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1 Introduction
Pages 6-10

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... , the submarine-launched mobile mine, and the ASROC antisubmarine rocketpropelled torpedo launched vertically from a surface ship, as well as strike weapons such as the Tomahawk missile, launched from a submerged submarine. At the sponsor's request and with the concurrence of the Committee for Undersea Weapons Science and Technology, this assessment focused on that 6
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From page 7...
... In deeper littoral waters, the Cold War-type challenges of quiet submarines and torpedo counter-countermeasures remain. In shallow littoral waters, the ASW problem is even more complex and difficult because of the available countermeasures, the environment, and the stealthiness and small size of undersea diesel-electric submarines, all of which challenge the performance of the Navy's undersea detection and weapons systems.
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From page 8...
... To meet these new challenges, future undersea weapons will need to have significantly improved characteristics, including reduced size to permit more weapons on platforms; reduced acquisition and life-cycle costs; longer shelf life; better deep- and shallow-water and counter-countermeasures performance; greater endurance; flexible speed control; stealth; lethality; and, for urgent-attack weapons, shorter reaction times. Technology advances toward these improved characteristics are grouped into the following areas: undersea warheads and explosives; energy conversion and propulsion; guidance and control; hydrodynamics, especially of high-speed supercavitating weapons; undersea warheads and explosives; simulation end testing; modular systems integration; and ship torpedo defense systems.
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From page 9...
... As the manager of the Department of the Navy Science and Technology Program, the Office of Naval Research will continue to ensure that the portfolio includes the best available mix of investment partners and research performers. And since our ultimate shareholders are sailors and Mannes, the return on investment we look for in Naval science and technology is not profits, but capabilities.3 He described the mission of ONR as follows: ONR is the "front-end" of the acquisition pipeline.
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From page 10...
... Future Naval Capabilities Fiscal Guidance - Information Memorandum, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations angle, The Pentagon, Washington, D.C., November 23, 1999. Outside the S&T program, platform-related acquisition programs, e.g., submarines and DD-21, can also affect the Navy undersea warfare funding structure.
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Key Terms

  • national naval
  • antisubmarine warfare
  • naval operations
  • marine corps
  • improved characteristics

  • master plan
  • weapons science
  • undersea warheads
  • future naval
  • littoral waters

  • naval capabilities
  • onr undersea
  • historically placed
  • developmental schedule
  • navy undersea

  • continuing united
  • naval science
  • provides cover
  • antisurface warfare
  • faster developmental

  • broad context
  • technology insertions
  • radiation directly
  • surface ship
  • major motive

  • shorter reaction
  • maintaining united
  • reduced acquisition
  • supporting future
  • flexible speed


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