TTO_Office_Wide_BAA_Proposers_Day_20130423.pdf

Tactical Technology Office (TTO)

Bradford C. Tousley, Ph.D., Director

Briefing prepared for TTO Office Wide BAA Proposers’ Day

April 23, 2013

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was established in 1958 to prevent strategic surprise from negatively affecting U.S. national security and create strategic surprise for U.S. adversaries by maintaining the technological superiority of the U.S. military.

To fulfill its mission, the Agency relies on diverse performers to apply multi-disciplinary approaches to both advance knowledge through basic research and create innovative technologies that address current practical problems through applied research.

As the DoD’s primary innovation engine, DARPA undertakes projects that are finite in duration but that create lasting revolutionary change.

Mission

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Sputnik

34th President of the United States 1953-1961.

Coined the term “military-industrial complex” and warned against its unwarranted influence.

Created DARPA in response to Sputnik.

First orbiting satellite. The satellite was not a threat, but the level of technology indicated that the Soviet Union possessed superior capability for intercontinental reconnaissance and bombing.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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DARPA

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DSO MTO I2O TTO STO AEO

Defense Sciences Office

Microsystems Technology Office

Information Innovation Office

Tactical Technology Office

Adaptive Execution Office

Strategic Technology Office

DARPA organization

• Finding difficult targets

• Communica-tions, networks, and electronic warfare

• Shaping the environment

• Ground systems

• Maritime

• Air systems

• Space

• Cyber

• Data analytics at massive scale

• ISR

exploitation

• Biology/bio platforms

• Computing

• Electronic warfare

• Manufacturing

• Novel concepts

• Photonics

• PNT

• Thermal management

• Physical sciences

• Neuroscience

• Materials

• Mathematics

• Biology

• Coordinated field trials

• Technology insertion

• DARPA-

Combatant Command interaction

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Tactical Technology Office (TTO)

Aero-& Hydrodynamic Systems (13)

Tactical Technologies (8)

Vision TTO will rapidly develop new prototype military capabilities that create an asymmetric technological advantage and provide U.S. forces with decisive superiority and the ability to overwhelm our opponents.

Objective To provide or prevent strategic and tactical surprise with very high-payoff, high-risk development of revolutionary new platforms, weapons, critical technologies and systems, approaches addressing affordability, as well as rapid agile development.

Ground Systems Maritime Systems

TTO Focus Areas

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Air Systems Space Systems

TTO legacy – a reminder

Boomerang

Tank Breaker M16

(Project Agile) Army Tactical Missile System (Assault Breaker)

Netfires Talon

2003 1967 1978 BigDog

Ground Systems

Sea Shadow

Maritime Systems

1984 1969 1988 1992 MK 50 Torpedo Propulsion System

Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV)

Submarine Technology

(SUBTECH)

Air Systems

Tacit Blue X-45/46/47 Global Hawk X-31

1990 1977 2002 Have Blue A-160 Falcon HTV-2

2011 2005 Damage Tolerant Controls (DTC)

Orbital Express (OE) MiTEX Pegasus Taurus Falcon Small Launch Vehicle

Global Low Orbiting Message Relay

(GLOMR)

2007 2006 1990 2003 1985 1995

Space Systems

Space Surveillance Telescope (SST)

DARPASAT

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Artist’s concept

Artist’s concept

Artist’s concept

The environment

Multipolar

- Diverse threats

- Low to high intensity spectrum

- Counter-insurgency

Peer/Non-peer threats

- Pacific and other

- Denied environments

- Countermeasures

Cost challenge

- Rapid and expansive red force modernization

- Long U.S. development cycles of complex systems

- Smaller U.S. defense industrial base

- Increasing lifecycle cost

Global market and tech proliferation

- Medium technology swarms

- Rapid countermeasure development

- Cost of labor

Areas of potential threats

Source: DARPA; based on collation of publicly available metrics, including (1) Foreign Policy Failed States Index, (2) Aon Political Risk Map, (3) Control Risks Political Risk Map, and (4) Bradburys Security Risk Map.

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Source: DefenceWeb.co.za

Source: NavyTimes.com

Source: AirForce-Technology.com

What we look for in programs

Robotics Challenge

Phoenix

VTOL X-Plane

ACTUV

ALASA

• Big wins; decisive superiority

• Drive cost-effectiveness (system and countermeasures)

• Decisive and flexible systems (unbalance)

• Rapid developmental program execution (agile)

• Demonstrating prototypes (new capabilities)

• Unmanned leverage (maximize effectiveness)

• Develop Service buy-in (transition)

• Cross-domain capabilities – cover the “seams” across Service stovepipes

Artist’s concept

Artist’s concepts

Artist’s concepts

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How we execute our programs

• Accept risk for high payoffs – know the difference between cool Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) engineering/incremental payoff

vs. breakthrough surprise

• Don’t be upset with failure; be upset with failing to try

• Know your business case and capabilities

• Focus on rapid execution and performer competition through PDR/CDR and beyond if affordable

• Demand the A-team from performers; if you don’t get it, don’t start; all competitive leverage is at the beginning

• Avoid competition with the Services

• Recognize that sometimes you have to break glass

• Develop good relationships with partners

• Partners with resources can really help us make a difference

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Strategy map to focus areas

Work in four domains: Ground, Maritime, Air and Space

Do not focus on: Cyber Tools, Counter WMD, PNT, Comms

• Enable precision strike at extended ranges

• Enable air dominance

• Protect our critical assets (Ground, Maritime, Air and Space)

• Develop flexible, agile and precise ground combat systems

• Demonstrate critical asymmetric capabilities

• Attack the cost equation challenges and prototype new (agile) systems engineering approaches

• Leverage key DARPA technology subsystem advances

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Ground Systems Maritime Systems Air Systems Space Systems

Systems focus areas

DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC)

Legged Squad Support System (LS3)

Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail

Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV)

Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) X-Plane

Hypersonic Technologies Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM)

Phoenix

Airborne Launch Assist Space Access (ALASA)

Crosscutting Themes Agile development approach, autonomy, unmanned systems, power and propulsion

Artist’s concepts

Artist’s concept

Artist’s concept Artist’s Concept

Amplify unit/Soldier effectiveness

Technical goals

• Lethality overmatch and scalable effects

• Agility and mobility

• Reduce footprint

• Manned and unmanned operations

• Digital systems

Ground systems

Program Objective

DARPA Robotics Challenge

(DRC)

Develop human-compatible robot systems for response to natural and man-made disasters.

Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO)

Demonstrate closed-loop guided flight of a .50-caliber bullet/weapon system and survivability of bullet components.

Fast, Adaptable, Next Generation (FANG) Ground Combat Vehicle

Reduce the time to develop a ground vehicle by at least fivefold.

Instant Foundry Adaptive Through Bits (iFAB)

Develop a foundry-style manufacturing capability.

Legged Squad Support (LS3) Develop a quadruped unmanned ground vehicle to lighten the Soldier’s load, guided by Soldier-bounded autonomy.

META Develop novel tools to enable the ability to develop complex systems based on rapid (correct) design and development.

Persistent Close Air Support

(PCAS)

Enhance dismounted ground personnel effectiveness with CAS equipment enabling precise coordination and targeting of airborne weapons.

Current efforts

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Potential future investment in ground systems

Medium Caliber Precision Weapon

Squad X Artist’s concepts

Maritime systems

Control the sea, influence events on land

Technical goals

• Situational awareness/threats

• New capabilities

• Strike (asymmetric, affordable, precise, extended range)

• High-value asset protection

Program Objective

Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV)

Demonstrate an unmanned vessel optimized to provide continuous overt trail of threat submarines.

Long Range Anti-ship Missile

(LRASM)

Demonstrate an integrated prototype design of a high-effectiveness anti-ship strike capability.

Tactically Expandable Maritime Platform (TEMP)

Develop modular technologies to convert an unmodified commercial containership into a surrogate naval platform capability.

Tactically Exploitative Reconnaissance Node (TERN)

Enable robust global access by demonstrating a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned vehicle operable from smaller ships.

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Air systems

Control the air and strike anytime/anywhere

Technical goals

• High-speed precision strike

• Extend performance envelope (speed, range, payload, endurance, survivability)

• Address the tyranny of distance

• Advanced propulsion and power systems

Program Objective Hypersonic Technologies Develop and test unmanned, rocket-launched, maneuverable, hypersonic air vehicles for critical missions.

Mission Adaptive Rotor (MAR) Develop foundational technologies to enable high speed and efficient hover through advanced rotor designs.

Transformer (TX) Develop a modular compact autonomous cargo delivery vertical lift system.

Triple Target Terminator (T3) Develop a high-speed, long-range aerodynamic missile that would defeat current and projected enemy targets.

Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) X-Plane

Develop and demonstrate a VTOL air vehicle capable of efficient hover and improved high-speed flight.

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Potential future investment in air systems

Integrated Hypersonics (IH)

Novel UAVs Cooperative manned and unmanned air operations

Surrogate piloting capabilities

Artist’s concept

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Program Objective Airborne Launch Assist Space Access (ALASA)

Enable small satellites to be deployed to orbit from an airborne platform, allowing performance improvement, reducing range costs, and flying more frequently, which drives cost per pound down.

Galileo Enable mission protection, anomaly resolution and satellite repurposing.

International Space Station SPHERES Integrated Research Experiments (InSPIRE)

Upgrade spheres with manipulator arms to support Phoenix and upgrade the docking ports to reduce fuel consumption.

Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE)

Provide persistent tactical video coverage to the warfighter.

OrbitOutlook Demonstrate a cost-effective way to increase the amount and quality of SSA information critical to warfighters:

purchase data rather than build and operate sensors.

Phoenix Develop technologies to harvest and re-use components from retired, non-working satellites in GEO and demonstrate the ability to create new space systems at a greatly reduced cost.

Space Surveillance Telescope (SST)/SST-Australia (SST-AUS)

Develop an advanced ground-based optical system for rapid, wide-area, uncued detection and tracking of faint objects in deep space. Refine and evaluate data processing techniques, such as those developed under the Ibex effort.

Space systems

Normalize and simplify space Technical goals

• Affordable routine access

• Reduce escalating systems cost

• New capability

• Survivability/resilience/reconstitution/autonomy

• Disaggregation/simplification

• Space situational awareness

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Potential future investment in space systems

Experimental Solar Electric Propulsion

Vehicle (X-SEP) Small affordable launch Small Responsive

Space Access X-Plane

Artist’s concept

Artist’s concept

Artist’s Concept

Evolving threats/capabilities to consider

• Counter-UAV (threats are developing fast as we are) – ours and theirs

• Swarm and counterswarm capabilities (vulnerable maritime citadels)

• Development of capable unmanned systems operating in contested/denied environments (will our systems survive or acceptably attrit—low cost)

• Missile defense/counterhypersonics – who defends and how?

• Advanced sea-to-land rapid transport remains a big challenge

We will initiate studies in these areas as a discussion/starting point

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Tactical Technology Office (TTO):

Office Wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)

Pamela Melroy, Deputy Director

Briefing prepared for TTO Office Wide BAA Proposers’ Day

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Why are we here today?

• We want to make sure that you understand our approach including:

− The areas we are focusing on and why, so that you can be more effective in what you propose

− Our process and the realities about the way our office wide BAA works

• We want to answer your questions:

− During tomorrow’s sidebars, tell us your ideas for truly revolutionary technologies that are aligned with a PM’s vision

− Tell us your thoughts on how we can tap into new ideas that can strengthen our existing programs

• The interchange of ideas between DARPA and industry has always been at the heart of TTO’s approach to developing revolutionary technologies:

− Many programs have started as seedlings from office wide BAA submissions

How does it work?

• 1-year-long office wide BAA:

− Designated BAA coordinator and email address

− Does not supersede program BAAs

• Executive summaries, white papers and proposals

Our “engine” is made up of our PMs’ visions

Things to keep in mind (1 of 2)

• No-Interest/Discourage means:

− In the form you submitted, we are not interested in your idea because:

− The submission does not present an approach to developing technology that is aligned with the DARPA/TTO focus areas and interests

− The submission is not important to TTO’s areas of responsibility as outlined in the BAA

− The submission is not suitably structured to produce a TTO systems-level demonstration or product

− The submission does not substantiate a revolutionary military capability within the TTO portfolio

− The proposed approach does not clearly identify current limitations that would be overcome

− The submission does not identify barriers to implementing new operational concepts and postulate solutions

− The submission does not convey technology significantly beyond the state of the art

− It does NOT mean that you cannot resubmit after changing your concept or that you cannot submit a full proposal... BUT chances of success are extremely slim

Things to keep in mind (2 of 2)

• Interest/Encourage means:

−We find your idea interesting and we would like to know more − It does NOT mean that you are funded or that a full proposal will be accepted

• Funding potential:

− Intent is to fund seedlings at < $1M − Proposals may have options for a larger follow-on program − Efforts larger than seedlings are likely to be handled as a program (options or through a program BAA)

Do and don’t

• DO read the BAA-13-22 document in its entirety

• DO use the executive summary and white paper process

• DO forward any questions related to the DARPA/TTO Office Wide BAA to DARPA- BAA-13-22@darpa.mil

• Do NOT hand carry paper copies to the DARPA building

• Do NOT email/fax in your executive summary, white paper or proposal to the BAA-13-22 mailbox

• Do NOT call to check on the status of your submission

Questions?

• How can we improve the process?*

*...please don’t ask us to change the Federal Acquisition Regulations!

www.darpa.mil

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Ground Systems Panel Session

LTC Joseph Hitt, Ph.D. (Lead) Mr. Aaron Moore

Dr. Gill Pratt Mr. Stephen Waller

LTC Nathan Wiedenman, Ph.D.

TTO Office Wide BAA Proposers’ Day

Ground Systems legacy programs

Multidimensional Mobility Robot

(MDMR)

2008 2008

PerceptOR Crusher Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle (UGCV)

2004 2004 Iron Curtain

Boomerang

M16 (Project Agile)

1970 1980 2010 1990

Army Tactical Missile System (Assault Breaker)

Pack Bot

UGCV +

PerceptOR Integration (UPI) BigDog

Autonomous Land Vehicle (ALV) Tank Breaker

Brilliant Anti-Tank Munition (BAT) Netfires Talon

Tactical Mobile Robots (TMR)

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Ground Systems current programs

Legged Squad Support System (LS3)

Develop a highly mobile, semi-autonomous quadruped ground vehicle to lighten the Soldiers’ load

DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC)

Develop human-compatible robot system for response to natural and man-made disasters

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Ground Systems current programs (cont.)

Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordinance

(EXACTO)

Demonstrate closed-loop guided flight of a .50-caliber bullet/weapon system and survivability of bullet components

Persistent Close Air Support

(PCAS)

Enhance dismounted ground agent effectiveness with equipment enabling precise coordination and command of airborne weapons

Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM)

Revolutionize the design and build process for complex defense systems by compressing the development timelines at least fivefold while increasing the national pool of innovation by several factors of 10

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Objective: Amplify unit/Soldier effectiveness

Ground Systems description

Today’s Environment Technical Goals

• Strategic environment is changing:

ground forces must do more with less

• Adaptive enemies will continue to engineer countermeasures to U.S.

technological advances

• A lack of overmatch at the Soldier and squad levels

• Increasing vehicle capability and protection is coupled to increasing vehicle weight and volume

• Appropriate precision response at multiple scales

• Agility and novel mobility at multiple scales

• Reduced force density

• Manned and unmanned operations

• Digitization at the squad level

Soldier/squad

• Situational awareness and mission command

• Lethality

• Mobility and human performance

• Squad-integrated unmanned platforms

• Advanced human-machine teaming at multiple scales

• Signature management

Vehicles

• Force protection and signature management

• Crew augmentation capability

• Platform mobility and lethality

• Improved platform capability efficiencies

Complex urban environments

• Novel approaches to urban mobility

• Reliable localization and intrasquad communication

• Outdoors-to-indoors unmanned operation

• Threat “anticipation” technology

• Tagging, tracking and locating

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Ground Systems summary

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Maritime Systems Panel Session

Mr. Scott Littlefield (Lead) Dr. Arthur Mabbett

Dr. Daniel Patt CAPT Christopher Warren

TTO Office Wide BAA Proposers’ Day

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Maritime Systems legacy programs

1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV)

Tango Bravo 1988 2004

Sea Shadow MK 50 Torpedo Propulsion System

Submarine Technology (SUBTECH) Collaborative Networked

Autonomous Vehicle (CNAV)

1984 1969 1992 2008

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Maritime Systems current programs

Artist’s concept

ASW Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel

(ACTUV)

Demonstrate unmanned vehicle’s capability to track and monitor a diesel submarine to offload tasks from manned platforms

Long Range Anti-Ship Missile

(LRASM)

Demonstrate an integrated prototype design of a high-effectiveness anti-ship strike capability

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Maritime Systems current programs (cont.)

Tactically Expandable Maritime Platform

(TEMP)

Develop modular technologies to convert an unmodified commercial containership into a surrogate naval platform

Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node

(TERN)

Develop Medium-Altitude, Long-Endurance Unmanned Vehicle (MALE UAV) performance operable from smaller ships

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Objective: Control the sea, influence events on land

Maritime Systems description

Today’s Environment Future Vision

• Small numbers of well-defended but expensive manned platforms

• Threats and economic interests spread through vast maritime areas of operation: Naval assets spread thin

• Increasing threat from long-range missiles and sophisticated ISR systems

• Insufficient capacity to deliver effects from our most survivable platforms

• Measure/countermeasure cost imbalance favors our adversaries

• Survivable and highly distributed capability to deliver effects from long distances

• Ability to perform big platform missions without big platforms:

• Greatly expanded capacity

• Reduce “brittleness” of the force

• Flip measure/countermeasure cost imbalance in our favor

• Enhanced situational awareness and threat detection

• Order-of-magnitude improvement in key operating parameters of maritime and subsurface vessels (manned and unmanned)

• Sea-based unmanned air vehicles focusing on innovative aero designs and novel launch and recovery of unmanned platforms. Expand operational reach of small ships

• Human operators can effectively perform tasks through remote unmanned systems operations, utilizing minimal data content and communications bandwidth

• Nonlethal approaches to disable maritime platforms that are interspersed with noncombatant surface vessels

• Advanced extended-range, high-speed propulsive agile torpedo engagement with reduced signatures

• Innovations in rail gun, coil gun, light gas gun and advanced cannon technologies

• Technologies that enable novel and cost-effective platform approaches to traditional maritime missions

• Kinetic and nonkinetic defeat of nontraditional threats and high-volume precision engagement against near-peer offensive systems

• Novel technologies that cost-effectively expand and bridge maritime and subsurface platform use with other warfighting domains such as: maritime-to-air, maritime-to-space, subsurface-to-ground combat and subsurface-to-air

• Propulsion technologies that enable new missions or deliver increased power, power density, proficiency and/or an order-of-magnitude increase in key performance parameters (thrust, endurance, top speed and time on target)

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Maritime Systems summary

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Air Systems Panel Session

Dr. Ashish Bagai (Lead) Mr. Bob Arbach

Mr. Mark Gustafson Mr. Stephen Waller

TTO Office Wide BAA Proposers’ Day

1980 1990 2000

Air Systems legacy programs

A-160

No Tail Rotor

(NOTAR)

Tacit Blue

X-45/46/47

Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft

(UCAR)

Global Hawk

X-31

X-50

1982 1977

X-32/35

Have Blue

X-Wing

Falcon HTV-2

Micro Air Vehicle

(MAV)

X-29

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Damage Tolerant Controls (DTC)

Artist’s concept Artist’s concept

Air Systems current programs

Develop and demonstrate technologies that enable long-range, high-performance maneuvering hypersonic flight; explore vehicle concepts for tactical-range hypersonic cruise missiles and hypersonic boost glide vehicles

ISR

Artist’s Concept

Hypersonic Technologies Triple Target Terminator (T3)

Range performance and target flexibility for anti-aircraft, anti-cruise missiles, and anti-surface to air radar

Air Systems current programs (cont.)

Transformer (TX)

Modular, versatile, unmanned airlift capability via interchangeable, multi-mission payloads

Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) X-Plane

Artist’s Concepts

Transformational vertical flight capabilities applicable to light-medium class aircraft

Foundational technologies to enable enhanced rotary-wing and VTOL performance capabilities

Artist’s Concepts

Mission Adaptive Rotor (MAR)

Artist’s Concepts

Objective: Control the air and strike anytime/anywhere

Air Systems description

Today’s Environment Technical Goals

• Configuration innovations have slowed down

• Lifecycle costs continue to increase

• Performance capabilities have saturated:

• Human in-the-loop control still necessary

• Weapon/payload delivery is limited and expensive

• Propulsion approaches are too homogenous

• Concepts of employment and operations have remained virtually unchanged

• Experimental aircraft (X-Planes) – demonstrate technologies at relevant scales

• Advanced manufacturing and improved reliability

• Expand performance envelope – endurance, speed, range, payload, survivability:

• Autonomy

• High-speed, low-cost precision strike

• Novel propulsion – hybridization, distribution

• Improved capabilities to enable improved and new missions

Air Systems summary

Technical goals for hypersonic platforms

• High-performance, robust hypersonic vehicle designs with large operational envelopes

• Lightweight, high-strength hypersonic airframe structures for expendable and reusable vehicles

• Novel materials and design approaches for active and passive thermal protection, able to accommodate high heating for short durations and moderate heating for long durations

• Manufacturing technologies enabling new/novel aerospace materials and agile design for hypersonic vehicle structures, e.g. additive manufacturing

• Adaptive reconfigurable control, real-time trajectory optimization, robust energy management

• Propulsion systems: Scramjets, combined cycle

Technical goals for all novel air vehicles

• Specific technologies to support extreme-range, high-speed, low-cost, long-endurance operations

• New control laws, maneuver and control techniques

• Hybrid and/or distributed propulsion systems

• Flow control, drag reduction

• Multifunctional subsystems

• Advanced test and simulation

• Nontraditional weapon concepts

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Space Systems Panel Session

Lt Col Travis Blake, Ph.D. (Lead) Mr. David Barnhart

Mr. Mitchell Burnside Clapp Lt Col John Losinski Mr. Jess Sponable

TTO Office Wide BAA Proposers’ Day

Space Systems legacy programs

1980 1990 2000 2010 2020

Global Low Orbiting Message Relay (GLOMR)

Pegasus

DARPASAT

Taurus

Falcon Small Launch Vehicle

MiTEX

Orbital Express (OE)

Space Surveillance Telescope (SST)

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Artist’s concept

1985 1995 2003 2007

1990 2006 Saturn V (F-1 engine)

1997 1957 2013

Space Systems current programs

Demonstrate a cost-effective way to increase the amount and quality of Space Situational Awareness (SSA) information critical to warfighters: purchase data rather than build and operate sensors

OrbitOutlook

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Develop technology to image a GEO satellite from the ground by utilizing fixed mobile telescopes, each with adaptive optics and a guide star, to create multiple baselines that can be used to reconstruct the image through an inverse Fourier transform

Galileo

Artist’s Concept

Develop an advanced ground-based optical system for rapid, wide-area, uncued detection and tracking of faint objects in deep space

Space Surveillance Telescope (SST)

Space Systems current programs (cont.)

ISR

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Airborne Launch Assist Space Access

(ALASA)

Deploy small satellites to orbit from an airborne platform, allowing performance improvement, reducing range costs, and flying more frequently, which drives cost per pound down

Upgrade Synchronized Position, Hold, Engage, and Reorient Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) with manipulator arms to support and upgrade the docking ports to reduce fuel consumption

International Space Station SPHERES Integrated Research Experiments

(InSPIRE)

Space Systems current programs (cont.)

ISR

Strike

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Phoenix

Develop technologies to harvest and re-use components from retired, nonworking satellites in GEO and demonstrate the ability to create new space systems at a greatly reduced cost

Artist’s Concept

Membrane Optic Imager Real- Time Exploitation (MOIRE)

Provide persistent tactical video coverage to the warfighter

Objective: Normalize and simplify space

Space Systems description

Today’s Environment Technical Goals

• Congested

• Contested

• Complex

• Costly

• Affordable routine access

• Reduce escalating systems cost

• New capability

• Survivability/resilience/ reconstitution/autonomy

• Disaggregation/simplification

• Indications- and warning-enabled Space Domain Awareness (SDA)

• Affordable and routine access through space:

• Runway-compatible, infrastructure-free point-to-point transport

• Extreme space mobility – Solar-electric and other revolutionary concepts

• Tactical missions and enabling technologies – Persistent LEO (500-10,000km)

• Modular satellite concepts for disaggregation or enhanced capability

• Sparse aperture communications to enable fiber-like bandwidth

• Novel low-size, -weight, and -payload (SWaP) for small satellite missions

• Awareness by utilization of current sensor systems in a data-for-fee model:

• Algorithms to support indications and warning of space events

• High phase-angle small object custody for continuous GEO tracking

Space Systems summary

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