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Naval Undersea Warfare CenterDivision Newport

Approved for Public Release Distribution is Unlimited

Presentation to:

Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance (SENEDIA)

Defense Innovation Days

28 August 2018

Ronald A. Vien, SES Technical Director

NUWC Division Newport

Captain Michael R. Coughlin, USN Commanding Officer

NUWC Division Newport

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Navy’s Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority

Strengthen Naval Power

Achieve High Velocity Learning

Strengthen Navy Team

Expand and Strengthen Our Network of Partners

Drive a Culture of AffordabilityShape and Maintain Technical and Business Capabilities

Improve Cybersecurity in Products and Processes

Execute with Excellence

Continuously Build and Shape a Capable Workforce

NUWC Focus Areas

N AV Y N AV S E A N UWC

The ForceBehind the Fleet

We design, build, deliver, and

maintain ships and systems

on-time and on-cost for the

United States Navy

MISSION PRIORITIES

ON-TIME DELIVERY OF

SHIPS & SUBMARINES

CULTURE OF

AFFORDABILITY

CYBERSECURITY

PEOPLE

HIGH VELOCITYLEARNING

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We research, develop, test, evaluate, engineer, analyze, and deliver undersea warfare capabilities to expand United States Navy readiness

PEOPLE

Empower our diverse team of world-class professionals

PROCESS

Optimize speed, agility, and rigor of our technical and business processes

RESULTS

Ensure fleet readiness today and innovate for next

generation systems tomorrow

NUWC Division Newport

Undersea SuperiorityToday and Tomorrow

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People • Process • Results

Innovation from the Undersea Technology Perspective

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Education and Community Outreach

Naval Research

Enterprise

Internship

Program (NREIP)

Pathways

Elementary School Middle School High School College

Science Club

Sea Lab (Bristlebots

and Intro to

Underwater Vehicles)

New Bedford Whaling

Museum Program

(Introduction to

Waves)

For Inspiration &

Recognition of

Science and

Technology (FIRST)

Junior Lego League

FIRST Lego League

FIRST Tech Challenge

and Robotics

Competition

SeaPerch

Undersea Technology

Apprenticeship

Program (UTAP)

Annually: Bring a Child to Work Day

MathCounts

SeaPerch

FIRST Tech Challenge

and Lego League

Greenlight for Girls

SeaLab (Summer

Robotics)

Creating the STEM Pipeline

Erin Gauch

Yoni Corleto

Victoria Hathaway

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International SeaPerch Challenge

Elementary School Middle School High School College

Creating the STEM Pipeline

• Middle School and High School

• 200 Competing Teams came from as far away as New Zealand

• Competition at UMASS Dartmouth

• Challenge to maneuver through an obstacle course and lift objects

• Students began with baseline machines and modified within cost constraints to meet the challenge

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People • Process • Results

Innovation from the Undersea Technology Perspective

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Other Transaction Authority (OTA)

INNOVATION

PRODUCTS

PROTOTYPES

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Other Transaction Authority (OTA)

Undersea Technology Innovation ConsortiumJune 18, 2018

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People • Process • Results

Innovation from the Undersea Technology Perspective

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Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Systems VisionEnhanced Efficient Capabilities

Efficient, Executable Progression of Capabilities through Various UUV Systems

Large(Surface or Submarine Launch)

Extra Large(Pier Launch)

Medium(Surface or Submarine Launch)

Small(Man Portable) (Surface or Submarine Launch)

Key Enablers: Endurance, C3, Sensors

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Energy for Increased Endurance

Battery manufacturing process drives inherent hazard:

– Potential of latent internal short from foreign object (i.e., metal particles associated with manufacturing) can never be eliminated

Manufacture-driven hazard

Flammable/Explosive gases and fire

Integration of Li-Ion Technology aboard submarines is being achieved via Prevention/Detection/Mitigation

Prevent

▪ Propagation resistant battery architectures to mitigate against latent cell defects

▪ Ability to detect battery internal short before reaching critical stage

NEED:

SYSTEM CONCEPT: Couple hydrogen and oxygen source with proton exchange

(PEM) fuel cell to power UUV

GOAL: Enhance mission capability over Li-ion batteries (2X+)

Advanced Energy OpportunityOverall submarine

energy integration strategy

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Technology

• Direct conversion of thermal energy to acoustic energy via Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs)

• CNT thermoacoustic transducer (thermophone) possesses small form factor with broadband capability

SEAScout

Carbon Nanotubes

Thermophone

Electronics Section

ThermoAcoustic Transducer (Thermophone) in QinetiQ SEAScout UUV

Heat to sound with no mechanical movement!

Demonstration

• Collaboration between and industry partner QinetiQ North America

• The system will be demonstrated at ANTX 2018

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Bio-Inspired Sensing: Seal Whiskers

Seal whiskers present biological models for hydrodynamic detection

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) permit 14535doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0069872.g005

Surface structure of a California sea lion vibrissa

(top) and a harbor seal vibrissa (bottom).

CT scans of artificial vibrissae

Work collaboratively with partners / universities

Tech Evolution Water Tunnel

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Bats: Biology guiding Engineering

Can we reverse engineer bat sonar to develop a micro-aperture high-resolution imaging sonar?

Bio-Inspired Broadband Sonar

Bat Bio inspiredacoustic baffles

Biologically Inspired Sonar Array

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ICEX 2018

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Low Temperature Effects on Composite Materials

The structural and acoustic performance of advanced composite materials at the temperatures of arctic and deep depth seawater (-2°C) are not well understood.

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Linux Containers System Design

Linux container technology, a commercial and standards-based technology for software deployment, has the potential to make subsystem software modular and more readily testable and deployable.

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Machine Learning / Data Science

Machine

Learning

Supervised

LearningUnsupervised

Learning

Reinforcement

Learning

Clustering

Dimensionality

Reduction

Classification

Regression

Oceanographic

Prediction

Cybersecurity

Intrusion Detection

SONAR

Automatic

Target

Recognition

EW

Robotic Swarming

Red Tactics Generation

Vehicular Autonomy

Cybersecurity

Anomaly

Detection

Data Fusion

Operator

Sensemaking

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Expanding the Advantage: Cybersecurity

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Maritime Patrol Aircraft

P-3 Orion Shaanxi Y-8

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Transport Aircraft

C-5 Galaxy Xi'an Y-20

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Fighter Aircraft

Eurofighter Chengdu J-10

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Shipboard Surface-to-Air Missiles

RIM-116 FL-3000

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

MQ-9 Reaper Yilong

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Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles

X-47B Lijuan

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People • Process • Results

Innovation from the Undersea Technology Perspective

Advanced Naval Technology ExerciseHuman Machine Interaction

29 – 31 August

Advanced Naval Technology ExerciseHuman Machine Interaction

29 – 31 August

ANTX August 2017

Navy’s Design for Maintaining Maritime Superiority

Strengthen Naval Power

Achieve High Velocity Learning

Strengthen Navy Team

Expand and Strengthen Our Network of Partners

Drive a Culture of AffordabilityShape and Maintain Technical and Business Capabilities

Improve Cybersecurity in Products and Processes

Execute with Excellence

Continuously Build and Shape a Capable Workforce

NUWC Focus Areas

N AV Y N AV S E A N UWC

The ForceBehind the Fleet

We design, build, deliver, and

maintain ships and systems

on-time and on-cost for the

United States Navy

MISSION PRIORITIES

ON-TIME DELIVERY OF

SHIPS & SUBMARINES

CULTURE OF

AFFORDABILITY

CYBERSECURITY

PEOPLE

HIGH VELOCITYLEARNING

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We research, develop, test, evaluate, engineer, analyze, and deliver undersea warfare capabilities to expand United States Navy readiness

PEOPLE

Empower our diverse team of world-class professionals

PROCESS

Optimize speed, agility, and rigor of our technical and business processes

RESULTS

Ensure fleet readiness today and innovate for next

generation systems tomorrow

NUWC Division Newport

Undersea SuperiorityToday and Tomorrow