Review of ONR's uninhabited combat air vehicles program / Committee for the Review of ONR's Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicles Program, Naval Studies Board ; Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naval Studies Board Staff, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Naval Studies Board. Committee for the Review of ONR's Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicles Program.

National Research Council (U.S.). Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications.

Series:

Compass series.

Compass series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armored vehicles, Military.

Naval research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 46 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

ONR's uninhabited combat air vehicles program

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Joint Vision 20101 addresses the need for achieving military dominance through the application of new operational concepts. For the Department of the Navy, future operational concepts will hinge on a continuance of forward yet unobtrusive presence and the capability to influence events ashore as required. This capability will be enabled by the development and insertion into the forces of new technologies for providing command, control, and surveillance; battlespace dominance; power projection; and force sustainment. For example, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently proven to be valuable operational platforms for providing tactical intelligence by surveillance of the battlefield. To support naval force objectives, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has established a research program within the Strike Technology Division (Code 351) of the Naval Expeditionary Warfare Science and Technology Department aimed at expanding the operational capabilities of UAVs to include not only surveillance and reconnaissance, but strike and logistics missions as well. This new class of autonomous vehicles, known as uninhabited combat air vehicles (UCAVs), is foreseen as being intelligent, recoverable, and highly maneuverable in support of future naval operations. Review of ONR'S Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicles Program evaluates ONR's UCAV technology activities, including its vision documents and its science and technology roadmap (in areas of vehicle dynamics, communications, sensors, and autonomous agents) against criteria that would be selected by the committee, such as the relevance for meeting future naval priorities, the cost and time scale for its utilization, duplication of effort, and scientific and technical quality.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Study Overview""; ""2 Assessment of the ONR 351 UAV/UCAV Program""; ""3 Integration with Other Related Department of the Navy and Department of Defense Efforts""; ""A Committee Biographies""; ""B Terms of Reference""; ""C Acronyms and Abbreviations""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780309183857

0309183855

9780309516020

0309516021

OCLC:

923256361