precision timing and navigation - cde themed call launch 23 april 2013
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Presentations from CDE themed call launch event on 23 April 2013 - for full details of this call see: http://www.science.mod.uk/events/event_detail.aspx?eventid=201TRANSCRIPT
Precision Timing and Navigation
Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE)
Rapid technological change
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PRECISION TIMING AND
NAVIGATION
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Content
• Overview
• What we are looking for under this call
• What we are not looking for
• Potential exploitation routes – without commitment
• Concluding remarks
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Knowledge Exploitation & Innovation
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S&T Futures Programme
Intervention studies (CFD, Future Landscape,...)
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FutureWorlds™
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Overview • Potential to enhance existing, or enable new, defence
capabilities
• We require:
• to demonstrate innovative use of existing technologies to
achieve military benefit
• significant advances in technology
• to lay the foundations for longer term breakthroughs which
might realise disruptive military capabilities.
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Challenge 1: Rapidly exploitable and
innovative use of existing technologies
• New ways to exploit current devices and systems in
order to achieve a significant increase in capability.
• Consideration of how to overcome any barriers to
implementation (such as cost or supporting
infrastructure).
• We encourage leveraging tools and techniques from
other fields and industries.
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Challenge 2: Step changes in technologies that
could be exploited over a medium timescale
• Understand how limitations in size, weight and power
might be mitigated while achieving enhanced precision.
• Technologies and techniques that may be leveraged
could include:
– trapped atom / ion-based microwave clocks as an interim to all
optical atomic clocks
– novel laser sources (and fibres)
– miniature vacuum pumps
– novel frequency sources / local oscillators
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Challenge 3: Foundations for longer-term
breakthroughs
• Proposals for theoretical analyses or demonstrations of
basic physics welcomed provided novel and a ‘stepping
stone’ towards eventual defence and security application.
• Understand how an emerging technology could eventually
be harnessed for military or security applications in the
longer term. Design concepts on the cusp of the possible
are sought.
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Summary (challenges 1 to 3)
• For challenge 1 affordability and exploitation will heavily
influence the uptake of the technology; bidders are asked to
think about how offerings might be designed (from an early
stage) for manufacture (and / or high-volume production).
• For challenge 2 the key driver is enhanced precision over the
current state of the art.
• For challenge 3 the key driver is exploring the art of the possible
with respect to future defence and security needs.
NB For all challenges size, weight and power (SWaP) is a key driver.
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What we are not looking for
• Marginal improvements
• Solutions that offer no significant defence and security benefit
• Technology watch / horizon scanning
• Roadmaps or technology prediction (these will be addressed
elsewhere)
• Stellar navigation
• Terrain referenced navigation
• GNSS / GPS antenna arrays
• Optical / radar parameter flow navigation
• Data fusion across networks and / or platforms
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Potential exploitation routes
• Five Domains with particular initial exploitation routes:
o Land
o Maritime
o Air and weapons
o C4ISR
o Counter Terrorism
• Other Government Departments
• Research Councils
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Land
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Challenges include:
• lower-cost devices with improved performance characteristics
• upgrade of legacy equipment
Potential applications:
• synchronisation of man pack jammers (and other radiating equipment including unattended sensors)
• navigation within buildings and urban environments
• improved utilisation of bandwidth
• network synchronisation (ability to rapidly hop on / hop off the network)
• flexible networks (switch on / switch off nodes quickly – uplinks and downlinks)
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Air and weapons
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Challenges include
• technology that can be exploited across the whole portfolio of pipeline weapons
• to optimise the miniature atomic clock design to be robust across all weapon environments
• integrated precision navigation and timing device with favourable SWaP characteristics; for long-range missions (eg 300km) in absence of GNSS
Potential applications:
• protecting unencrypted radio frequency data
• faster acquisition of high-accuracy timing and navigation and communication signals in the field
• weapon data links, eg supporting common anti-air modular missile (CAMM)
• synchronisation and navigation for Future Long Range Cruise Missile (FLRCM ) and Compact weapons
• enhanced targeting
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C4ISR
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Challenges include:
• integration on platforms where SWaP is an issue:
– micro-satellites, high-altitude long-endurance (HALE), medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE)
– micro, mini, tactical unmanned air systems
Potential applications:
• synchronising disparate sources (including at long ranges)
• protecting unencrypted radio frequency data
• inter-platform time and frequency transfer
• improved control of unmanned air vehicles and sensor payload
• de-confliction of electromagnetic environment (enhanced interoperable systems)
• operating in GNSS (GPS) denied / degraded environments
• operating in harsh electromagnetic environments
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Counter Terrorism
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Challenges:
• lower-cost devices with improved performance characteristics
• safe, secure, resilient and robust systems (perhaps including built in redundancy)
Potential applications:
• remotely operated platforms, remote sensor and bomb disposal systems (deployed on unmanned ground and air vehicles)
• operating in harsh electromagnetic environments where intentional electromagnetic interference may be present
• improved cyber security / denial of systems to unauthorized users
• operating in GNSS-denied/degraded environments
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Maritime
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Challenges include:
• lower-cost devices with improved performance characteristics
• upgrade of legacy equipment and new developments
• precision synchronisation (intra and extra platform)
• long-duration underwater navigation
Potential applications –underwater:
• synchronisation of sonar arrays
• improved reliability underwater communications
• enhanced sonar source localisation
• improved control of unmanned underwater vehicles
Potential applications –above water:
• enhanced geo-location / direction finding
• precision geo-location of hostile radio emitters for electronic warfare
• enhanced electronic countermeasures
• synchronisation of communications and sensor suites
• enhanced interoperable systems, eg less chance of self interference
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Other Exploitation Routes
• Research Council
– Prospect for £2m Programme with Academia to start 2014/15
– Global Uncertainties
• Other Government Departments
– Participating in assessment of proposals
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Precise Timing and Navigation – 23 Apr 2013
GPS Roadmap for the MOD
Defence Equipment & Support - Air Platform Systems PT
Global Positioning System – Apr 2013
L2
1227.6 MHz
L1
1575.42 MHz
P(Y)-Code C/A-Code
P(Y)-Code
• GPS is MOD’s de-facto source of position, velocity and time information.
• GPS use is widespread: • Navigation, targeting, guidance, situational awareness, search and rescue, and synchronisation for communication systems.
• Higher level Defence functions (C4ISR) are fundamentally dependent upon GPS.
• MOD policy requires use of PPS (Military) GPS on operations.
Description:
24+ satellites
Medium Earth Orbit
Orbiting once every 12 hours
Services:
Standard Positioning Service (Civilian) – C/A Code
Precise Positioning Service (Military) – P(Y) Code
Performance
Space, Weight
and Power
Cost
Quantities
Trends for GPS Use in Military Applications
GPS - SPS
4 element
SAS – TRL 8
UBX-G5010
FORETREX 201
Defence Advanced
GPS Rx
GPS Receiver Application
Module Standard Electronic
Module type E
GRAM SEM-E Ground
Based-GPS
Receiver
Application
Module
GB-GRAM
Spectrum of Defence users High
Low
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Large Application Type Small
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Comparison of GPS Characteristics
PPS Military receivers:
Foundational level of resilience
to jamming
Known functionality in
operational environments
L Relatively high space and weight
L Relatively high power
consumption
L Crypto overheads
L Long procurement lead-times
SPS Civilian receivers:
L Very little resilience to jamming
L Unknown functionality in
operational environments
Relatively low space and weight
Relatively low power
consumption
No crypto overheads
Short procurement lead-times
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GPS – Vulnerability to Jamming
Satellite to GPS Receiver: ~11,000 NM
Satellite Power: nominally
tens of Watts
Jammer Power:
milliWatts to tens of kiloWatts
Jammer (on the
horizon) to the GPS
Receiver: ~20 NM
GPS Signal At the GPS Receiver -
0.0000000000000001 Watt
The Threat (Off the internet)
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Anti-jam Antenna Systems
GAS1 – TRL 9
CRPA - TRL
DACU - TRL
DACU - TRL
4 element
Mini GAS – TRL 3
2 element
Mini GAS – TRL 3
CRPA – TRL 9
7 element
ADAP – TRL 9
4 element
DACU
7-6000
TRL 9
TRL 7/8
Illu
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Performance
Space, Weight
and Power
Cost
Spectrum of Defence users High
Low
Large Application Type Small
Open Signal
GNSS
Anti-Jam Resilience – Schematic Diagram
Civilian
GPS
Navigation
Processor
Antenna
Control
Unit
(ACU)
Inertial
Measurement
Unit
Multi
Element
Antenna
(CRPA)
Position
Velocity
Time
Clocks
Military
GPS
Receiver (?)
L
K
Anticipated Future Receiver Characteristic Reqs
PPS Military receivers provide:
Foundational level of
resilience to jamming
Known functionality in
operational environments
L Relatively high space and weight
L Relatively high power
consumption
L Crypto overheads
L Long procurement times
SPS Civilian receivers provide:
L Little resilience to jamming
L Unknown functionality in
operational environments
Relatively low space and weight
Relatively low power
consumption
No crypto overheads
Short procurement times
For wide-ranging space, weight and power limited applications:
Tactical situational awareness, communications systems,
unmanned vehicles, smart munitions, etc
The Robust - Global Navigation System
• Assessment Phase (24-month duration) – Technology survey
– De-risk technologies for most likely technical solutions
– Capability exploitation study
– Operational Analysis
– System requirements definition
– Capability based competition (autumn ‘14, subject to funding availability) to advise a Business Case for Demonstration and Manufacture
MOD equipment projects (especially those facing space, weight
and lower limitations) need an acceptable alternative to highly
vulnerable commercial off the shelf civilian GPS receivers.
Without Commitment
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