COUNTER-UXS ENERGY AND OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS
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Authors
Behling, Jason A.
Fuentes, Fernando
Mannings, Larry D.
Morgan, Golda R.
Schinowsky, Jonathan T.
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Concept of Operations; CONOPS; unmanned aerial vehicle; UAV; Model-Based Systems Engineering; MBSE; cyber attack; Counter Unmanned Aircraft System; C-UAS; small Unmanned Aircraft System; sUAS; modeling and simulation; M&S; Unmanned System; UxS; Counter Unmanned System; C-UxS; mission engineering; ME; Department of Defense Architecture Framework; DoDAF; tactics
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and procedures; TTPs; agent-based modeling; ABM; energy optimization
techniques
and procedures; TTPs; agent-based modeling; ABM; energy optimization
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White, Corina L.
Van Bossuyt, Douglas L.
Hale, Britta
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2022-12
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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At present, there exists a prioritization of identifying novel and innovative approaches to managing the small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) threat. The near-future sUAS threat to U.S. forces and infrastructure indicates that current Counter-UAS (C-UAS) capabilities and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) need to evolve to pace the threat. An alternative approach utilizes a networked squadron of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) designed for sUAS threat interdiction. This approach leverages high performance and Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) conformance to create less expensive, but more capable, C-UAS devices to augment existing capabilities.
This capstone report documents efforts to develop C-UAS technologies to reduce energy consumption and collaterally disruptive signal footprint while maintaining operational effectiveness. This project utilized Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) techniques to explore and assess these technologies within a mission context. A Concept of Operations was developed to provide the C-UAS Operational Concept. Operational analysis led to development of operational scenarios to define the System of Systems (SoS) concept, operating conditions, and required system capabilities. Resource architecture was developed to define the functional behaviors and system performance characteristics for C-UAS technologies. Lastly, a modeling and simulation (M&S) tool was developed to evaluate mission scenarios for C-UAS.
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