Unmanned Experts Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: AF203-001

Description

BLUF: Air Commons™ - Swarm takes command tasking, integrates mission-critical planning factors, and generates a ‘Swarm ATO’ with resource allocation, asset-to-target matching, force management and mission control, allowing swarm commanders and tacticians to deploy and control overwhelming autonomous air power inside of the enemy’s OODA loop. The deployment of swarming assets is the next DoD Offset Strategy. War-winners will need to harness the tactical surprise that hundreds of highly automated aircraft can provide to maintain information dominance and air superiority. In Phase I, SWORmBAT® uniquely developed the ‘left of launch’, ‘CAOC-in-a-Container’ approach to answer: “How many, of what type, when and for how long? It rapidly became apparent that these questions were part of a ‘Bigger Play’ to ensure successful swarm deployment. That larger program is the basis of this proposal under the working title Air Commons™ - Swarm. Once again, this RDT&E project is back-boned on the Air Commons™ Deployable Unmanned Traffic Management (D-UTM) system that was developed for unmanned Disaster Response and  Contingency Operations and is central to SWORmBAT® operations. This spiral will design and build a “Swarm Engine” to take the mission-dictated resource and planning model from SWORmBAT®, translate the recommended assets, SCLs, launch and Relief-on-Station schedules, and directly deploy the swarm squadrons on mission. The end result of this program will be a Pre-Production Prototype of a swarm planning, management and control system: Air Commons™ - Swarm.