Unmanned Ground Vehicles

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USMC UGV Program Brief
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UGVs and Marine Corps Operations

• Joint 1992 Study, UGVs Uses for the USMC and
  USA identified
• 49 MAGTF Deficiencies With Potential UGV
  application.
• Validated detailed UGV Concepts of Employment.
• MOUT Operations Decoy and Deception
• Obstacle Breaching Remote Obscurant
  Delivery
• NBC Recon Mobile Chemical Delivery
• RSTA Communications Relay
• Direct Fire
• Study currently being updated (ONR Funded).

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Mission Need Statement

• Need for a remotely operated ground system that
  is directly responsive to the commander at the
  battalion level or below.
• Function of UGV is to provide commanders
  flexibility by augmenting RSTA assets.
• Follow-on mission modules will be capable of
• patrolling
• chemical vapor detection
• communications relay
• remotely dispensing obscurants
• support MOUT operations

• decoy and deception
• communications relay
• signal intelligence
• electronic warfare

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Mission Need Statement

• Platform can be either a vehicle already in
  service or one small enough to be carried on
  current vehicles.
• System must be capable of operating in
• rain, snow, ice, and salt spray.
• mud, sand, and all soil types.
• capable of fording shallow streams, swamps, and
  marshes.
• be decontaminable with existing decontaminants.
• System must be capable of moving at a speed
  commensurate to the unit it supports.

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Purpose of the Gladiator

• Remote combat tasks, thereby minimizing risk to
  individual Marines by eliminating or reducing
  their exposure to enemy fires.
• Enhance the ability of commanders to rapidly
  detect, identify, locate, and neutralize a
  variety of threats to include enemy force
  activity, chemical and biological agents, and
  impassable terrain or unusable routes.
• Provide real-time combat information to tactical
  commanders, thus providing them with additional
  time and space to effectively make decisions and
  execute plans to maximize the effects of combat
  power upon decisive enemy vulnerabilities.

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Summary
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Gladiator Roles

• The primary function will be to provide unmanned
  scouting/surveillance capabilities.
• Employ the Joint Service Light Standoff Chemical
  Agent Detection System (JSLSCADS) and the
  Anti-Personnel/Obstacle Breaching System (APOBS).
  
• Future mission modules
• reconnaissance, surveillance, and target
  acquisition (RSTA)
• obscurant delivery
• direct fire (lethal and non-lethal)
• tactical deception (electronic and acoustic)
• counter sniper employment
• communications relay
• engineer reconnaissance

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APOBS
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APOBS
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JSLSCAD

• Detects, Identifies, and Reports Nerve, Blister
  and Blood Agent Vapors.
• Detects Vapors at Distances of 5Km.
• Rejects Common Battlespace Interferents.
• Operates While On-The-Move.
• Ruggedized to Survive in a Battlefield
  Environment.

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Vehicle Loading Concept

• No HMMWV Modifications Lightweight Loading
  Ramp Deployable By One Marine

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Mission Essential Functions

• Possess battlefield mobility capable of
  supporting dismounted units in all environments
  and terrain, including MOUT rubble.
• Provide day/night remote visual acuity equal to
  that of an individual Marine using current I2
  devices.
• Remain operable when impacted by 7.62 mm small
  arms rounds (AK-47) at zero standoff distance.
• Be modular in design and incorporate standard
  interfaces for attachment of future Mission
  Payload Modules.

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Operational Requirements
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Gladiator Concept Of Employment
Surveillance

BLT OBJ 1
JSLSCAD
ATF
OBJ
A
MAGTF Cmd Element and Follow-on Echelon
Scouting
APOBS
ME

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Wpns
SE
ATF
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POM 02 AAO
Basic Gladiator Model
Inf Bn 2 LAV Co 1 Engr Co 1
JSLSCAD Model
Inf Reg 1 Arty Reg 1 Tank Bn 1 LAR Bn 1 AAV
Bn 1 Recon Bn 1 Combat Eng Bn 1 Div HQ 1 MEF
HQ 1
Total AAO Numbers
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POM 02 Investment
Order of Buy
Cost- Benefit
PRL
IPEG
2 thru 102
Cut line
28 add ons
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POM 02 Investment
Funding Cut Line
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Requirement Officers Explaining What They Want
USMC
DARPA
JPO
ARL
AFRL
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Requirements Analysis
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Gladiator Program Schedule
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Wearable Operator Control Unit

• Marine Corps Phase I Completed SBIR Project.
• Approved for Phase II.
• Objective
• Design a practical operator control unit (OCU)
  for small UGV systems that will have minimal
  impact upon the load carried by Marines. The
  wearable OCU will allow the operator to remain
  free to perform other battle tasks while
  operating the UGV system.

From this...
to this and beyond.
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Future Naval Capabilities

• Organic Mine Countermeasures
• Littoral ASW
• Time Critical Strike
• Autonomous Operations
• Decision Support
• Total Ownership Cost
• Missile Defense
• Platform Protection
• Information Distribution
• Expeditionary Logistics
• Warfighter Protection
• Capable Manpower

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AO Vision

• Enhance the mission capability of Naval Forces
  by developing technologies that will dramatically
  increase the autonomy, performance and
  affordability of Naval organic unmanned vehicle
  systems.

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Enabling Capabilities

• Provide all-condition access (range, endurance,
  response, and survivability) to the area of
  responsibility through organic unmanned systems
  that can be dynamically retasked to perform
  reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition,
  target designation, tactical oceanography, and
  battle damage assessment.
• Enable automated surveillance and reconnaissance
  in all environmental conditions through the use
  of miniaturized, low energy sensors/payloads in
  unmanned systems.
• Enable automated surveillance and reconnaissance
  data processing, including sensor data fusion, to
  provide combat ID, automatic recognition, target
  discrimination and onboard platform decision
  making and to reduce operator/ user workload.
• Enable secure, jam-resistant network centric
  warfare at extended ranges via data relay and
  sensor to shooter to weapon connectivity.
  Minimize human intervention via automated
  platform operating functions and enable
  manned/unmanned platform operations and
  interoperability.
• Minimize human intervention via automated
  platform operating functions and enable
  manned/unmanned platform operations and
  interoperability.

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Product Description Pursue Parallel Efforts
Under AO FNC

• OSD/ONR Currently Funding a Requirements Analysis
  and Demonstration Platform (FY00-01).
• Near-term Fielding/Transition Opportunity.
• Supports Existing MNS/ORD.
• Dismounted Infantry Asset Supporting Tactical
  Commanders.
• Rugged, Survivable, Multi-Mission Chassis.
• Mid/Far-Term Fielding/Transition.
• Fleet Operational Need Statement Exists.
• Future MNS/ORD Candidate.
• Provides Extensive Battlefield Situational
  Awareness.
• Dispersed Sensors/Information Management.

Gladiator
Mini/Micro RSTA UGV
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Technologies

• Day/Night Mobility
• Survivability/Durability/Self-Protection
• Signature Reduction
• Mission Planning/Module Integration
• Semi-Autonomous Mission Operations
• UAV/UGV Integration
• RSTA Sensors and Modular Sensor Heads
• NLOS Communications
• Family of Optimized Vehicles
• Operational Command and Control
• Clandestine Insertion/Extraction

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UGV Demonstration/Transition Plan
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Auto Ops FNC Tech.Development Vehicles,
Sensors, Communications
Program Definition
Tactical Unmanned Vehicle (TUV-Med)
Gladiator Resource Sponsor LtCol R. LeVan
UGV-JPO Micro/Mini RSTA
P3I Mission Modules
Surrogate User Eval
Field Contingency Sys
Gen II Fielding
Gen I Fielding
OSD/ONR Funded
Field Cont. Sys
ORD
MNS
FONS
Gen I Fielding
Ultimate Warrior
Capable Warrior
Millennium Warrior
MCWL Experiments
Cyber Warrior
Coalition Warrior
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Funding
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Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle
Technology Demonstration/Transition Schedule
TECHNOLOGY
DEMONSTRATIONS
- RSTA
- Day/night Mobility
- Semi-autonomy (driving)
- Improved OCU
- Cross-country Mobility
- Survivability
- Low Cost Sensor Suite
- Exterior MOUT
Recon
- Self Protection
- Mobile Scout/surveillance
- C4I Interoperability
- JSLSCAD Mission
- Marinization
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- Semi-autonomy (mission)
- Autonomous
Ops
- APOBS Mission
- Unattended sensor drop
- Reduced Signature
- Weapons Module
- UGV/UAV
Interoperation
- NLOS
Comm
- Mission Planning
- Long-range Comm
FY 02
FY 03
FY 04
FY 05
FY 06
FY 07
Fielded
Surrogate User
Gladiator Fielding
Gen II Systems
Gladiator P3I
Contingency Systems
Evals
Mission Module
Unmanned Basic Scout/Day Surveillance
Unmanned System Operation
Autonomous Scouting/RSTA
CAPABILITY
DEMONSTRATIONS
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Micro RSTA Unmanned Ground Vehicle
Technology Demonstration/Transition Schedule
TECHNOLOGY
DEMONSTRATIONS
- RSTA Integration
- Day/night Mobility
- RSTA
- C4I Interoperability
- Navigation
- Improved OCU
- Modular Sensors
- Clandestine Technology
- Low Cost Sensor Suite
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Multi-Functional Sensors
- Cooperative Behavior
- Propulsion
- OTH Communications
- Power Density
- Autonomous
Ops
- NLOS
Comm
- Survivability
- Semi-Autonomous Autonomous
- System Configuration
FY 02
FY 03
FY 04
FY 05
FY 06
FY 07
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Field Contingency
System Fielding
Mission Need
Surrogate User Evals
Approved ORD
Systems
Statement
Autonomous RSTA
Clandestine Insertion and Extraction
Operational Command and Control
CAPABILITY
DEMONSTRATIONS
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Questions?
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Point of Contact

• Robert Parks
• [phone]
• DSN 278-6209
• parksrs_at_mccdc.usmc.mil