M1400 Lighter-Than-Air Aircraft

1. M1400 Lighter-Than-Air Aircraft WORLD’S MOST AFFORDABLE ISR: Meeting Today’s ISR Demand with Innovation, Integration, and Cost Effectiveness

2. M1400 Airship Characteristics Maneuvering Engine Turbine Propulsion Power Car + DieselMainDrive Engines 1,610 ft3(23 ft x 10 ft x 7 ft)Payload Car Volume • Largest UAV in the world • Over 100K ft3 of available payload area: unprecedented mission flexibility • Up to 6,500 lb payload weight capacity • Eight (8) major independent ISR payloads • Most Bits per Dollar per Day • Very low operating cost • Most powerful UAV-based computer in existence • Enables on-board processing • Minimizes air-to-ground data • Semi-Automated sensor-to-sensor cueing for enhanced threat detection • Increases number of payloads that can be simultaneously deployed and operated • Modular payload integration architecture • Significantly reduces aircraft-payload integration time and cost • Very long endurance • 2-7 days depending on payload & altitude • Largest UAV electrical power generation capacity (120 kVA)

3. Blue Devil Block II: On-going USAF program leveraging the Mav6 M1400 airship for persistent intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations. “…at a 500-nautical mile combat radius, the Air Force’s BD2 would have a payload-duration about 60 times greater than the Predator’s and more than 10 times greater than the Reaper’s.” Congressional Budget Office

4. M1400 Operational Concept Example Potential Coverage of SW Border

5. M1400 Comprehensive ISR Capability Hrs A single M1400 can provide the types of ISR capability of these 7 ISR systems (SIGINT, COMINT, GMTI, EO/IR, HSI, etc.): simultaneously; at 3 to 10 times the duration; accomplish the processing on-board; and do it all for a fraction of the cost… 12 12 32 12 ? 80-120 hrs On-station Vs= .5 16

6. M1400: Value Proposition SIGNINT + COMINT + GMTI + EO/IR + HSI Days 4 3 2 1 5 A single M1400 can provide the types of ISR capability of these 7 ISR systems (SIGINT, COMINT, GMTI, EO/IR, HSI, etc.): simultaneously; at 3 to 10 times the duration; accomplish the processing on-board; and do it all for a fraction of the cost… 12 hour endurance $42K/hr Sorties overlap to maintain Persistent Surveillance 12 hour endurance $45k/hr 32 hour endurance $32k/hr Days 4 3 2 1 5 OR 12 hour endurance $42k/hr 120 hour endurance $4k/hr 12 hour endurance $36k/hr 0.5 hour endurance ? 16 hour endurance $4k/hr 12 # of Aircraft Required for 120 Hours of Continuous Coverage 54X 9 $0.5M >$27M 6 3 for 120 hours of Persistent Surveillance for 120 hours of Persistent Surveillance Time Time the cost

7. M1400 Modular Payload Integration

8. M1400 Payload Options Wide-Area EO/IR High Powered High Definition Full Motion Video Synthetic Aperture Radar On-board Processing High Bandwidth Data Links Weapons Modules Multi-Mode Radar M1400 can support the simultaneous deployment of a variety of mission payloads—and integrate all with on-board computers, processing, and mass storage.

9. M1400 Key Elements • Innovation • Adapted mature airship design to achieve rapid deliverable: Leverages traditional hull design with less complexityand fewer moving parts than alternatives • Open Architecture: Sensor agnostic payload infrastructure • Extensible Ground Segment: Designed to meet expeditionary ISR requirements with local multi-sensor data management, correlation, and storage • Integration • System-of-Systems Design: Designed as a multi-INT system from the beginning • Mission-tailorable sensor suite: Allows rapid reconfiguration in hours to variety of sensor or comm payloads • Moves data processing to point of origin: Meets the tsunami of data challenge • Cost-Effectiveness • High payload/Long endurance enables greater cost-effectiveness: Equivalent pound/hours of ISR would require 10s of multiples of other remotely piloted aircraft • Per flying dollar spent BD2 delivers more ISR capability per hour than other aircraft

10. M1400 Capabilities: Why it’s Unique • Provides persistence with largest multi-int payload in existence • Wide Area EO/IR with largest aperture EO/IR spot capability • Largest “real estate” for SIGINT antenna arrays on any ISR platform • Rapid tipping & cueing provides actionable ISR to users in seconds • Sharing of event and geolocation data across disparate sensors directly to users • Potential for automated sensor to sensor cuing (e.g. SIGINT to IMINT sensors) • Find, fix, identify, and track HVI/HVT with HD sensing and SIGINT queues • On-board processing = more info to users with less bandwidth • Moves data processing from ground to air reducing sensor-to-shooter latency • Potential as focal point of an ISR constellation integrating multiple platforms • Multi-sensor processing ground station • Multi-sensor C2 and visualization in the field reduces sensor analyst requirements • Mission-tailorable sensor suite—in hours not months/years • Accelerates deployment and use of new sensing capabilities • Adaptability to situation not available with any other ISR asset

11. M1400 Value Proposition To keep 6,000 lbs of ISR equipment on station for 78 hours it takes: 1 39 Current Fixed-Wing UAVs M1400 OR 468,000 lb-hrs ISR ÷ 11,900 lb-hrs ISR = 39.3 MQ-series RPAs per M1400 468,000 lb-hrs ISR ÷ 11,900 lb-hrs ISR = 39.3 MQ-series RPAs per M1400 850 lbs ISR equipment x 14 hrs = 11,900 lb-hrs of ISR Mission Capability per aircraft 6,000 lbs ISR equipment x 78 hrs = 468,000 lb-hrs of ISR Mission Capability per aircraft High payload/Long enduranceenables greater cost-effectiveness

12. M1400 Value Proposition Current Fixed- Wing UAVs M1400 7 times the ISR mission payload 6,000 lbs of ISR equipment 850 lbs of ISR equipment 5-6 times the endurance AT 78 hrs 14 hrs 75% the cost per flight hour FOR $1,456/hr $1,117/hr ( 6,000 lbs x 78 hrs ÷ $1,117/hr ) ÷ ( 850 lbs x 14 hrs ÷ $1,456/hr ) = 52.375 Per flying dollar spent you get 52 times more ISR per hour with M1400 than current fixed-wing UAVs

13. CBO Payload-Duration Comparison 300,000 250,000 200,000 M1400 Payload-Duration (Pound-Hours) 150,000 100,000 50,000 MQ-9 Reaper Grey Eagle MQ-1 Predator 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 Combat Radius (Nautical Miles) Source: Congressional Budget Office based on data provided by manufacturers.

14. Blue Devil 2 Progress

15. Example M1400 Mission Potential • Humanitarian Assistance • Disaster Relief • Persistent Presence • Border Patrol • Law Enforcement • Traffic Management • Crowd Control • Market Analysis • Counter-Drug Ops • Communications Relay • Cell Phone Networking • Home/Facility Security • Pipeline Monitoring • Rapid Map Refresh • Emergency Response • Air Sampling • Crop Monitoring • Insect/disease Control • Flood Control • Nuclear Monitoring • Counter-terrorism • Early Warning • Counter-proliferation • Counter-piracy • Harbor Control • Special Operations