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Squad X Core Technologies
Squad X Core Technologies
(SXCT)
MAJ Christopher Orlowski
Proposers Day
February 27, 2015
Topic
Speaker
0800 0900
Registration
0900 0915
0915 0935
0935 0955
0955 1015
1015 - 1035
Break
1035 1055
1055 1215
1215 1335
1335 1415
Opening Comments
Examples in this briefing (e.g., technologies, use cases) are chosen for ease
of illustration only and do not constitute endorsement of any particular
approach.
Why Squad X?
WWII Europe
Korea
Vietnam
Desert Storm
Afghanistan
Iraq
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Squad X Vision
Extend and enhance the situational awareness of the rifle squad
Provide small unit leaders with increased maneuver time and space
Enable rifle squads to shape and dominate their battlespace
Goals:
Enable echelons platoon and below to maneuver distributed, while maintaining
the ability to fight concentrated and mass effects
Provide small unit leaders increased maneuver time and space, in order to
allow them increased decision time and tactical flexibility
Principles:
Strategic
Operational
Tactical
Forces designed for linear,
conventional operations;
challenged to adapt and be
flexible across the range of
military operations
Squad X
Unmanned Air
Vehicles
Artists
Concept
Squad
Networked
Communications
End-user
Device/
SA applications
Unmanned Ground
Vehicles
Head-up display/
night-vision device
Power
Management
Artists
Concept
Artists
Concept
Common World
Model Management
Ground Sensors
Warfighter-Worn
Sensors
Artists Concept
Workshop goals:
Key takeaways:
A new program that seeks to develop and deliver new technologies that would:
Artists Concept
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Precision
Engagement
Non-Kinetic
Engagement
Squad Sensing
Enable the rifle squad to detect line of sight and nonline of sight threats out to 1000 meters while
maneuvering at a squad-relevant operational pace
Squad
Autonomy
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Squad
Leader
Fire
Team 1
Squad
Leader
Fire
Team 2
Team
Leader
Team
Leader
Grenadier
Fire
Team 1
Fire
Team 2
Fire
Team 3
Team
Leader/
Grenadier
Team
Leader/
Grenadier
Team
Leader/
Grenadier
Grenadier
Automatic
Rifleman
Automatic
Rifleman
Automatic
Rifleman
Automatic
Rifleman
Automatic
Rifleman
Asst. Auto.
Rifleman
Asst. Auto.
Rifleman
Asst. Auto.
Rifleman
Rifleman
Rifleman
Rifleman
Rifleman
Rifleman
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Marine and Army Rifle Squads do not possess organic capabilities to shape their
battlespace and deliver precision effects; they must rely on higher-echelon assets.
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Marine and Army Rifle Squads do not possess organic capabilities to shape their
battlespace and deliver precision effects; they must rely on higher-echelon assets.
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UAV
UAV
SXCT seeks to deliver organic capabilities to the Rifle Squad that would
enable them to shape their battlespace and deliver precision effects.
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Squad
Autonomy
UAV
UGV
UAV
UGV
UAV
UAV
SXCT seeks to deliver organic capabilities to the Rifle Squad that would
enable them to shape their battlespace and deliver precision effects.
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Squad
Autonomy
Squad
Sensing
UAV
UGV
UAV
UGV
UAV
UAV
SXCT seeks to deliver organic capabilities to the Rifle Squad that would
enable them to shape their battlespace and deliver precision effects.
DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A - Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited
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GPS
Squad
Sensing
UAV
UGV
UAV
UGV
UAV
UAV
SXCT seeks to deliver organic capabilities to the Rifle Squad that would
enable them to shape their battlespace and deliver precision effects.
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GPS
Squad
Sensing
Precision
Engagement
UAV
UGV
UAV
UGV
UAV
UAV
SXCT seeks to deliver organic capabilities to the Rifle Squad that would
enable them to shape their battlespace and deliver precision effects.
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Precision
Engagement
UAV
UAV
Squad
Sensing
UGV
UGV
GPS
UAV
UAV
SXCT seeks to deliver organic capabilities to the Rifle Squad that would
enable them to shape their battlespace and deliver precision effects.
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Picatinny
Rail
M320
Grenade
Launcher
Payoffs:
Challenges: Maneuverability, accuracy and control with cost and impulse constraints
Efficacy of launchable sensors with commercial off-the-shelf components
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Desired solutions:
Guided weapon technologies that enable the rifle squad to precisely engage
known non-line-of-sight threats in their battlespace
Examples: advanced 40mm grenade, micro-missile
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Accuracy:
Mass:
Recoil Energy:
2m CEP
1.0 kg
70 joules
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3d Robotics
The full objectives and scope of Technical Area 2 can be found in the BAAs classified addendum
Payoffs:
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2 m/s
< 900 g
< 500 cm3
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Raytheon BBN
Payoffs:
Kitware
JPL
Challenges: High accuracy and low false alarms over wide range of conditions
Low size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C)
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Desired solutions:
Sensing
Low-SWaP systems that can be carried by the manned or unmanned squad member
Novel means to identify and localize threats in the squads operational environment,
especially human threats
Sensor arrays that network the squads sensing
Directed sensors to eliminate the current sensing gap resulting from current rules of
engagement
Minimizing false alarms over realistic operating conditions
Exploitation
Novel exploitation techniques to classify threats in collected sensor data, especially
human threats
Methods that can perform within squad-level sensing and computing limitations
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Accuracy
Squad Movement Speed
Soldier SWaP Mass
Soldier SWaP Volume
0.9
2 m/s
< 350 g
< 200 cm3
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Squad-Relevant Behaviors
Thalmic Labs
Payoffs:
Thalmic Labs
Challenges: Accuracy and drift, over both time and distance, with SWaP-C constraints
Operational tempo in complex and dynamic environments
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Desired solutions:
Localization
Robotic Behaviors
Technologies that enable heterogeneous (ground and air) unmanned vehicles to perform
squad-level tasks as robotic team members
Execute preparative and reactive actions with equivalent autonomy to junior squad
members
Techniques should support operational speeds up to 4 m/s with sufficient mobility to
traverse cluttered urban and rolling open terrain
Ideally, proposed efforts will address all elements of this technical area
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Absolute position
Interventions
Soldier SWaP Mass
Soldier SWaP Volume
6m
0
< 350 g
< 200 cm3
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Efforts selected by
DARPA-SN-14-40
FY15
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q1
FY16
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q1
FY17
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q1
FY18
Q2
Q3
Q4
Squad X Studies
BAA Release
Concept Development
Efforts to be selected
by this BAA
(DARPA-BAA-15-26)
Phase 1
Technology Maturation
Kickoff
Phase 2
Experiments
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General Guidance
Demonstrations
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Teams may submit separate technical and cost proposals for each proposed
technical area
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The BAA, including its SCG, contains all information required to submit a
proposal for Technical Areas 1, 3, and 4.
The BAA, its SCG, and the Classified Addendum contain all information to
submit a proposal for Technical Area 2.
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Squad X Vision
Extend and enhance the situational awareness of the rifle squad
Provide small unit leaders with increased maneuver time and space
Enable rifle squads to shape and dominate their battlespace
Goals:
Enable echelons platoon and below to maneuver distributed, while maintaining
the ability to fight concentrated and mass effects
Provide small unit leaders increased maneuver time and space, in order to
allow them increased decision time and tactical flexibility
Principles:
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Questions
This will allow us to capture the Q&A portion for those not able to attend
Answers to the questions will be provided after lunch and posted to FBO.gov
FAQ
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www.darpa.mil
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