Dan Malatesta, PMS 408 program manager at Naval Sea Systems Command, said his office has been working with the Defense Innovation Unit, an organization designed to reach out to nontraditional vendors, to add more AI and machine learning to minesweeping systems. “Not only do we need things that are able to go out and autonomously run tracks, or search and ID or neutralize, we've got to be able to get this to a point where the planning and evaluation is taken out of our hands and is actually done autonomously,” he added.Ĭapt.
The minesweeping community is looking for industry’s help to detect mines buried on the seafloor as well as mines placed at lower depths, Taylor said.Īnother need is autonomous planning and evaluation, he said. That concept has been demonstrated but “we need to make that a more regular piece of equipment for the warfighter,” Taylor said. Taylor said AI and machine learning technologies will be key to detecting, characterizing and neutralizing mines “at the speed of the fleet.”Īutomatic target recognition technologies will be a key enabler for unmanned systems going forward, he said.Īnother technology is “single sortie detect-to-engage” surface vehicles that find and identify a mine, then deploy a Barracuda expendable underwater semi-autonomous vehicle to deploy a charge and destroy the weapon. somewhat different?” he asked at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Virtual Expeditionary Warfare Conference.Īs the military as a whole moves toward more autonomous and unmanned systems, the minesweeping community is no different. So the question I pose to industry is: are we going to continue doing in the same way or can we look at innovation and doing it. Samuel Taylor, program executive office for unmanned systems and small combatants’ senior warfare leader, said, “We are always looking to reduce time and risk. Many of the Navy’s legacy systems are “a little long in the tooth,” Lee Agin, program executive office for mine warfare at NAVSEA, said Feb. Naval Sea Systems Command is looking to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to help it more quickly find, identify and neutralize underwater mines. USS Ardent (MCM 12) Decommissioned Aug.A mine-neutralizing vehicle is lowered into the water during a minesweeping operation aboard the Avenger-class minesweeper USS Patriot. The ships are of fiberglass sheathed, wooden hull construction. They are also capable of conventional sweeping measures. These ships use sonar and video systems, cable cutters and a mine detonating device that can be released and detonated by remote control.
There remain 11 MCMs in current service to the fleet. Guardian (MCM 5) was stricken from service in 2013. Avenger (MCM 1) was decommissioned on September 30, 2014. The vital importance of a state-of-the-art mine countermeasures force was strongly underscored in the Persian Gulf during the eight years of the Iran-Iraq war and in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 19.Īvenger class ships are designed as mine sweepers/hunter-killers capable of finding, classifying and destroying moored and bottom mines. Navy began development of a new mine countermeasures (MCM) force, which included two new classes of ships and minesweeping helicopters. Ships designed to clear mines from vital waterways.
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