directed energy systems 2012: joseph skaja usaf
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This Briefing is:
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Headquarters Air Combat Command
Directed Energy Systems
Col Joseph “Haiji” Skaja
Chief, Combat Enabler Division
USAF, ACC/A8I
21 – 23 Feb 2012
Overview
• Threat
• ACC Core Functions – DE Needs
• Priorities – Development
• Desirements – Warfighter
• Challenges – Operational
• Strategy – Transition Capability
• Bringing it all together
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Impact of Red
Threat vs Blue Capability
NEAR – MID – FAR TERM
RED Air Superiority
IADS
Directed Energy
DE Limiting Factors
Requirements
Advocacy
Technology Solutions
Acquisition
T&E
Effects/Capability
Precision Engagement
INS
GPS
CID
TTPs
C4ISR
Threat Warning (AOC)
Data Link
Sensors
TTPs
Threat Warning
EW Jamming
Chaff/Flare
TTPs
LO
Protection
Capabilities at Risk
Electronic Attack
Passive/Active Sensors
A2AD
LO
Passive/Active Sensors
SAM & Aircraft C2
C4ISR/Doctrine
Long Range
Layered
Ground / Air LEL & HEL
Communications
LADAR
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Improved Blue Capability
to Red Threat
NEAR – MID – FAR TERM
RED Air Superiority
Electronic Attack
Passive/Active Sensors
A2AD
LO
IADS
Passive/Active Sensors
SAM & Aircraft C2
C4ISR/Doctrine
Long Range
Layered
Directed Energy
Ground / Air LEL & HEL
Communications
LADAR
DE Limiting Factors
Requirements
Advocacy
Technology Solutions
Acquisition
T&E
Effects/Capability
Precision Engagement
IR Sensors
Long Range CID
Weapons Hardening
C4ISR
Laser Communications
Stand-Off LADAR
Next Generation Sensors
Laser Threat Warning
Aircrew Laser Eye Protection
Aircraft Sensor Hardening
HEL for Aircraft Defense
Protection
DE Solutions?
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ACC Core Functions
Survivable
Advanced Sensors
Target Defeat
Data Transfer
Combat ID
Laser Communications IR/LADAR/CID Threat Warning Aircrew/Sensor Protection
Munitions Hardening Aircraft Defense Non-Kinetic Counter Electronic
Lead the
Discovery, Development
& Delivery of Directed Energy
Survivable
Advanced Sensors
Target Defeat
Data Transfer
Persistent ISR
Lethal / Non-Lethal
Survivable
Advanced Sensors
Threat Warning
Data Collection
Data Transfer
Survivable
Advanced Sensors
Dynamic Network
LPI/LPD
Survivable
Advanced Sensors
Combat ID
Situational Awareness
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Priorities – DE Development
• CSAF’s Vector: “Capitalize on improvements in Directed
Energy by moving out of the lab with lethal and non-
lethal, ultra precise, low collateral damage General Norton A. Schwartz; Aug 2010 Vector
Meet
Core Function
Needs Developing DE Strategy
Survivability
(kinetic &
non-kinetic
Situational
Awareness
Lethality
Programs
Threat
Warning
Defeat Threat
Sensors
Sensor / System
Hardening
Combat
ID
Advanced
Sensors
Offensive
/ Defensive
Defeat Surface
Targets
Defeat Airborne
Targets
Requirements
Risk
Concept of
Operations
Cost
Relevant
Demonstrations
Integration on
Platforms of
Interest
Size, Weight
& Power
Defeat Threat
Missiles
Laser
Communications
Network
Sharing
Tech Freeze
Dates
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Technology
Readiness
Warfighter Desirements
All Aspect
Form-Fit-Function
Short Duty Cycle
Deep Magazine RM&S
Auto-Retargeting
Short Dwell Times
Military Useful Ranges
Auto-Aimpoint
Predictive Avoidance
Ultra-Precise
Cost Effective
Significant Research and Development gains have made
“art of possible” very doable!
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Directed Energy Challenges
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- Key Areas of Interest
- Requires DE Strategy
- Timing Critical
- Fiscal Constraints
- Must Cooperate
- Must Do All
- Game Changing
- Intelligently Mature
- Near/Mid/Far Term
Red/Blue
Losses
Logistics
Modeling
Simulation
Analysis
Bomber
Fighter
RPA
Weather
Line of Sight
Winds
Detect/Track
Dwell
BDA
Materials
Thermal
Jitter
LoAC
Legal
Approval
SWaP
Testing
Integration
Operational Challenges CAMPAIGN
MISSION
MODELING
AIRCRAFT
PROPAGATION Kill Chain EFFECTS
POLICY
TECHNOLOGY
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COIL
Slab/Fiber
Gas (DPALS)
Wave Optic Code
HELEEOS
DALE
Adaptive Optics
Wavefront
Jitter
Aero-Mechanical
Aero-Optics
Flow Control
Materials
Fluence
Thermal
Mechanical
Development Challenges SOURCE
PROPAGATION
MODELS
BEAM
CONTROL/FIRE
CONTROL
AERO-OPTICS
EFFECTS
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Strategy
Military Utility
2025
Bomber sized
Aircraft
2025+
Fighter sized
Aircraft
- Design
- Pulse Power
- Antenna
- Pointing
- Demo
- Size
- Weight
- Power
- Aperture
- ATP
- Integration
- LADAR
- Combat ID
- Efficiency
- Effects
- Military Utility
- Slant Range
- Pointing
- Modeling
- Tech Readiness
- RM&S
- Design
- Power
- Beam Control
- Software
- Cooling
- Power
- Precision
- Laser Power
- Field of Regard
- Low Observable
- Duty Cycle
- Aperture Size
- Targets
- Counter Sensor
- Thermal Load
TECH
MATURITY
TECH
MATURITY
TIME TO MARKET
TECH
MATURITY
2012
CHAMP
2014
DLWS
2025
LASER/HPM
Transition
LASER
HPM
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Bu$ine$$ Ca$e
• Better technology is
just not enough
• Funding Challenges
• Recapitalization VS
Modernization
• Many competing
technologies for limited
$$$$
• We Must:
• Demonstrate a significant leap in capability or cost effectiveness
• Retain evolutionary development
• How do we do that?
• Modeling, simulation and analysis – give the quantitative results
• Wargames – showcase the capability and provide qualitative results
Generic Chart for Example
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Bringing It All Together
• Developing DE weapons/systems are a DoD priority
• Provide laboratories with clear prioritized ACC vision
• Develop concepts for intelligent technology integration
• Ensure DE meets offensive/defensive requirements
• Leverage joint community effort
• Keep senior leaders informed
• Demonstrate relevant effects
• Can’t afford to fall behind
• Ensure fiscal constraint
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We are Not DE Zealots but
Warfighter Advocates!
Directed Energy Must Offer a
Compelling Argument!
Summary
• Threat
• ACC Core Functions – DE Needs
• Priorities – Development
• Desirements – Warfighter
• Challenges – Operational
• Strategy – Transition Capability
• Bringing it all together
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Backup
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