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OCT 2017 DISTRIBUTION A. Approved for public release: distribution unlimited.

SSC Pacific C4ISR for Unmanned Systems

Mike Tall UxS Capability Portfolio Manager

OCT 2017


SSC Pacific: Organization (as of 1 Oct 17)

CAPT Kurt Rothenhaus, CO Ms Carmela Keeney, ED

XO – CAPT Andrew Gainer

Technical Director Lee Zimmerman

CAPT Mel Yokoyama CO

Mr. Bill Bonwit ED

Finance Tom Modica

Legal Eric Flores

Contracting Sharon Pritchard

Corporate Ops Jack Cabana

C2 / Enterprise Engineering

Vacant*

ISR Lynn Collins*

* SSTM: Senior Scientific and Technical Manager

Guam Japan

Program & Project Mgmt Joe Adan

Cyber / S&T Dr. Stephen Russell

Pacific C4ISR CDR Remil Capili

Alan Umeda

Communications / Networks Susie Hartzog*

Logistics & Fleet Support Mavis Machniak

Battlespace Awareness (BA)

Bryan Tollefson

Decision Superiority (DS)

Vacant

Integrated Cyber Operations (ICO)

Mari Garcia-Reynante

Transport and Computing

Infrastructure (TCI) James Reed

Production, Installation, & In-Service Support (PII)

Jamie Schlosser

Business and Force Support (BFS)

Linda Kusumoto

Discovery and Invention (D&I)

Dr. Dimitris Tsintikidis

Business Portfolios Executive Portfolio Manager Tom Tiernan

UxS Portfolio Mike Tall


SSC Pacific UxS History

Triton UAV - 2001 UGVs – 1980s

Free Swimmer AUV - 1985

MK18 UUV – Early 2000s


Unmanned Systems at SSC Pacific

▼ UxS C4ISR for all 4 domains of 40+ active robotic projects

− Advanced Autonomy − Human Machine Teaming − Sensor Fusion − Communications − Payloads − Operational T&E − S&T Research

▼ Location allows us to leverage test ranges in all domains.

▼ Expert Personnel 500+ government scientists and

engineers 50+ years in unmanned systems

Bayside

Topside

Seaside


UxS Facilities

TRANSDEC Bayside NAF El Centro

San Clemente Island Silver Strand Training Complex Seaside


Navy Strategic Guidance – Go FAST! “Fundamentally, the world has become dramatically more globalized, and this trend is accelerating.”

“The pace at which potential competitors are moving demands that we, in turn, increase The speed at which we act. Our advantage is shrinking – we must start today and we must improve faster.”

“We need a new, faster way to align, allocate and accelerate scientific discoveries to naval programs of record and deployment as new capabilities.”

ALIGN – ALLOCATE - ACCELERATE


SPAWAR Strategic Objectives

Accelerate and Streamline Delivery

Drive Cyber Resiliency

Optimize our Organization, Operations, and Workforce


Inform Model through Experimentation

UCS MDE Model

Interface Design

Description

Software

Context Design Prototype Demonstrate Mature

▼ Reference Implementation Validates and informs the architecture through demonstration

▼ Tool Development UCS-MDE model and Neya’s UxSDK Generate DDS IDL to generate source code for backbone Generate LaTeX files to produce IDD


UxS Simulators


SPAWAR Strategic Objectives

Accelerate and Streamline Delivery

Drive Cyber Resiliency

Optimize our Organization, Operations, and Workforce


Sharing and processing data

▼ Networked Attached Storage Solution (NAS) Facilitates the sharing of

large amounts of data.

▼ NVIDIA DGX-1 Processing for large

amounts of data


UXS TECHNOLOGY SSC Pacific


Software Defined Acoustic Modem

▼ Implement and test new and advanced ACOMMS algorithms

▼ Hardware and Software Patent U.S. Navy Case No. 103087

Stationary ambient acoustic noise ▼ Allows the communicator to

freely choose signal band to meet range requirements

▼ Does not permit intercept detection performance beyond that of in-band energy detection.

▼ Solves very near-range interceptor problem

Dusan Radosevic [email protected]


EgoMotion Background – Motion Detection

Static Camera Active Camera

Dr. Josh Harguess [email protected]


Industry teaming (S2ME2)

Oceanaero Submaran

SSC Pacific UAV


UUV Mine Detection Littoral Interdiction AI Planning Tools

Human-Autonomy Teaming • To team with an autonomous agent, a human

must influence the agent’s goal-based decision-making (planning) process

• Analyze and evaluate state of the art planning algorithms, modeling methods as applied to naval-relevant scenarios

• Relax an assumption and reevaluate algorithms • Improve algorithm performance by incorporating

human intelligence into the planning algorithm

Dr. Leah Kelley [email protected]

Human User Interface

UUV Agent’s perceived reward over search region


Previous VIP/COIN .RMF Planning Neptune Mission Planning

MK18 UUV Autonomy


Summary

▼ Expertise to Develop, Integrate, Test, and Evaluate Unmanned Systems technologies from Basic Research to Operations.

▼ Currently implementing common themes from UxS Roadmaps and 3rd offset strategy. Basic and applied research with Machine Learning & Human

Machine Teaming Contested environment work with advanced algorithms,

payloads, and perception. Cross domain C4 + Cyber ISR UxS work


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