Capabilities Assessment Land Management and Coastal Zone Dynamics Workshop July 26-27, 2005 Tim Cox, NASA DFRC

Civil UAV Capabilities Assessment Need: Strategic funding of UAV technology portfolio to efficiently meet future, civil UAV capability requirements. Goal: Develop a Civil UAV Capability Assessment (2015) –Primary customer: Sub-Orbital Science Program (Yuhas) –Complement DOD roadmap –Homeland Security, Commercial, Land Management, Earth Science considered –Broad assessment vetted with participating agencies Objectives : –Document future missions of civil UAVs based on user defined needs –Document the technologies necessary to support those missions –Discuss SOA of those technologies, identifying those in progress, those planned, and those for which no current plans exist –Provide foundations for a comprehensive civil UAV roadmap

Civil UAV Capabilities Assessment, cont’d Status: –Initial draft version available via web-site: –Information sources for initial draft based primarily on: Sub-orbital Science Missions of the Future Workshop (Earth Science) personal interviews: U.S. Coast Guard, U. S. Forest Service, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, University of Hawaii Dept. of Oceanography –Recently completed workshops: Sensor / Power and Propulsion Department of Homeland Security

Civil UAV Capabilities Assessment, cont’d Future activity –August, 2005 => incorporate Homeland Security, Land Management and Coastal Zone Dynamics information into document –August / September, 2005 => begin detailed technical gap analysis –March, 2006 => version 1 published and secure interagency commitment –October, 2006 => to include commercial perspective, refine technical gap analysis FY04FY05FY06FY07FY08FY09FY10 Initial Version Major Update Minor Update

Summary of Findings 35 Missions –Earth Sciences –Firefighting Missions –Wildlife Management Capabilities and Technologies –21 Basic Technologies and Capabilities –Cross-referenced to Mission Support –Economic Benefits Non-recurring costs Recurring costs

Deploy / Retrieve Vertical Profiling Access to The NAS Contingency Management Over-the-Horizon Communication Outside Cmd. And Control Long Range and Endurance High Altitude Formation Flight Multi-Ship Operation Precision State Data Quick Deployment Terrain Avoidance Precision Trajectories Remote Bases UAV Missions Collision Avoidance Autonomous Mission Mgmt. All Weather High Availability Reliable Flight Systems Intell. Vehicle System Mngmt - Possible Development Gap Frequency of Occurrence: High Medium Low UAV Capabilities

Most Frequently Derived Capabilities Access to the NAS –Technology requirements based on expected FAA policy Over-the-Horizon Communication –Telepresence –Aircraft/Payload/Operator/Observer Outside Command and Control –Autonomous with human or other outside Intervention Long Range and Endurance –Multi-day missions

New Civil UAV missions

Most Frequently Derived Capabilities, cont’d Formation Flight –Includes control of daughter ships relative to a mother ship Multi-ship Operation –Multiple aircraft under the control of one operator High Altitude –Some with Heavy Payloads

Deploy / Retrieve Vertical Profiling Access to The NAS Contingency Management Over-the-Horizon Communication Outside Cmd. And Control Long Range and Endurance High Altitude Formation Flight Multi-Ship Operation Precision State Data Quick Deployment Terrain Avoidance Precision Trajectories Remote Bases UAV Missions Collision Avoidance Autonomous Mission Mgmt. All Weather High Availability Reliable Flight Systems Intell. Vehicle System Mngmt - Possible Development Gap Frequency of Occurrence: High Medium Low UAV Capabilities

Homeland Security Preliminary Results Highly desired UAV capabilities, as in Earth Science community: –Access to the airspace –OTH network operations More emphasis on all-weather, 24 / 7 capability Covert operations is an additional capability

Workshop Objective Why are we here? –To understand the future needs of your community –To collect information that allows us to derive the capabilities in the UAV system pertinent to your requirements –Add this information to our growing data base What do we hope to gain? –Updates to the capabilities assessment which will aid efficient funding policies of key technologies