ONR - Large USV Market Survey
The first two Large Unmanned Surface Vessels the Navy plans to purchase in fiscal year 2020 will be procured from the Strategic Capabilities Office's Overlord program, while the remaining eight will be a new design based on market research, a Navy spokesman told Inside Defense 14 March 2019.
Section 1045 "Limitation on Availability of Funds for Unmanned Surface Vehicles" of the FY19 HASC NDAA Committee Report would limit the availability of funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act, or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2019, until the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering certified the Strategic Capabilities Office Ghost Fleet Overlord Unmanned Surface Vehicle program to the congressional defense committees. The Senate receded with an amendment that would eliminate the certification requirement to change the contracting officer and only limit 50 percent of funds made available for the ghost fleet overlord unmanned surface vehicle program until the certification is submitted.
None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2019 for the Department of Defense for the strategic capabilities office ghost fleet overlord unmanned surface vehicle progTam may be obligated or ex8 pendecl until the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, in coordination with the Secretary of the Navy, certifies to the congressional defense committees that (1) such project accelerates development of the future unmanned surface vehicle program of the Navy; (2) the Commander of the Naval Sea Systems Command has been designated as the contracting of17 ficer for such project; and (3) the desired procurement strategy for the ghost fleet overlord project is pro1uerly coordinated and not duplicative of the unmanned surface vehicle sea hunter program of the Navy.
The Large Unmanned Surface Vehicle (Large USV) Sources Sought/Request for Information Solicitation Number: N00024-17-6306(2) Sources Sought/Request for Information (RFI) notice was issued 23 May 2017 by the Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Program Executive Office (PEO) Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), Unmanned Maritime Systems Program Office (PMS 406) on behalf of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO). SCO is partnering with the Navy to conduct market research in accordance with FAR Part 10 to determine if sources exist that are capable of satisfying the anticipated program requirement for independently deploying Large Unmanned Surface Vehicles (Large USVs). OSD SCO was taking an accelerated approach with industry to leverage existing, manned or unmanned surface ship designs that can be designed and/or modified to rapidly deliver an unmanned or optionally manned surface ship capability.
In accordance with 10 U.S.C. Section 7309, no major component of the hull or superstructure of the Large USV may be constructed in a foreign shipyard. To support Navy mission requirements, key attributes of Large USVs include higher top speed, extended vessel range and cruising speed, and high reliability.
The Sources Sought/RFI notice Large Unmanned Surface Vessel (LUSV) Sources Sought/Request For Information Solicitation Number: N00024-19-6314(1) was issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Program Executive Office (PEO) Unmanned and Small Combatants (USC), Unmanned Maritime Systems Program Office (PMS 406). The Navy is conducting market research in accordance with FAR Part 10 to determine if sources exist that are capable of satisfying the Navy's anticipated program requirement for Large Unmanned Surface Vessels (LUSV). The complete Sources Sought/RFI posting contains controlled technical data that cannot be posted to Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website and will only be made available to U.S. Department of Defense contractors.
The Navy anticipates that testing of large unmanned surface vehicles in the Southern California portion of the Hawaii-Southern California Training and Testing [HSTT] Study Area would occur up to approximately 300 at-sea days per year. Autonomous marine mammal detection technologies (also used for sea turtles) are being investigated, but it is assumed that these technologies may not be available for large unmanned surface vehicle testing in the timeframe covered by this analysis.
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