Marine Corps PEO LS Advanced Technology Investment Plan 2017
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2017 PEO LS Advanced Technology Investment Plan | i THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK 2017 PEO LS Advanced Technology Investment Plan | ii THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK PROGRAM EXECUTIVE OFFICER LAND SYSTEMS MARINE CORPS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT PLAN 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS i. Executive Summary ii. Bottom Line Up Front iii. Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction pg. 1 2.0 S&T Collaboration and Engagement pg. 5 3.0 Futures pg. 17 4.0 Top Technical Issues pg. 29 5.0 PEO LS S&T Focus Areas pg. 31 5.1 Power and Energy pg. 33 5.1.1 Fuel Efficiency pg. 33 5.1.2 Intelligent Power and Thermal Management pg. 36 5.2 Survivability and Mobility pg. 41 5.2.1 Survivability pg. 41 5.2.1.1 Fuel Containment/Fire Suppression pg. 45 5.2.1.2 Safety pg. 45 5.2.2 Mobility pg. 46 5.2.2.1 Crew Visibility pg. 47 5.2.2.2 Corrosion pg. 48 5.2.2.3 Autonomy pg. 48 5.2.2.4 Weight Reduction pg. 51 5.3 Modeling and Simulation pg. 59 5.4 Open Plug-and-Play Communication Architecture pg. 65 6.0 Warfare Centers pg. 71 7.0 MCWL/DARPA Efforts pg.9 8 8.0 PEO LS Programs pg.7 9 8.1 Assault Amphibious Vehicle pg. 101 8.2 Amphibious Combat Vehicle Phase 1 Increment 1 pg. 109 8.3 Common Aviation Command and Control System pg. 117 8.4 Ground Based Air Defense pg. 125 8.5 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar pg. 133 8.6 Joint Light Tactical Vehicle pg. 139 8.7 Logistics Vehicle Systems Replacement pg. 147 8.8 Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement pg. 157 8.9 M-ATV/Cougar/Buffalo pg.7 16 8.10 Lightweight 155mm Howitzer pg. 177 9.0 S&T Venue List pg. 183 2017 PEO LS Advanced Technology Investment Plan | iii THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Section 1.0 INTRODUCTION “We must capitalize on innovation that realizes how to leverage the capabilities of all new systems ….at a pace that maintains the advantage over our adversaries.” —General Robert B. Neller, 37th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps In this eighth edition of the Program Executive Commandant, General Robert B. Neller, clearly Officer Land Systems (PEO LS) Advanced states that the Marine Corps will pursue Technology Investment Plan (ATIP), the top technologies that enhance our warfighting technical issues for each program are identified capabilities through Manned Unmanned and prioritized within the organization. The Teaming (MUMT), such as unmanned goal of this ATIP is to inform, influence and aerial systems (UAS) and robotics, artificial align Science and Technology investments intelligence, and autonomous technologies that to help resolve technical issues, transition provide tactical and operational advantage. advanced technology and to bring greater PEO LS is looking for innovative solutions and capability to the warfighter as rapidly as game-changing technologies that will empower possible. The methodology used to develop the our Marine Corps to be dominant in defending ATIP is the focused and repeatable Concept our nation on the future battlefields. to Capability process (depicted in figure 2.1). This process is designed to encourage Published annually, the PEO LS ATIP is much communication from the early stages of more than an information source for the concept development, throughout the process PEO LS technology efforts. It is a catalyst for and culminating in delivered capability. The opening communication and collaboration key to this process is stakeholder engagement between “3 Circle” partners (Combat Developer, within the S&T enterprise, industry, and Materiel Developer, and the S&T Developer) academia. The concept developer must and to other DoD and Non-DoD organizations. understand the ‘realm of the possible’ This year’s ATIP was developed in direct when it comes to developing concepts and collaboration with the Office of Naval Research requirements. Once developed, requirements (ONR), Army Tank Automotive Research, become the backbone of program capabilities. Development and Engineering Center Together, these efforts support the ultimate (TARDEC), Defense Advanced Research Projects transition of critical and affordable capabilities Agency (DARPA), Marine Corps Warfighting to the warfighter. Lab (MCWL), Naval Warfare Centers and other government agencies. The ATIP is published This year’s ATIP theme is Autonomy. The as an open-source document to increase the Commandants Planning Guidance 2015, probability that it is shared and to allow those written by the former Commandant, General outside DoD to propose solutions that might Joseph F. Dunford Jr, and amended in FRAGO otherwise be missed. 01/2016, Advanced to Contact, by the current 2017 PEO LS Advanced Technology Investment Plan | 1 As today’s fiscally austere budgets continue to PEO LS Organization decrease, the Marine Corps must continue to find ways to procure the best equipment for Program Executive Officer Land Systems— the defense of our nation. The publication of located at historic Hospital Point, Building 2210, the PEO LS ATIP is intended to find ways to Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia—is the enhance our warfighter’s capabilities by: Corps’ first Program Executive Office. PEO LS is a separate command that reports directly 1. Identifying and defining the top technical to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for challenges that must be resolved within Research Development and Acquisition (ASN each program, some of which remain (RDA)). PEO Land Systems’ integral relationship consistent from year to year. These with the Marine Corps Systems Command challenges are vetted and are advertised (MCSC) leverages infrastructure, competencies, in the ATIP to alert and assist industry and and technical authority. The mission of PEO government regarding the S&T needs of LS is to meet warfighter needs by devoting major ACAT programs within PEO LS. full-time attention to Marines Corps weapon 2. Resolving capability gaps and technical systems acquisition, while partnering with issues by identifying and publishing the MCSC to develop, deliver, and provide life- technical challenges, PEO LS is delivering cycle planning for all assigned programs. input and assistance to the S&T enterprise, Figure 1-1 illustrates the current organization industry, and academia. of Program Executive Officer Land Systems. 3. Informing, influencing, and aligning S&T PEO LS is responsible for managing multiple investment by identifying the S&T needs Acquisition Category (ACAT) I, II, III & IV of PEO LS and supporting the technology programs, which are critical to the support insertion and transition into Programs of of the warfighter. These programs include: Record. the Marine Corps’ #1 ground program, the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV); the The overall technology requirements for PEO Assault Amphibious Vehicle (AAV7A1); the LS programs remain consistent from previous Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV); the Mine years and are as follows: Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) family of vehicles; the Common Aviation Command Ϣ Reliable and efficient electrical power and Control System (CAC2S); the Ground generation to supply energy for our modern Based Air Defense (GBAD); the Ground/ force. Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR); the Ϣ Increased survivability while maintaining Lightweight 155 M777 Howitzer; the Medium mobility. Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR); and the Logistics Vehicle System Replacement Ϣ Government-owned and operated (LVSR). The monetary value of these programs modeling and simulation capability that can across the Future Years Defense Program accurately predict cost and performance of (FYDP) is approximately $8 billion. systems. Ϣ Open plug-and-play communications architecture in Marine Corps vehicles. 2 | 2017 PEO LS Advanced Technology Investment Plan Figure 1-1. Program Executive Officer Land Systems Organization 2017 PEO LS Advanced Technology Investment Plan | 3 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK 4 | 2017 PEO LS Advanced Technology Investment Plan Section 2.0 S&T COLLABORATION AND ENGAGEMENT Concept-to-Capability Process Campaign Plan, and the Commandants Planning Guidance; the capstone concepts for The Concept–to–Capability process, the future Marine Corps. The next step in the depicted in Figure 2-1, provides the Program process entails developing an understanding of Executive Officer Land Systems (PEO LS) warfighter concepts and the core capabilities with a focused and repeatable process that required to enable those concepts. It is also has proven essential for facilitating effective critical to develop an understanding of the top- interaction with Science and Technology (S&T) level strategic and operational service issues stakeholders within the S&T Community. that rely on materiel solutions for resolution, such as: re-honing the expeditionary edge, The PEO LS Concept-to-Capability process reducing the sustainment footprint, fuel begins with an in-depth understanding of, saving across the Marine Air-Ground Task and alignment to, the overarching concepts Force (MAGTF), lightening the MAGTF identified in Expeditionary Force 21, Marine load, and reducing the MAGTF footprint. Corps Service Strategy, Marine Corps Service Figure 2-1. PEO LS Concept to Capability Process 2017 PEO LS Advanced Technology Investment Plan | 5 Once the operational concepts and capabilities representatives to better inform requirements are understood, an analysis is performed by and to provide the “best value” S&T investment each of the individual programs to identify the and transition of gap-closing technologies to a Marine Corps’ capabilities and technology gaps. POR. These capabilities and gaps are categorized in the Marine Corps Capabilities List (MCCL) S&T investment is one of the earliest steps in and Marine Corps Gap List (MCGL), as well the process of properly equipping the future as in the Marine Corps Solutions Planning force and when applied correctly, it will result Directive and the Capability Investment Plan. in a well-balanced Marine Corps, postured for the future with upgrades to their existing The S&T Objectives (STOs) are matched “legacy systems” as well as new state-of-the- to the technology issue identified by the art equipment.