Unmanned aircraft systems roadmap : 2005-2030 / Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

United States. Department of Defense

United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of Defense--Planning.

United States.

United States. Department of Defense.

Drone aircraft--United States.

Drone aircraft.

Military planning--United States.

Military planning.

Planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([214] pages) : illustrations (some color)

Other Title:

UAS roadmap 2005

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Dept. of Defense, [2005]

Summary:

This document presents the Department of Defense's (DoD) roadmap for developing and employing unmanned aircraft systems over the next 25 years (2005 to 2030). It describes the missions identified by theater warfighters to which systems could be applied, and couples them to emerging capabilities to conduct these missions. A series of Moore's Law-style trends are developed to forecast technological growth over this period in the key areas of propulsion, sensor, data link, and information processing capabilities. The result is a roadmap of capability enhancing opportunities plotted against the life spans of current and projected UAVs. It is a map of opportunities, not point designs - a descriptive, not a prescriptive, future for UAVs.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Current UAS

3. Requirements

4. Technologies

5. Operations

6. Roadmap

Appendices: A. Missions

B. Sensors

C. Communications

D. Technologies

E. Interoperability standards

F. Airspace

G. Task, post, process, and use considerations

H. Reliability

I. Homeland security

J. Unmanned ground vehicles

K. Survivability.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (DTIC website, viewed Jul. 8, 2020).

OCLC:

61280700