Undersea Combat Includes Way More Than Submarines | SIGNAL Magazine

Undersea Combat Includes Way More Than Submarines | SIGNAL Magazine

“#Undersea warfare is a lot more than just #submarine versus submarine. My job is to make sure our undersea forces—and that includes our ballistic missile submarines, our attack submarines, our carrier strike group ASW [anti-submarine warfare] forces, maritime patrol aircraft, fixed systems, #unmanned and #autonomous systems, all of that—are able to integrate as part of an undersea battle force,” explains Rear Adm. Richard Seif, USN, https://lnkd.in/ggG3CRd3 commander, Undersea Warfighting Development Center (UWDC), Groton, Connecticut https://lnkd.in/g4PAqt4Y.

“Given constraints on the number of submarines we may be able to afford as a country, frankly, the ability to deploy unmanned systems as a system-of-systems approach is going to be critical. And then #artificialintelligence and #machinelearning for that decision superiority and data-driven decision making, I think all fits together,” he asserts.

The UWDC is exploring a variety of unmanned systems for the undersea mission. “We’re making tremendous progress on a whole family of systems, everything from small, unmanned vehicles to fully autonomous vehicles, able to carry a variety of payloads. We certainly see that as not just a need but a real value to the force to be able to integrate unmanned systems for everything from wide area search to surveys to delivering effects if we need to,” he says.