Fiscal Year	2014
Division	Research & Sponsored Programs
Department	Naval Research Program
Investigator(s)	Howard, Alan R.
Sponsor	NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary	The proposed effort outlines a capability engineering study that addresses a future capability and concept in the context of relevant Joint capability areas. The specific objectives of this study include: - Analyze and assess capabilities for offensive swarming unmanned aerial systems to identify near-term capabilities and inform decisions to address gaps in swarm technologies as well as swarm tactics. This work leverages agent-based simulation to discover mission- and system-level trade spaces, such as swarm element capabilities, swarm size, and swarm agent autonomy; - Develop a Swarm UAS Concept of Operations for relevant swarm-enabled reference missions, including offensive swarm attack. This task includes study of existing saturation or swarm attack threats to identify potential vulnerabilities of swarm unmanned systems and to explore counter-swarm tactics; - Explore implications of swarm unmanned systems warfare for technological investment and tactics development, including cost-benefit analyses and assessment, to survey and guide investments in concept generation, technology research and development, and field experimentation and concept demonstration; - Investigate swarm-counterswam concepts employing unmanned systems to identify gaps in adversarial modeling, technological maturity, and infrastructure needs (e.g., personnel, materiel) to support swarm operations.
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