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MARITIME TACTICAL UAS
NAVAL AVIATION CAPABILITY PROGRAM
Brief to Industry – Avalon 26 Feb 19
Strategic Guidance
• To improve the situational awareness
of ships on operations, we will acquire
a new tactical unmanned intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance
aircraft system that will complement
other sensors and systems by
extending the area able to be held
under surveillance.
Changing Strategic Drivers
• Strategic drivers continue to evolve since the 2016
Defence White Paper and Integrated Investment
Program.
• MTUAS capability needs and requirements will evolve
• MTUAS capability urgency can only accelerate
Navy’s Future Force
Arafura Class OPV
Primary Mission
• Enhance the OPV’s ability
to undertake operations:
– Constabulary Role
– ISR
– Boarding Operations
– SAR
Arafura Class OPV
Secondary Missions
• Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
• Evacuation Operations
• Task Group Operations:
– Force Protection
– Recognised Maritime Picture
– Rapid Environmental Assessments
– Mine Counter Measures
Stage 1 - OPVOPV
HMAS Stirling
HMAS Coonawarra
HMAS Cairns
HMAS Albatross
Capability Bricks
+ Raise Train Sustain
Arafura Class OPV
• Large enough flight deck for all MTUAS operations.
• Almost certainly a fully containerised MTUAS solution
• Flight deck is rated to 11 tonnes
FWD View (from Mid Flight Deck)
STBD Container Positon
Major Fleet Units
• Mission Set– ISR&T
– Comms/Link Node
– Battle Damage
Assessment
– Search & Rescue
– Electronic Warfare
• Classes– Hunter - FFG
– Supply - AOR
– Anzac - FFH
– Canberra – LHD
– Hobart - DDG
– Choules - LSD
Stage 1 - OPV
MFUs
West Based MFUs
East Based MFUs
HMAS Albatross
Capability Bricks
+ Raise Train Sustain
Schedule
• Gate 0 – Achieved Aug 16
• Gate 1 – Early to mid 2020
• Gate 2 – Early to mid 2022
• SEA129-5 IOC – mid 2020s
• SEA129-5 FOC – late 2020s
SEA 129-5 Status Update
• Not constrained to formerly advised
staged acquisition (Stages 1 and 2).
• Defence are considering a PSI /
Capability Partner approach
SEA 129-5 PSI Potential Considerations
• Government direction pending
• Potential PSI components under consideration
– PSI to be responsible for developing, delivering, maintaining
and sustaining the required level of capability, including training
elements within defined parameters; operated by Defence.
– PSI would operate in partnership with Defence for the life of the
capability – 20 to 30 years
– A Tranche approach may be considered to allow technical and
system refreshes to assure capability in an evolving threat
environment
SEA 129-5 Market Approach
• Government direction pending
• Open RFP to advise approach to be taken and
down-select
– Mid to late 2020
• Restricted RFT to select supplier/industry
partner
– Early to mid 2021
– Classification likely to be SECRET.
MARITIME TACTICAL UAS
NAVAL AVIATION CAPABILITY PROGRAM