In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, Mike Campbell describes his progression toward bankruptcy as happening “gradually, and then suddenly.”Hemingway may have been portraying financial troubles, but the same might be
In Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises, Mike Campbell describes his progression toward bankruptcy as happening “gradually, and then suddenly.”
Hemingway may have been portraying financial troubles, but the same might be said for the evolution of undersea warfare. What began years ago as broad, visionary concepts of operation (CONOPS) has given way to a rapid proliferation of increasingly capable autonomous systems. The next phase is now underway: moving from a collection of concepts and technologies toward integrated, distributed kill chains. The following vignettes illustrate how these emerging architectures might come together across five mission sets.
ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE (ASW)
A maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) arrives on station. Scattered throughout the region are littoral battlespace sensing gliders (LBS-Gs) providing updated environmental data to characterize the sound velocity profile and improve acoustic detection and localization. Ten nautical miles away, a high-endurance XL- AUV towing a passive acoustic array patrols a known submarine transit route, while five hundred meters below, a distributed wireless network of seabed acoustic nodes listens in the frigid darkness. A contact is detected and classified. The network transmits data via burst acoustic communications (ACOMMS) disguised as ambient noise, which is received by comms-enabled sonobuoys deployed by the MPA. Rather
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