Submarine Umbilical
US Positioning Group has a contract with the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, for “Wireless Power and Communications Umbilical for Weapons Systems.”
The project involves developing a wireless communications and power transfer link between submarine combat control systems and missiles inside submarine launch tubes. The work is sponsored by the Navy’s Strategic Systems Office and is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award.
To execute this project, US Positioning has developed a wireless link between the submarine missiles and control systems to benefit system reliability, safety, and eliminate some important weapon loading issues. USP’s approach is based on electromagnetic induction.
USP is nearly the end of the Phase I effort and has been invited to submit a $750,000 (with $500,000 options) Phase II proposal. The Phase II program will develop a prototype and demonstrate a robust wireless communications and power transfer link between a submarine fire control system and encapsulated weapons loaded in submarine launch tubes. In the Phase I effort, it was demonstrated that the electromagnetic induction link was feasible for both power and communications between a launch control system and an encapsulated weapon.
Specifically, the Phase II SBIR research project will result the development and demonstration of the concept using advanced prototypes and demonstration with a TACMS simulation system. As in the Phase I effort, USP will continue to use finite element analysis and communications modeling for engineering design effort. This will be followed by laboratory and bench-top hardware testing. The results of this effort can be used to begin actual SSGN implementation design efforts.
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