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System Requirements Review 2/20/07 Team 1. John Horst Jared Odle Keith Fay Boyce Dauby. Andrew Kovach Akshay Raje Jason Darby Manish Handa. Secondary Target Market Civilian Wireless Communications Providers Search and Rescue Expeditionary Forces Research Institutions Land Developers.
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AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07 System Requirements Review2/20/07Team 1 • John Horst • Jared Odle • Keith Fay • Boyce Dauby • Andrew Kovach • Akshay Raje • Jason Darby • Manish Handa
AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07 Secondary Target Market Civilian Wireless Communications Providers Search and Rescue Expeditionary Forces Research Institutions Land Developers Target Market • Primary Target Market • Military/Government • Army • Coast Guard • National Guard • Department of Homeland Security • FEMA
AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07 Market Size • By 2010, existing and planned capacities are forecast to meet only 44 percent of the need projected by Joint Vision 2010 to ensure information superiority. • Tactical communication needs can be met much more responsively and effectively with ACNs than with satellites. • ACNs can effectively augment theater satellite capabilities by addressing deficiencies in capacity and connectivity. • Satellites are better suited than UA for meeting high capacity, worldwide communications needs. - UAS Roadmap 2005 ACN: Aircraft Communication Node
AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07 Competition • Conventional Competition • Broadcast Towers • Communication Satellites • Lighter-Than-Air Vehicles • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles • Shadow 200 • BA-71K • Hunter • Predator
AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07 Market Size • Current ACN systems • RQ7 Shadow 200 • 100 built out of 332 planned for production • Remainder of Market • Possible demand for 420 additional ACN systems • Estimate to satisfy 10% of this void during the first year of production • Planned production of approximately 42 ACN systems
AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07 Concept of Operations • Mission Statement: • The objective is to provide a fixed-wing, semi-autonomous, long-endurance, continuous-area coverage unmanned aerial vehicle to relay communication of tactical importance for an extended period of time. • Takeoff • Conventional runway takeoff (Autonomous or Remote Operation) • Distance from Takeoff to Coverage Area • Approximately 100 nautical miles • Loiter Time/Velocity/Altitude • 24 hours at 80 kts at 15,000 ft. AGL
Concept of Operations AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07 • Transmitting/Receiving • Ground Forces UAV Command Station or other Ground Forces • Control • Autonomous with manual backup/mission override • Remote Operators • Trained military UAV pilots controlling from Mission Command Center • Level of Threat • Design for high threat environment • Auxiliary Payloads • Possible communications jamming equipment and/or countermeasures
Concept of Operations AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07 • Landing • Conventional runway landing (Autonomous or Remote Operation) • Continuous Coverage/Refitting • Active UAV ceases coverage and returns for refuelling after replacement UAV arrives and initiates coverage • Number of UAVs per System* • Two for continuous coverage cycle with one for reserve • *System • Continuous coverage capability over a tactical mission area for an indefinite period of time
AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07 Communications Payload • AJCN - Adaptive Joint C4ISR Node by BAE Systems *Volume approximated by avionic density: 0.02 – 0.03 ft3/lb
AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07 Ceiling Target: 30,000 ft MSL Threshold: 20,000 ft MSL Loiter Altitude 15,000 ft AGL Main Design Requirements • Endurance • Target: 24 hours • Threshold: 14 hours • Range • Target: 100 nm to mission area • Threshold: 50 nm to mission area
AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07 Mission Profile 2 3 6 7 4 5 0 1 8 9 • 0-1 Taxi/Takeoff • 1-2 Climb to Cruise Altitude • 2-3 Cruise to Target • 3-4 Change to Loiter Altitude • 4-5 Loiter • 5-6 Change to Cruise Altitude • 6-7 Cruise to Runway • 7-8 Descend • 8-9 Land/Taxi
AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07 Trade Study Constants
Trade Studies 5% Fuel Reserve AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07
Trade Studies AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07 5% Fuel Reserve
Trade Studies AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07 1% Fuel Reserve
Trade Studies AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07 1% Fuel Reserve
AAE 451 - Team 1 - 2/20/07 Refined Sizing Studies Concept Selection Next Step • Payload Definition • Currently designing around AJCN, few details have been found • Alternate payload capabilities