Saturday 28 December 2013

[wanabidii] Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap

Executive Summary 
Unmanned systems continue to deliver new and enhanced battlefield capabilities to the 
warfighter. While the demand for unmanned systems continues unabated today, a number of 
factors will influence unmanned program development in the future. Three primary forces are 
driving the Department of Defense's (DoD) approach in planning for and developing unmanned 
systems. 
1. Combat operations in Southwest Asia have demonstrated the military utility of unmanned 
systems on today's battlefields and have resulted in the expeditious integration of 
unmanned technologies into the joint force structure. However, the systems and 
technologies currently fielded to fulfill today's urgent operational needs must be further 
expanded (as described in this Roadmap) and appropriately integrated into Military 
Department programs of record (POR) to achieve the levels of effectiveness, efficiency, 
affordability, commonality, interoperability, integration, and other key parameters needed 
to meet future operational requirements. 
2. Downward economic forces will continue to constrain Military Department budgets for 
the foreseeable future. Achieving affordable and cost-effective technical solutions is 
imperative in this fiscally constrained environment. 
3. The changing national security environment poses unique challenges. A strategic shift in 
national security to the Asia-Pacific Theater presents different operational considerations 
based on environment and potential adversary capabilities that may require unmanned 
systems to operate in anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) areas where freedom to operate is 
contested. Similarly, any reallocation of unmanned assets to support other combatant 
commanders (CCDRs) entails its own set of unique challenges, which will likely require 
unmanned systems to operate in more complex environments involving weather, terrain, 
distance, and airspace while necessitating extensive coordination with allies and host 
nations. 
The combination of these primary forces requires further innovative technical solutions 
that are effective yet affordable for program development. 
The purpose of this Roadmap is to articulate a vision and strategy for the continued 
development, production, test, training, operation, and sustainment of unmanned systems 
technology across DoD. This "Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap" establishes a 
technological vision for the next 25 years and outlines actions and technologies for DoD and 
industry to pursue to intelligently and affordably align with this vision. The Roadmap articulates 
this vision and strategy in eight chapters


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