Transcript DARPA Tactical Technology Office

DARPA Tactical Technology Office
38th IFPA-Fletcher Conference
on National Security Strategy and Policy
Air, Space, and Cyberspace Power in the 21st-Century
January 20-21, 2010
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Dave Neyland
Tactical Technology Office, Director
What Makes DARPA Unique…
Formed in 1958
DARPA’s mission is to maintain
technological superiority of the
U.S. military and prevent
technological surprise from
harming our national security.
On October
4, 1957
earth’s first
artificial
satellite was
launched
into orbit by
the Soviet
Union; four
months
ahead of the
first U.S.
satellite.
• Understand needs through Senior
Leadership relationships and direct
interface with Combatant
Commands, Major Commands,
Product Centers, etc
A160
2001
Global Hawk
1998
Pegasus 1990
X-29 1984
Have Blue 1979
• Push technology for advanced
capabilities and new paradigms
ARPANET 1974
• Work with planners to incorporate
new capabilities into ops thinking
TRANSIT 1963
Typically DARPA spends 3-5 years developing a prototype(s) to prove technical capability
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TTO Thrust Areas
Technology Thrust Areas
Advanced Weapons
Capability Thrust Areas
Persistent
ISR
How do we prosecute time
sensitive targets and
decisively respond across
the full range of armed
conflict to engage
challenges at global
distances, while remaining
survivable across all
spectrums?
Advanced Space Systems
Advanced Platforms
[Engagement]
Effects
What technologies will remove adversary
sanctuary and enable us extraordinary
battlespace awareness in all domains to
provide timely situation awareness in an
access denied environment?
Logistics
How do we rapidly project and
sustain combat and stability
capability worldwide in a wide
variety of environments while
reducing the end-to-end
logistics burden and increase
the versatility, agility, and
efficiency of military operations?
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Weapons Systems
Platforms
Space Systems
Advanced Weapons Systems
Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM)
• Current anti-ship missiles are dependent on
supporting ISR, precision targeting, network data
links, and GPS systems
• LRASM de-risks those dependencies by
demonstrating a weapon system that organically
executes precision anti-ship engagements
Hypersonics Flight Demonstration (HyFly)
• Design, build, and flight demo a full-scale
hypersonic air-breathing strike missile
• ~ 600 nm in 10 minutes, Mach 3.5-6
• Current operations involve manned aircraft
loitering in theater with short range subsonic/low
supersonic weapons
Triple Target Terminator (T3)
• High-speed, long-range missile
• Engage counter air, counter cruise missile and
Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses (DEAD) targets
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Weapons Systems
Platforms
Space Systems
High Energy Liquid Laser Area
Defense System (HELLADS)
Program Objectives
• Develop a High Energy Laser
(HEL) weapon system with an
order of magnitude reduction in
system weight & volume
Technical Approach
• Diode-Pumped Laser that
combines the high energy density
of a solid state laser with the
efficient thermal management of a
liquid laser
Military Utility
• Enables efficient integration of
a 150 kW laser onto tactical
platforms
• Requires only electrical power
and air to operate
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Weapons Systems
Platforms
Space Systems
Advanced Platforms
A160
Achieve long fixed-wing like endurances with
vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capability
Big Dog
Demonstrate a quadruped that can traverse terrain
relevant to dismounted infantry maneuver while
carrying initial squad loads
WASP / Shrike
Develop and demonstrate ISR micro air vehicles
(less than 1 lb gross weight) capable of: VTOL and
electro-optical (EO) surveillance for small combat
units
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Weapons Systems
Platforms
Space Systems
Global Hawk Autonomous Aerial
Refueling Demonstration
Program Objectives
• Demonstrate 1st fully autonomous aerial refueling
(AAR) between two unmanned aircraft systems
• Expand trade space for high altitude long
endurance & unmanned CONOPS, and ISR AoAs
Technical Approach
• Expand AAR envelop for high altitude, low
speed operations
• Develop “push” probe & drogue refueling
and IR sensor augmentation for night
operations “plug”
Military Utility
• Creates new unmanned aerial tanker &
receiver refueling capability
Tanker in Trail
• CONOPs enabler of next generation
ISR/bomber/strike aircraft and confident
employment of air refueling advantages
Global Hawk - Fully Autonomous aerial refueling
Receiver in Lead
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Weapons Systems
Platforms
Space Systems
Formation Flight
Program Objectives
• Demonstrate aerodynamic benefits of formation flight with
transport aircraft and achieve 10% drag reduction or better
• Develop, integrate, and ground test software for sensing and
control strategy algorithms
Technical Approach
• Perform “dirty” air tests to assess structural excitation and
engine inlet distortion as a function of position
• Utilize the existing C-17 Formation Flight System (FFS) to
provide coarse control and autopilot inputs
• Develop the control algorithms and plant model to enable
robust control schemes for autonomous formation flight
Military Utility
• Enhance fuel savings and payload capability; reduced drag and
time for mission closure
• Extends range and capability of existing aircraft fleet for rapid
transport of time-critical payloads
Demonstrate aerodynamic drag
reduction in formation flight
Formation Flight may increase range/payload capacity of the CURRENT Fleet
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Weapons Systems
Platforms
Space Systems
Space Operations Support
Space Surveillance Telescope (SST)
Demonstrate a telescope system capable of rapid
uncued search, detection, and tracking of small, dim
objects in orbit
Orbital Express (OE)
Demonstrate autonomous, robotic, on-orbit servicing
enhances space capabilities for national security
while maintaining affordability and robustness
Atlas V
(STP-1)
NextSat (Ball)
ASTRO Servicing
Satellite
(Boeing)
System F6
A monolithic spacecraft is replaced by a cluster of
heterogeneous, free-flying modules
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Weapons Systems
Platforms
Space Systems
What’s Next?
Traditional systems designed through structured composition methods
can be explicitly designed to avoid unpredictable emergent behaviors
DARPA/TTO is currently investing in novel
methods for design and verification of
complex aerospace systems
Key Tenets:
– Defining metrics of complexity to enable cybervs-physical implementation trades
– Structured design flows employing hierarchical
abstraction and model-based composition of
electromechanical and software components
– Building component and manufacturing model
libraries
– Generating probabilistic “certificates of
correctness” for cyber-physical systems
Goal: demonstrate a 5X compression in
development time for complex aerospace systems
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How TTO Stays Connected
• AFSPC
• Space Innovation & Development Center
• Army SMDC
• CSAF
• DIA
• Joint Functional Component Command, Space
• Missile Defense Agency
• National Reconnaissance Office
• National Security Space Office
• SMC/CC, XR, SY
• Space Program Protection Office
• SPAWAR PEO Space Systems
• STRATCOM
• USD(I)
• USD(P)
• VCJCS
• JROC
• CNO
• CSA
• PEOs
• SAF/USA
• SecArmy
• ComSubForLant
• DoD Surgeons General
• PSA Winter Roundtable Symposium
• AFSOC
• NM Congressional Delegation
• DUSD A&L
• SecNav
• CNO
• White House
• JRTC
• Congressional Staffer Briefing
• NAVSEA
• JIEDDO
• OT&E
• AMC
• SOLIC
• SASC Staffer Briefing
• PACOM
• SAF-AQL
• AIAA
• CNO SSG
• AFRL
• DOE
• PACAF
• OSD Air Platforms Rotary Wing
• USASSOC
• JPL
• OSD Treaty Discussion
• PCAS Conference
• AT&L
• Secretary of Defense
• SOCOM
• OMB
• Under Secretary of Defense,
Technical Collection and Analysis
• Air Force Flight Test Center
• SSC-LANT
• SOCOM
• NGIA
• USN
• JCOS
Listen to what they say…then imagine a better solution…
…than they even know they need.
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