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Undersea Warfare Decision Support System (USW-DSS) is the Navy Program of Record Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Command and Control (C2) Net-Centric system supporting the warfighter. USW-DSS provides an integrated, near-real time, net-centric ASW Common Tactical Picture (CTP) and Common Operational Picture (COP) for the Carrier Strike Groups (CSGs). USW-DSS is a C2 capability identified in the ASW Initial Capabilities Document (ICD) for the Sea Combat Commander (SCC) and Theater USW Commander (TUSWC). USW-DSS enables effective planning and execution of USW operations, optimizes placement of sensors for exploitation of the environment, manages available resources, balances operations versus risk, and provides a clear vulnerability assessment of the operational environment. USW-DSS ensures safe operational and tactical C2 of submerged U.S. and allied submarines via Prevention of Mutual Interference (PMI) capability, and protects from blue-on-blue engagement with a Waterspace Management planning and execution tool. USW-DSS shortens C2 decision processes for detection-to-engagement across multiple platforms, including those with low-bandwidth communications or intermittent connectivity. Tactical data such as tracks, environmental, and sensor processing data is ingested into USW-DSS through platform specific interfaces such as the AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Surface Ship ASW Combat System, the Global Command and Control System - Maritime (GCCS-M), Link 16, and the AN/SQQ-34 Aircraft Carrier Tactical Support Center (CV-TSC). USW-DSS processes this and other tactical data and supports intelligent dissemination of the data to unit and theater-level platforms in support of an enhanced USW tactical picture. USW-DSS provides USW Commanders with an expanded, net-centric USW collaborative capability across CSG platforms (CVNs, DDGs, FFGs) as well as supporting shore nodes to include Commander Task Force (CTF), the Naval Oceanographic Processing Facility (NOPF), and Tactical Operations Center (TOC) and Maritime Operations Center (MOC). On afloat platforms, USW-DSS processing software is virtualized for portability and is hosted on the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) system and implements a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) with display generation and operator interfaces provided via USW-DSS hardware.

The Networked Architecture for Undersea Theater Integrated C2 Advantage (NAUTICA) project provides Theater Anti-Submarine Warfare (TASW) architecture development, systems engineering, and design. NAUTICA will identify requirements to integrate intelligence (operational and tactical) and sensor (national and organic) systems to provide a fully informed Naval Integrated Fires - Counter Undersea (N2CX) Common Operational Picture (COP) of enemy undersea forces, maximizing decision superiority and theater level planning, and address TASW C2. Using Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), NAUTICA decomposes warfighting requirements into system requirements allocated to existing Programs of Record or identified as new program requirements. Theater Undersea Warfare Operations Center's (TUSWOC) systems today are not integrated to support performance requirements during all threat levels. This results in failure to most effectively employ Theater USW assets. Near term, the Project will continue to accelerate development by rapidly prototyping the framework for existing legacy systems to be federated, to exchange key information and significantly improve existing TASW capability. NAUTICA will also establish a transition path for new USW technologies such as the Operational Planning Tool (OPT), Water Space Planner (WASP), Battlespace Management Tactical Decision Aid (BAM TDA), and other Future Naval Capabilities (FNCs) that will start to transition Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5/6 enabling technologies into the USW-DSS Program of Record. NAUTICA investments are prioritized in accordance with the Commander U.S. Fleet Forces endorsement of "Theater ASW Capability Requirements" letter (dated 24 February 2017) and Center for Security Forces (CSF) letter "Criticality of Sustaining Prevention of Mutual Interference (PMI) and Water Space Management (WSM) Capability and Meeting Emerging Requirements for Great Competition" submitted to OPNAV N2N6. The design of the integrated TASW battle management suite will include a system of systems TASW architecture to enable the existing programs of record under development from the Program Executive Office (PEO) for Integrated Warfare Systems (IWS), PEO Command, Controls, Communications, Computers and intelligence (C4I), PEO AIR, PEO Undersea Warfare Systems (UWS), and N9SP to exploit a common framework.