LONG RANGE FIRES JOINT FORCE OPERATIONS IN GPS-DENIED AND DEGRADED ENVIRONMENTS

The employment of Long-Range Fires is a high priority for the U.S. Navy, addressing the capability of forces to coordinate an emerging arsenal of deep strike weapons that can be launched from an array of joint assets against critical enemy assets at sea or hardened facilities on land. Additionally, the Long-Range Fires process must be resilient in a degraded or denied environment. However, coordinating Long-Range Fires encompasses a complex set of actions, to include target prioritization and development, command and control, tasking, kinetic and non-kinetic fires, battle damage assessment, rearming and contested logistics. Our approach leverages recent Navy-sponsored MBSE research, simulation, and analysis to include projects involving joint fires within Distributed Maritime Operations and feasibility of deploying hypersonic missiles on U.S. surface ships. We apply a similar approach here but augment it with a system of systems analysis of Long-Range Fires in a degraded and denied environment as part of a timely and relevant joint operational scenario. We examine significant design decisions and operational parameters, as well as appropriate measures of effectiveness, in generating successful Long-Range Fires through systems architecture development and simulation analysis.NPS Naval Research ProgramThis project was funded in part by the NPS Naval Research Program.Civilian, Department of the NavyCivilian, Department of the NavyCivilian, Department of the NavyCivilian, Department of the ArmyApproved for public release. Distribution is unlimited