directed energy systems 2012: joseph skaja usaf

This Briefing is:

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Headquarters Air Combat Command

Directed Energy Systems

Col Joseph “Haiji” Skaja

Chief, Combat Enabler Division

USAF, ACC/A8I

21 – 23 Feb 2012

Overview

• Threat

• ACC Core Functions – DE Needs

• Priorities – Development

• Desirements – Warfighter

• Challenges – Operational

• Strategy – Transition Capability

• Bringing it all together

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Impact of Red

Threat vs Blue Capability

NEAR – MID – FAR TERM

RED Air Superiority

IADS

Directed Energy

DE Limiting Factors

Requirements

Advocacy

Technology Solutions

Acquisition

T&E

Effects/Capability

Precision Engagement

INS

GPS

CID

TTPs

C4ISR

Threat Warning (AOC)

Data Link

Sensors

TTPs

Threat Warning

EW Jamming

Chaff/Flare

TTPs

LO

Protection

Capabilities at Risk

Electronic Attack

Passive/Active Sensors

A2AD

LO

Passive/Active Sensors

SAM & Aircraft C2

C4ISR/Doctrine

Long Range

Layered

Ground / Air LEL & HEL

Communications

LADAR

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Improved Blue Capability

to Red Threat

NEAR – MID – FAR TERM

RED Air Superiority

Electronic Attack

Passive/Active Sensors

A2AD

LO

IADS

Passive/Active Sensors

SAM & Aircraft C2

C4ISR/Doctrine

Long Range

Layered

Directed Energy

Ground / Air LEL & HEL

Communications

LADAR

DE Limiting Factors

Requirements

Advocacy

Technology Solutions

Acquisition

T&E

Effects/Capability

Precision Engagement

IR Sensors

Long Range CID

Weapons Hardening

C4ISR

Laser Communications

Stand-Off LADAR

Next Generation Sensors

Laser Threat Warning

Aircrew Laser Eye Protection

Aircraft Sensor Hardening

HEL for Aircraft Defense

Protection

DE Solutions?

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ACC Core Functions

Survivable

Advanced Sensors

Target Defeat

Data Transfer

Combat ID

Laser Communications IR/LADAR/CID Threat Warning Aircrew/Sensor Protection

Munitions Hardening Aircraft Defense Non-Kinetic Counter Electronic

Lead the

Discovery, Development

& Delivery of Directed Energy

Survivable

Advanced Sensors

Target Defeat

Data Transfer

Persistent ISR

Lethal / Non-Lethal

Survivable

Advanced Sensors

Threat Warning

Data Collection

Data Transfer

Survivable

Advanced Sensors

Dynamic Network

LPI/LPD

Survivable

Advanced Sensors

Combat ID

Situational Awareness

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Priorities – DE Development

• CSAF’s Vector: “Capitalize on improvements in Directed

Energy by moving out of the lab with lethal and non-

lethal, ultra precise, low collateral damage General Norton A. Schwartz; Aug 2010 Vector

Meet

Core Function

Needs Developing DE Strategy

Survivability

(kinetic &

non-kinetic

Situational

Awareness

Lethality

Programs

Threat

Warning

Defeat Threat

Sensors

Sensor / System

Hardening

Combat

ID

Advanced

Sensors

Offensive

/ Defensive

Defeat Surface

Targets

Defeat Airborne

Targets

Requirements

Risk

Concept of

Operations

Cost

Relevant

Demonstrations

Integration on

Platforms of

Interest

Size, Weight

& Power

Defeat Threat

Missiles

Laser

Communications

Network

Sharing

Tech Freeze

Dates

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Technology

Readiness

Warfighter Desirements

All Aspect

Form-Fit-Function

Short Duty Cycle

Deep Magazine RM&S

Auto-Retargeting

Short Dwell Times

Military Useful Ranges

Auto-Aimpoint

Predictive Avoidance

Ultra-Precise

Cost Effective

Significant Research and Development gains have made

“art of possible” very doable!

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Directed Energy Challenges

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- Key Areas of Interest

- Requires DE Strategy

- Timing Critical

- Fiscal Constraints

- Must Cooperate

- Must Do All

- Game Changing

- Intelligently Mature

- Near/Mid/Far Term

Red/Blue

Losses

Logistics

Modeling

Simulation

Analysis

Bomber

Fighter

RPA

Weather

Line of Sight

Winds

Detect/Track

Dwell

BDA

Materials

Thermal

Jitter

LoAC

Legal

Approval

SWaP

Testing

Integration

Operational Challenges CAMPAIGN

MISSION

MODELING

AIRCRAFT

PROPAGATION Kill Chain EFFECTS

POLICY

TECHNOLOGY

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COIL

Slab/Fiber

Gas (DPALS)

Wave Optic Code

HELEEOS

DALE

Adaptive Optics

Wavefront

Jitter

Aero-Mechanical

Aero-Optics

Flow Control

Materials

Fluence

Thermal

Mechanical

Development Challenges SOURCE

PROPAGATION

MODELS

BEAM

CONTROL/FIRE

CONTROL

AERO-OPTICS

EFFECTS

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Strategy

Military Utility

2025

Bomber sized

Aircraft

2025+

Fighter sized

Aircraft

- Design

- Pulse Power

- Antenna

- Pointing

- Demo

- Size

- Weight

- Power

- Aperture

- ATP

- Integration

- LADAR

- Combat ID

- Efficiency

- Effects

- Military Utility

- Slant Range

- Pointing

- Modeling

- Tech Readiness

- RM&S

- Design

- Power

- Beam Control

- Software

- Cooling

- Power

- Precision

- Laser Power

- Field of Regard

- Low Observable

- Duty Cycle

- Aperture Size

- Targets

- Counter Sensor

- Thermal Load

TECH

MATURITY

TECH

MATURITY

TIME TO MARKET

TECH

MATURITY

2012

CHAMP

2014

DLWS

2025

LASER/HPM

Transition

LASER

HPM

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Bu$ine$$ Ca$e

• Better technology is

just not enough

• Funding Challenges

• Recapitalization VS

Modernization

• Many competing

technologies for limited

$$$$

• We Must:

• Demonstrate a significant leap in capability or cost effectiveness

• Retain evolutionary development

• How do we do that?

• Modeling, simulation and analysis – give the quantitative results

• Wargames – showcase the capability and provide qualitative results

Generic Chart for Example

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Bringing It All Together

• Developing DE weapons/systems are a DoD priority

• Provide laboratories with clear prioritized ACC vision

• Develop concepts for intelligent technology integration

• Ensure DE meets offensive/defensive requirements

• Leverage joint community effort

• Keep senior leaders informed

• Demonstrate relevant effects

• Can’t afford to fall behind

• Ensure fiscal constraint

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We are Not DE Zealots but

Warfighter Advocates!

Directed Energy Must Offer a

Compelling Argument!

Summary

• Threat

• ACC Core Functions – DE Needs

• Priorities – Development

• Desirements – Warfighter

• Challenges – Operational

• Strategy – Transition Capability

• Bringing it all together

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