepts, and procedures
that enable manufacture of Navy ships and submarines and their component
systems. Environmental Quality Systems -
Provides the specialized
expertise and facilities to design and engineer military mission
compatible, efficient, and cost effective shipboard environmental
systems, which minimize waste generation, eliminate the use of harmful
chemical compounds, and destroy or appropriately treat wastes on
board ship. Supports all Navy ships and craft, and related shore
activities. Provides systems that meet the unique requirements of
the warship environment (e.g. space, weight, stealth, noise, shock,
logistics, manning, etc.) while still complying with the high environmental
standards set forth in domestic and foreign laws and regulations.
Adapts and integrates the latest commercial and university developed
technologies and products into environmental systems for today’s ships and those of the future. Ensures that Navy forces and
activities can continue to perform their missions worldwide – without constraints
imposed by environmental laws/regulations. Includes the ability to conduct peacetime
transits of foreign territorial waters, and use of domestic and foreign port
facilities. Vulnerability and Survivability Systems - Provides full spectrum
capabilities for research, development, design, testing, acquisition support,
and in-service engineering to reduce vulnerability and improve survivability.
Platform products include: fire resistant and fire safe materials; damage control
(including fire and smoke) systems and equipment, armor concepts; collective
protection structural concepts and machinery systems; and ship control algorithms.
Personnel safety products include equipment for: fire safety; ballistic, nuclear,
biological, and chemical protection equipment and systems; and floatation and
survival-at-sea. Functions provided include: shock and live fire trials; survivability
and vulnerability analysis; weapons loading and effectiveness assessments; damage
stability analysis; damage control systems integration; and damage control training.
Supports all current and future Navy ships (including submarines, unmanned vehicles,
USMC and special warfare vehicles, and boats and craft), their component systems,
and their assigned personnel. The only Navy capability for ship vulnerability
and survivability, and is required by the Navy in order to comply with congressionally
mandated Live Fire Legislation. Ensures that Navy ships are safe to operate and
have the lowest vulnerability and highest survivability possible. It achieves
these goals by improving survivability against weapons, developing shock hardened,
damage tolerant hulls and equipment, improving damage control and the ability
to fight hurt, providing weight reduction, and enabling operation in shallow
water in order to meet the changing threat. Signature and Silencing Systems -
Provides full spectrum capabilities for research, development, design,
testing, acquisition support, and in-service engineering for signature reduction
and silencing. Signatures included are acoustic signatures, wake signatures;
and the full spectrum of electromagnetic signatures—magnetic, electric,
radar, infrared (IR), ultraviolet (UV), and optical. Functions and products include
development of silencing
requirements, silencing technologies, stealthy materials, and signature measurement
equipment and systems; model tests and full-scale Fleet trials. Supports all
Navy ship classes and seaborne vehicles – CVs, surface combatants, auxiliaries,
amphibious ships and vehicles, mine warfare and countermeasures ships, submarines,
boats and craft including special warfare vehicles; and unmanned vehicles. Is
the Navy’s single focused capability for signatures and silencing systems
for naval vehicles. Achieves signature reduction and control objectives by addressing
signatures at their source, reducing signatures before they are radiated, or
impeding the return of threat sensor generated energy to its source (echo mitigation).
Ensures all Navy ships have the lowest possible signatures that are cost effective
and compatible with the ship’s mission. Supports fleet units
with: measurement and characterization of active and passive signatures;
acquisition, reduction and analysis of ship signature data; development
and optimization of signature reducing materials and their installation;
identification and recommendation for correction of ship signature
or silencing deficiencies; development of operational concepts intended
to meet improved stealth requirements; and acquisition support for
procurement of cost effective signature control systems for submarine
and surface combatants.
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Surface Ship Combat Systems |
Air and Surface Surveillance and Detection Systems - Provides the
capability of providing life-cycle,
multi-disciplinary support for the Navy’s air and surface surveillance
and detection systems. Encompassing the
entire life-cycle from science and technology (S&T), concepts, development
through retirement. Research,
engineering design, systems engineering and integration, engineering maintenance,
and full spectrum logistics
support are applied. Supports Airborne and Surface Radar, High Vision and Electro-Optics
Capability, including
night vision, laser, low-light-level imaging, infrared (thermal), and highly
stabilized multi-sensors systems. Efforts
expended assure high levels of performance, reliability and training to attain
maximum capability and operability
in any environment. Combat Control Systems - Provides critical engineering, technical
oversight, integrated logistics support, and facilities to support the acquisition
and ownership for Combat Control Systems. Comprised of and supports the “control” element
of the “plan-detect-control-act” sequence and includes the various
systems and equipments used systems. Typical functions associated with Combat
Control Systems include sensor and track management, identification, combat air
patrol (CAP) control, weapon assignment and control, threat evaluation, display,
communications, kill assessment, and system readiness assessment and status.
The impact of this core equity is that the critical government capabilities and
the corporate knowledge base is applied to developing, adapting, and transitioning
new technologies and advanced capabilities to the fleet to meet new threats and
emerging needs in a timely manner. Engagement Systems - Provides the S&T,
design, development, manufacture, tactical, and integrated logistics support
(ILS) life-cycle support for the Navy’s Surface Warfare engagement systems.
Included are the engineering processes and expertise that contribute to the systems
engineering, test and evaluation of new concepts, modernizations, and upgrades,
and integration into the ship’s combat weapons systems.
Supports engagement
systems including missiles, launching and gun systems, simulators and trainers,
weapons system test, diagnostic and training equipment. The combination of specialized
expertise, unique highly classified threat and intelligence laboratories, and
secure working environments provide a total system capability with the essential
technical depth and operational understanding to support the current and future
fleet needs. Provides assurance that the these systems will possess the capability
to meet current and emerging threats, that the fleet will be provided the training
and support to operate and maintain the systems, and that technical assistance
will be available to solve complex fleet problems beyond the expertise of ships
force or waterfront technicians. Electronic Warfare - Provides the capability
to research, design, develop, acquire and provide life-cycle
support for the Navy’s Electronic Warfare systems. Encompasses and supports
all surface shipboard electronic
detection and guidance devices including electronic surveillance measures (ESM),
electronic countermeasures
(ECM) and electronic attack (EA). These assets are used against enemy forces
to prevent or decrease the
effectiveness of their efforts to use electronic detection and guidance devices
against friendly forces. Provides
essential knowledge, expertise, and equipments to maintain ships and systems
in an environment safe from enemy threats so that they can complete their mission
and functions. Combat System Engineering, Integration, T&E, and Assessment
- Provides for the overall engineering, integration, test and evaluation and
assessment of the Navy’s Surface Warfare Combat Systems. Serves as the
basis for the engineering, technical oversight, and facilities necessary to support
acquisition and ownership of Combat Systems and the control of the interfaces
across all ship combat system and warfare elements. The Combat System is comprised
of all shipboard elements that execute the “plan-detect- control-act” sequence.
The scope of support includes Combat Systems on all Navy combatant surface ships.
Knowledge and expertise include system understanding of detection, tracking,
identifying and display of enemy and friendly targets, the initialization, control
and firing of weapons, the mid-course guidance and detonation of weapons and
the kill evaluation. Results in fully integrated, tested, and operational Combat
Systems, capable of interfacing with other ships or national assets, to provide
the necessary support and fire power to meet the Navy’s current
and emerging threats and needs.
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Littoral Warfare Systems |
Mine Warfare
Systems - Provides the expertise and facilities for the full spectrum
of S&T, Research,
Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E), fleet support and
in-service engineering mine and mine
countermeasures systems. The mine efforts employ advanced sensor
and detection technologies to develop versatile and highly effective
mines. The mine countermeasures (MCM) efforts exploit new technologies
found in existing or emerging mine threats, and design and develop
new systems and tactics to counter those threats. The systems use
both dedicated and organic air, surface and sub-surface platforms
as well as remotely controlled and unmanned systems. The dedicated
assets include a wide variety of systems installed on the MHC and
MCM ships and MH-53 helicopters as well as others on smaller craft.
Includes organic minehunting systems that will be installed on
surface combatants and a fully integrated organic minehunting and
neutralization systems for the H-60 helicopters.
Allows the Navy
to conduct both offensive mine warfare to deny access to an area
by enemy forces, and defensive mine warfare which is capable of
detecting, identifying, and neutralizing mine threats from deep
water through the surf zone. Amphibious Warfare Systems - Provides
the expertise and facilities for the full spectrum of S&T,
RDT&E, fleet support and in-service engineering for Amphibious
Warfare Systems. Supports the warfare systems included on the amphibious
platforms LHD, LSD, LHA, and LPD. Systems include ship and craft
interface systems; command, control, and communication (C3) and
navigation equipment; decision support systems, targeting sensors;
battlespace information management systems; assault breaching systems;
ship-to-shore transport systems and off-load systems. The highly
specialized expertise applied in support of this core equity in
conjunction with environmentally permitted test ranges forms a
total system capability, technical depth and operational understanding.
Amphibious Warfare, an integral part of Expeditionary Warfare,
allows the capability to extend maneuver warfare from over-the-horizon,
and is vital to the current and future warfare area plans. Special
Warfare Systems - Provides the RDT&E, Acquisition Support and
In-Service Engineering for the
systems and equipment required to perform special mobility operations,
unconventional warfare, coastal and
riverine interdiction, beach and coastal reconnaissance and certain
intelligence operations. Supports subsurface and surface mobility
vehicles that can be manned, unmanned and remotely operated systems.
Operations conducted using these systems are generally performed
by Special Operations Forces and are accepted as being non-conventional
in nature and clandestine in character. Contributes to international
security, political stability, and economic progress, and plays
an important role in U. S. maritime strategy defined in Seapower
21, particularly in littoral warfare, for national security purposes.
Diving and Life Support Systems -
Provides RDT&E, acquisition
and in-service engineering support for the Navy’s underwater
and surface personal life support systems, and tri-service needs
for all aspects of diving and personal life support requirements.
Supports Naval Special Warfare, Explosive Ordnance Disposal, U.S.
Marine Combat Swimmer, and Salvage Diving for in-theater ship repair.
It also supports Life Support systems for manned operations in
hazardous environments. The latter systems are needed for effective
damage control and firefighting as well as providing protection
and an operational capability in chemical and biological hazard
scenarios and other extreme environments. Provides the capability
for divers to conduct reconnaissance, recover ordnance, and repair
damage. All of these are critical factors in maintaining the operational
status of the deployed task force
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Systems |
Targeting and
Shipboard Subsystems - Provides the engineering and technical oversight
capabilities
required to support the Navy strategic missile and re-entry systems.
The Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile
system (SLBM) is the primary focus supported by this core equity.
Specific areas include fire control, targeting,
launcher, and other shipboard subsystems. Supports the acquisition
and ownership of the software and hardware needed shipboard and
at U.S. Strategic Command for targeting and launching Navy Strategic
systems. Through the capabilities and corporate knowledge inherent
within this core equity new technologies and advanced capabilities
are developed, adapted and transitioned to meet emerging strategic
weapons system needs. Missile and Re-entry Systems - Provides the
engineering, technical oversight, and facilities to support
acquisition and ownership of Navy strategic missile and re-entry
systems. Supports development of missile
propellants and materials technology for SLBMs, and the assessment
of the effects of nuclear environments on re-entry body performance.
Includes support of the FBM Microelectronics Program, including
component modeling, theoretical analysis, device development, and
experimental analysis in both radiation and normal environments.
A key element is the development and maintenance of unique design,
performance, and test data for re-entry systems. Contributes to
the government capability and corporate knowledge base for developing,
adapting and transitioning new technologies and advanced capabilities
to meet emerging strategic weapons system needs.
Weapons System Level Analysis, Testing and Evaluation - Provides
the capability to analyze, test, and
evaluate systems which includes support of flight tests through
both pre- and post-flight analysis, system accuracy and performance
assessment in support of targeting, and management of problems
reported by operational forces. Functions are provided for Navy
Strategic systems and specifically the SLBM systems. Key products
and services produced include Technical Program Management (TPM)
requirements for acquisition and maintenance of SWS systems, evaluation
of contractors and SSP field activities, and management of the
TFR program. Provides the critical capability and corporate knowledge
base to allow for effective development, adaptation and transitioning
of new technologies and advanced capabilities to satisfy emerging
strategic weapons system needs.
Non-nuclear Strategic Weapons Systems - Provides the engineering,
technical oversight, and facilities to
support acquisition and ownership of the Navy’s non-nuclear
weapon systems deployed on strategic missiles or
platforms or used in a strategic role. There is a growing role
for such systems including on some of the SSBNs that will be converted
to SSGNs, i.e. cruise missile platforms. Provides the critical
capability and corporate knowledge base to allow for effective
development, adaptation and transitioning of new technologies and
advanced capabilities to satisfy emerging strategic weapons system
needs.
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Ordnance |
Warheads, Rockets, Ammunition and Other Ordnance Systems -
Provides research, design, development, analysis, modeling, engineering,
test, manufacture, acquisition, system integration, and industrial
base, fleet and operational support. These functions are provided
for energetic systems including Propellant Actuated Devices (PADs),
aircrew escape propulsion systems, gun ammunition, rockets, missiles,
Jet Assisted Takeoff Systems (JATOS), warheads, and other propellant
or explosive filled ordnance. Much of the capability of this core
equity has no or limited commercial equivalence, therefore it operates
as a national resource for uniquely military requirements and problems.
Results in safe, effective, and successful delivery and life cycle
support including reliability and quality evaluation of energetic
systems to meet operational requirements, and stewardship of an
essential capability. Energetic Materials - Provides
a full range of critical capabilities, to assure safe and effective
energetic materials are available, including research and development
(synthesis, formulations, test and analysis); advancement of state-of-the-art
energetic chemicals, propellants, explosives and pyrotechnics;
manufacturing technology; scale-up, prototyping and production;
hands on manufacturing expertise; industrial base support; and
weapons and system integration. These energetic materials are used
for many applications such as Cartridge Actuated Devices (CADs),
PADs, aircrew escape propulsion systems, gun ammunition, rockets,
missiles, JATOs, pyrotechnic devices, specialty devices, and warheads
as well as for torpedo fuels, propellants, explosives and pyrotechnics.
This capability has no or very limited commercial equivalence,
therefore it operates as a national resource for uniquely military
requirements. Results in safe and effective energetic materials
for use in ordnance and any military energetic system, as well
as, the ability to anticipate and meet mobilization and surge requirements.
Ordnance Safety, Logistics and Environmental Technology - Provides
research, engineering, development, test and evaluation, supporting
ordnance safety and ordnance environmental capabilities. The expertise,
resources and facilities are applied to energetic materials such
as energetic chemicals, propellants, explosives and pyrotechnics;
and ordnance or energetic systems such as CADs, PADs, gun ammunition,
rockets, missiles, JATOS, pyrotechnic devices, warheads and other
ordnance related products. Some products and services are: recommendations
for Navy policies and standards; explosive safety engineering;
hazard classification, safer synthesis and manufacturing of new
chemicals, pyrotechnics, explosives and propellants; training materials
for certification of explosive operations personnel; investigation
and analysis of explosive incidents and mishaps; evaluation, coordination
and determination of critical environmental technology; and the
packaging, handling, storage and transportation requirements and
designs for Naval ordnance. Results in safer and environmentally
friendly energetics and ordnance systems as well as the stewardship
for the increasingly important technologies and capabilities supporting
ordnance safety and environmental management. Cartridge Actuated,
Pyrotechnic, and Specialty Devices - Provides the research, design,
development, analysis, modeling, engineering, test, manufacture,
acquisition, weapons and system integration, and industrial base,
fleet and operational support. These functions are provided for
specialty energetic devices including pyrotechnic devices, cartridge
actuated devices, explosive bolts, cutters, sounding devices and
similar specialty devices. Much of this capability has no or very
limited commercial equivalence, therefore it operates as a national
resource for uniquely military requirements and problems. Results
in safe, effective, and successful delivery and life cycle support
including reliability and quality evaluation of specialty energetic
systems to meet operational requirements, and stewardship of an
essential capability.
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(USW) Command and Control Systems |
Provides corporate scientific and engineering knowledge and facilities
for planning, developing, and
conducting research, advanced engineering and operational systems
development to ensure undersea warfare
combat systems readiness. Provides a full spectrum program of research,
development and engineering committed to all acoustic elements of
submarine combat systems with generally equal emphasis on technology
base, advanced development, integration and assessment of: Active
and passive detection, classification, tracking and localization
capabilities; Acoustic communications capabilities; Hull-mounted
and towed arrays; Special acoustic and environmental sensor capabilities.
Provides corporate scientific and engineering knowledge and facilities
for planning, developing, and conducting research, advanced engineering
and operational systems development to ensure submarine imaging and
electronic warfare (I & EW) systems readiness. Provides corporate
scientific and engineering knowledge and facilities for planning,
developing, and conducting research, advanced engineering and operational
systems development to ensure submarine exterior communications systems
(ECS) readiness. Provides corporate innovative scientific and sonar
system engineering knowledge & facilities to meet fleet requirements
for undersea warfare capabilities of surface forces. Provides end
to end systems engineering of USW command and control across platforms,
connectivity and cognitive tools to share data within the USW Battlespace
and the theater level battlespace. This Product Area Directorate
encompasses the following: Submarine Combat Systems -
Provides corporate scientific and engineering knowledge and facilities
for planning, developing, and conducting research, advanced engineering
and operational systems development to
ensure undersea warfare combat systems readiness. Performs systems
engineering, independent verification and
validation (IV&V), and certification for integration of new and
upgraded combat, command, and control subsystems into total combat
systems. Performs analysis and evaluation of advanced technologies
for transition to combat control systems to ensure an affordable
evolution of compatible systems for fleet use. Ensures continuum
of life cycle engineering support for Fleet, industry and academia
toward development and maintenance of submarine USW combat systems.
Ensures leadership for development and specification of combat system
architecture and interface requirements, and demonstration of hardware,
software, and systems performance & integration. Submarine Sonar
Systems - Provides corporate scientific and engineering knowledge
to all acoustic
elements of submarine combat systems with generally equal emphasis
on technology base, advanced development, full-scale development
and in-service engineering support. Focuses on analysis, definition,
development, integration and assessment of: Active and passive detection,
classification, tracking and localization; Acoustic communications;
Hull-mounted and towed arrays; and Special acoustic and environmental
sensors. Determines system employment guidelines and training systems
development for operational realization of inherent capabilities
of developed systems. Ensures full spectrum support for all transduction
requirements of NUWC and serves as Navy’s principal activity
and center of expertise for acoustic transducer calibration, test,
measurement and standards. Submarine Imaging and Electronic Warfare -
Provides corporate scientific and engineering knowledge
and facilities for planning, developing, and conducting research,
advanced engineering and operational systems
development to ensure submarine imaging and electronic warfare (I & EW)
systems readiness. Performs systems
engineering, IV&V, and certification for integration of new and
upgraded I & EW subsystems into submarine
combat systems. Performs analysis, assessment, and evaluation of
advanced technologies for transition to I & EW
systems to ensure an affordable evolution of compatible systems for
fleet USW use. Ensures life cycle support of
submarine I & EW systems by performing in-service engineering
of installed systems to ensure fleet readiness.
Provides leadership for development and specification of submarine
I & EW systems and interface requirements,
and demonstration of hardware, software, and systems performance
and integration. Submarine Communications - Provides corporate scientific
and engineering knowledge and facilities for planning, developing,
and conducting research, advanced engineering and operational systems
development to ensure submarine exterior communications system (ECS)
readiness. Performs systems engineering, IV&V, and certification
for integration of new and upgraded communications subsystems and
antennas into submarine combat systems. Performs analysis, assessments,
and evaluation of advanced technologies for transition to ECS to
ensure an affordable evolution of compatible systems for fleet USW
use. Ensures continuum of life cycle engineering support for fleet,
industry and academia toward development and maintenance of submarine
ECS systems. Ensures leadership for development and specification
of submarine ECS and interface requirements, and demonstration of
hardware, software, and systems performance and integration.
Surface Undersea Warfare - Provides corporate
innovative scientific and sonar system engineering knowledge
and facilities to meet fleet requirements for undersea warfare
capabilities of surface forces. Conducts research, development,
test and evaluation for advanced sensor systems that detect,
classify, and localize current and projected submarine, torpedo,
and mine threats. Provides leadership in the area of surface
sonar systems through efforts involving performance analysis,
mission effectiveness evaluation, notional systems design, architectural
definition, computer-based modeling, simulation, hardware and
software prototype development, assessments, at-sea testing,
in-service engineering and operational support. Provides direct
fleet interface and engineering support for surface sonar in-service
systems and equipment, ILS management, supply, material, manufacturing
and procurement support
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(USW) Weapons and Vehicles |
Provides corporate and scientific and engineering knowledge and facilities
for planning, developing, and
conducting research, advanced development, and operational systems
development for all submarine, surface
ship, and air-launched torpedo systems. Provides expertise and specialized
facilities in support of experimental
vehicle technology base programs to ensure technology insertion for
Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV)
Systems. Provides capabilities required to establish techniques and
identify transition technologies required to
defeat an attacking torpedo. Provides technical leadership and management
of submarine and assigned surface
ship ASW weapon launching and handling systems. Provides corporate
scientific and engineering knowledge
and facilities for planning, developing, assessing, integrating,
testing and operationally supporting USW
tactical missile systems to ensure undersea warfare systems readiness.This
Product Area Directorate
encompasses the followingTorpedoes - Provides corporate
and scientific and engineering knowledge and facilities for
planning, developing, and conducting research, advanced development,
and operational systems development for all submarine, surface ship,
and air-launched torpedo systems. Performs systems engineering, design
engineering, software engineering, logistics engineering and T&E
for integration for new and upgraded torpedo systems into the Fleet.
Identifies, develops, demonstrates and transitions new technology
for torpedo systems. Ensures full spectrum of life cycle support
engineering for fleet, industry and academia toward development and
maintenance of torpedo systems.
Unmanned Undersea Vehicles - Provides expertise
and specialized facilities in support of
experimental vehicle technology base programs to ensure technology
insertion for unmanned undersea vehicle
systems (UUVs). This role includes inventing, developing, integrating,
demonstrating, and transitioning of UUV
science and technology into the Fleet; provides technical program
engineering and management dealing with life-
cycle support for UUVs, undersea targets, countermeasures, and counterweapon
systems. Platform Defensive Systems - Provide capabilities required
to establish techniques and identify transition technologies required
to defeat an attacking torpedo. These techniques encompass the torpedo
detection, classification and localization and the effective combat
control interfaces as well as the various devices and methods employed
to defeat the threats. Achievement of self-defense goals requires
the use of advanced signal processing (such as neural nets and wavelets),
improved transducers (for both transmit and receive), adaptive processing
and structured signal designs for countermeasures, the development
of guidance and control algorithms and vehicle systems required to
intercept high speed incoming targets, and novel concepts to defeat
torpedoes that are within a few hundred yards of own ship. USW Launchers - Provides technical leadership
and management of submarine and assigned surface ship ASW weapon
launching and handling systems. Responsibilities include program/technical
management of submarine and surface vessel weapon launching systems,
exploratory development, advanced development, assessments, system
analysis and simulation as required to define launcher systems
and subsystems, requirements
for development, operational systems development, testing cognizance and in-service
engineering functions, system analysis and simulation required to define launcher
systems and subsystems requirements for development. Responsibilities include
integration of equipment and subsystems, maintenance, logistic support, quality
assurance and production in conjunction with other government activities, private
industry, universities and foreign activities as well as maintaining and operating
extensive unique supporting laboratory facilities.
Submarine Missile Launcher Integration - Provides corporate scientific
and engineering knowledge and facilities for planning, developing,
assessing, integrating, testing and operationally supporting USW
tactical missile systems to ensure undersea warfare systems readiness.
Performs systems engineering, design engineering, software engineering,
logistics engineering and T&E for integration of new
and existing missile systems on submarines. Analyzes and evaluates
advanced technologies for transition to missile systems to ensure
an affordable evolution of compatible systems for Fleet use. Ensures
continuum of life cycle engineering support for Fleet, industry and
academia toward development and maintenance of USW tactical missile
systems. Ensures leadership for development of USW tactical missile systems and
interface requirements, and
demonstration of hardware, software, and systems performance and integration.
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| 9.0 Undersea Warfare
(USW) Ranges, Analysis, and Assessment |
Provides corporate
engineering and scientific knowledge and facilities for planning,
developing,
installing, and operating undersea ranges for US and allied USW
training and test and evaluation. Provides a
comprehensive undersea warfare analysis foundation that supports
the conceptualization of current and
emerging undersea warfare technological and operational directions.
Provides comprehensive end-to-end
USW readiness assessment, facilities, and training support to US
and Allied foreign government undersea
warfare research and development, Fleet tactical development, and
readiness.
This Product Area Directorate
encompasses the following: USW Ranges -
Provides corporate engineering and scientific knowledge and facilities
for planning, developing, installing, and operating undersea ranges
for United States and allied USW training and test
and evaluation. Performs program management, systems engineering,
requirements definition, algorithm and
software development, ocean engineering, and acoustic, optical,
and electronics technologies for training and T&E
range development. Provides integration of live ranges with simulated
and constructive exercises for undersea
battlespace development to ensure affordable training and T&E
options for the Fleet. Ensures leadership for
development and specification of undersea ranges and engineering
and T&E facilities. USW Analysis - Provides a comprehensive
undersea warfare analysis foundation that supports the conceptualization
of current and emerging undersea warfare technological and operational
directions. Performs the analysis modeling and simulation of USW
mission effectiveness required to assess submarine and surface
ship USW including all aspects of warfare from under the sea and
warfare against undersea threats including submarines, torpedoes
and mines. Evaluates at-sea exercises through detailed reconstruction
to explain system-level operations. Provides Science Advisors and
technical support to the Fleet and Headquarters Commands. Performs
technical analysis of intelligence information to assess implications
for USW research and development.
USW Operational Assessment - Provides comprehensive
end-to-end USW readiness assessment, facilities, and training
support to United States and Allied foreign government undersea
warfare research and development, Fleet tactical development,
and readiness assessment programs. Performs full spectrum test
requirement development, production acceptance, test planning,
conduct, and performance assessment of major
weapon systems, subsystems, and components at diverse facilities,
in both real and simulated environments.
Conducts comprehensive testing of ASW systems in the laboratory,
dockside and underway, to ensure fully
operational combat systems are delivered to the Fleet and to provide
a continuing assessment of USW combat
system material readiness. Establishes and provides Fleet tactical
training methods and procedures to Fleet units.
Provides leadership for the development and specification of the
Undersea Battlespace, providing the ability to
simulate the introduction of new and proposed systems to the warfighter
in his environment. Conduct operational
testing, and develop evaluation reports for operational test and
evaluation agencies.
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| 10.0 Undersea (USW)
Fleet Material Readiness |
Provides Fleet material support, modernization and industrial technology engineering
with the objective
of ensuring the highest quality Fleet material availability and readiness through
repair, overhaul and engineering
and logistics support for parts and systems. Provides unique and
specialized industrial facilities and maintenance
engineering necessary to ensure Fleet material readiness for undersea
vehicles (torpedoes, targets, countermeasures
and mines). Including capabilities for disassembly, cleaning, module
and components overhaul, upgrade and repair,
assembly, fueling, ordnance handling, testing and environmental control
of hazardous operations. Provides light
industrial technology engineering and shop capabilities (machining,
plating, painting, powder coasting and
electronic or electrical fabrication) for maintenance technology
development, rapid prototyping, and custom
engineering and fabrication solutions to resolve critical Fleet material
needs due to obsolescence systems or
components, lost sources of repair, or Original Equipment Manufacturer
(OEM) “bail-outs”.
This Product Area Directorate encompasses the following:
USW Depot - Provides Fleet material maintenance
technology engineering and industrial
capabilities required to ensure highest Fleet material availability,
reliability, and sustainability. Provides unique
engineering and industrial support of Fleet undersea vehicles including
all Depot and Intermediate Maintenance
Activity (IMA) processes for upgrades and turnarounds for all US
Navy torpedoes (MK46, MK50, MK48, and
MK54); troubleshooting, field change installation and repairs on
all target systems; preparation of Ready for Issue
(RFI) MK30 Targets; removal, disassembly, repair, reassembly, testing,
and installation of 5” and 6”
countermeasures; overhaul, repair, and assembly of undersea weapons delivery
systems and Fleet training system
such as submarine and surface ship torpedo launch systems and Antisubmarine Rocket
(ASROC) Vertical Launch
System (VLS); and overhaul or repair and industrial support to US Navy undersea
mine program such as the
Quickstrike Mine assemblies and AN/SQQ-32 Mine Hunting Sonar Systems. Provide
overhaul and repair of Navy
electronic modules and systems, electro-mechanical devices, and mechanical systems.
Obsolescence Engineering Solutions - Provides maintenance technology development,
rapid prototyping, precision COTS insertion, and custom engineering and fabrication
solutions to resolve critical Fleet material needs due to systems obsolescence,
unavailable or inadequate engineering documentation, or “lack of response” from
Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) or lost sources of repair.
Provide emergent overhaul or repair and low-quantity manufacturing
of defense electronic modules and systems, electro-mechanical devices,
and mechanical systems.
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| 11.0 Homeland Security
and Force Protection |
This Product Area Directorate
encompasses the following core equities:
Homeland Security and Measured Response Options -
Provides a technical and systems
engineering integration of capabilities in support of current and
future homeland security requirements. Provides
support to the homeland security components of homeland defense and
support to civilian authorities to include
coastal security, critical infrastructure protection, and counter-drug
applications. Allows for preparation, prevention, deterrence, defense
and response from asymmetric threats to non-military targets, both
home and abroad. Additionally, provides non-traditional measures
to counter these threats with operationally relevant measured response
option that enable forces to optimize their effectiveness in operations
other than war while preserving their ability to fight and win. NSWC’s
Naval Operations Other Than War Technology Center, The Joint Program
Office for Special Technology Countermeasures and Critical Infrastructure
Protection, and the DoD Counterdrug Technology Development Program
are integral parts of this core equity. Force Protection, Chemical and Biological Defense Systems -
Provides leadership, concept
generation, and products to prevent or mitigate terrorist actions
against DoD personnel, resources, facilities, and
critical information to include physical security, operations security,
and personal protective services. Supports
combating terrorism activities and missions (both anti-terrorism
and counter-terrorism) with the objectives of
reducing the vulnerability to terrorist acts and developing offensive
measures designed to prevent, deter, and respond to terrorism. Addresses
consequence management, crisis management and intelligence support
taken to oppose terrorist threats including chemical and biological
attacks. The Navy’s
lead in chemical and biological
defense systems and addresses the technology base, threat analysis
and full spectrum of engineering expertise
necessary to develop collective protection systems designs, to develop
and test standoff and point detection options, decontamination solutions
and techniques, and modeling and simulation. Mission Assurance Capabilities - Provides the
ability to identify critical infrastructure susceptibilities and
operational dependencies that, if not assured, could adversely
impact mission success, or continuity of operations. Includes physical
and logical infrastructure modeling (of commercial and defense
networks), asset-to-mission dependency analysis, mission readiness
and assurance assessments, risk-based management solutions, data
mining and information management. This support is provided to
mission planners, regional and installation commanders, and the
warfighter as well as decision makers within the defense industrial
base and/or acquisition community. Critical Infrastructure Protection
and Mission Assurance initiatives have lead the way by developing
and standardizing the methodologies and analytic capabilities to
support the warfighter and
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| 12.0 Surface Warfare
Logistics and Maintenance |
This Product Area
Directorate encompasses the following core equities:
In support
of COMNAVSEA’s goal to become more efficient
and effective in sustaining Fleet readiness, this functionally-oriented
Product Area Directorate (PAD) was created to focus on improving
processes and concepts
for how the Warfare Centers support the Fleet. The Surface Warfare
Logistics and Maintenance PAD is responsible for the following
tasks. Working closely with the Undersea Warfare (USW) Fleet Material
Readiness Product Area Director (PAD) to share engineering best
practices and makes recommendations to the other PADs on instituting
process improvements in their respective PAs. This may include
developing customer-engineered solutions to process issues specific
to a PA. Fostering collaboration on a wide array of maintenance
engineering concepts, tools, processes including but not limited
to depot operations, obsolescence management, COTS management and
maintenance, and supply chain management. Working with the Work
Assignment Executive (WAE) and PADs to provide assistance to PEOs,
PMs, WAE, PADs in resolving logistics and maintenance engineering
challenges. This includes addressing current and future Fleet Logistics
and Maintenance requirements, determining investments that are
needed, participating in initiatives that improve readiness, and
leveraging NAVSUP supply management solutions. Collaborating with
the USW Fleet Material Readiness PAD to provide oversight and coordination
to the Warfare Center Maintenance Engineering Working Group. This
includes raising awareness of initiatives, techniques, and processes
and examining tools to solve current critical supply system issues.
Providing oversight and stewardship of critical products and industrial
base capabilities such as batteries, microwave tubes, and others
necessary to the sustainment of Naval warfare systems. Working
with the PADs to make recommendations on engineering agent assignments
in the area of logistics and maintenance engineering for Surface
Warfare. In addition to the responsibilities listed above, the
Surface Warfare Logistics and Maintenance PAD is accountable for
the following items. Providing guidance and oversight for process
improvements, specifically in logistics and maintenance engineering
within Surface Warfare and overall, working to optimize technical
and in-service engineering processes across all of the Warfare
Centers’ sites.
Ensuring the Warfare Centers perform effectively and efficiently
to meet customer and sponsor needs on a functional basis, focused
on logistics and maintenance engineering. Providing advocacy for
the Warfare Centers and highlighting their contributions to the
Fleet, particularly when process improvements result in improving
the sailor’s life, reducing maintenance burdens, reducing
manning and developing future concepts to improve systems. Supporting
NAVSEA Logistics, Maintenance & Industrial Operations Directorate
(SEA 04) on Warfare Centers’ initiatives such as Sea Warrior
- Initiatives Task Force EXCEL, tools, capabilities and processes
in logistics and maintenance engineering for Surface Warfare. |
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| 5.0 SECURITY REQUIREMENTS |
The work to be performed under this contract
may involve access to, handling of, and generation of classified
material. The Contractor shall appoint a Security Officer, who shall
(1) be responsible for all security aspects of the work performed
under this contract,
(2) assure compliance with all DoD and U.S.
Navy regulations regarding security, and
(3) assure compliance with
any written instructions from the Security Officers of the activity
issuing delivery orders under this contract. When applicable, a DD
Form 254 will be prepared by the ordering activity and issued with
the delivery order. |
| 6. 0 DATA DELIVERABLES |
Specific
technical data will be ordered under CDRLs attached to individual
Task Orders issued under the contract. It is anticipated that data
items ordered under individual orders will be required to be prepared
using standardized Data Item Descriptions (DIDs) listed in the
DoD Acquisition Management System and Data Requirements Control
List (AMSDL) current at the time of order issuance. It
is anticipated that all deliverables prepared under this contract
may be required to be delivered as either hardcopy and on electronic
media or both as specified in the individual delivery orders. |
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