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ACTIVITY GROUP CAPITAL INVESTMENT JUSTIFICATIONFISCAL YEAR (FY) 2012 BUDGET ESTIMATES($ in Thousands) DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY / NAVY WORKING CAPITAL FUNDDepartment of the Navy / Research and Development / Naval Undersea Warfare CenterLocationNewport/KeyportFY 2010FY 2011 FY 2012Non ADPE Equipment Quantity Unit Cost Total Cost Quantity Unit Cost Total Cost Quantity Unit Cost Total CostNew Mission Equipment 4 $2,243 4 $3,125 4 $2,717Total 4 $2,243 4 $3,125 4 $2,717New Mission Equipment:These investments support the acquisition of non-ADPE equipment that is required to support a new capability that can not be met with current equipment or capabilities. These include investments inequipment to support new mission capabilities such as persistent power source technologies, inground and underwater surveillance system, experimentation, sensor technology integration and evaluation,measurement system, and next generation autonomous systems. Investments in these capabilities will enable the Warfare Center to rapidly & efficiently develop and evaluate distributed network and sensortechnologies and systems that support future undersea network-centric warfare C4ISR goals.Benefit: The Navy has identified a strong need for highly-coordinated, "networked" forces with advanced sensors and requiring persistent power sources technology. Consistent with Network Centric Warfaredoctrine, future concepts require significant amounts of information (from a variety of sensor types) to be transferred and shared among all contributing Naval components (other sensor platforms, command &control, weapons platforms, etc.). The ease and efficiency of this information transfer will determine the level of success with which the Navy can execute future missions. If information cannot be transferredto the appropriate nodes in the operation, then the Navy's combat effectiveness is significantly constrained. Investment in these capabilities can evaluate emerging technologies, exercised in littoral waters thatare equivalent to tactical areas of interest. Investments will enable the Warfare Center and the Navy to develop technologies required to meet the challenges associated with Distributed Networked Systems(DNS).Impact: If equipment is not purchased, the Warfare Center will be unable to develop and test candidate technologies such as persistent power sources and advanced sensors required to meet the challengeassociated with DNS. In the DNS functional decomposition, the Sensing, Transport, Networking and Communications events that take place in the marine environment require innovation advanced concepts.The DNS challenge relies heavily on the development and testing of advanced sensors, power sources and autonomous systems. If equipment is not purchased, the Warfare Center and the Navy will be unableto support the needs of the future warfighter.688 CLASS Payload Integration Facility ($1.325M) - Design and manufacture a high-fidelity, ship-like facility to support 688 Class payload integration resulting in 1/3 of a 688 Class Weapons Handling System(Torpedo Room). The facility will facilitate the land based integration of new and under development submarine weapons and payloads prior to initial shipboard integration. The facility will ensure proper fit,operation and integration of new weapons or payloads prior to initial integration to and deployment from a 688 class submarine. It will provide sponsors & developers (navy & non navy) a venue to explore &validate payload-to-submarine launcher system interfaces while not impacting operational availability of fleet assets. The payloads of most concern are the non-weapon, ISR type payloads that utilize theSubmarine weapons system for their stowage & deployment. The current approach to system development requires developers to design & build new systems with no means to fully evaluate shipboardlauncher interfaces short of an operational submarine. The proposed facility allows for this validation and checkout, reducing development cost & time lines, while providing greater probability of first passsuccess.Exhibit Fund-9BCapital Purchase Justification