The distributed air wing

The development of advanced anti-access/area denial (A2AD) threats by potential adversaries presents a significant challenge to the United States Navy. The proliferation of these threats makes operating an aircraft carrier from contested waters a high-risk endeavor. If a carrier must be withheld from the battle or is put out of action, the entire capability of the air wing is lost. The Systems Engineering process was applied to this problem by exploring a concept called the Distributed Air Wing (DAW). This high-level concept includes various methods to distribute and disperse naval air capabilities from their centralized location on an aircraft carrier. This study outlines the development and analysis of three conceptual designs that fall under the concept of the DAW: a dispersed land and sea basing concept that utilizes carrier-borne Navy and Marine Corps aircraft, a seaborne unmanned aircraft courier system, and a carrier-based unmanned air-to-air vehicle. The analysis within shows that a mixture of these alternatives in varying degrees delivers the Fleet’s most critical capabilities— Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), Offensive/Defensive Counter Air, and Surface/Land Strike— with less risk than the current Carrier Air Wing (CVW) force structure and operational doctrine.

Department dc:contributor.department

Systems Engineering (SE)

Grantor dc:publisher

Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Authors dc:creator

• Naccarato, Vincent
• Lee, Joong Yang
• Wu, Meng Hsi
• Ilan, Ittai Bar
• Efird, James
• Elzner, Benjamin
• Morgan, Darrell
• Tawoda, Kayla
• Wolfe, Evan
• Goh, Wei Jun
• Loo, Sok Hiang
• Ng, Kok Wah
• Ong, Chee Siong
• Tan, Choon Ming
• Tan, Hock Woo
• Tng, Chung Siong
• Yang, Kangjie
• SEA Cohort SEA-20B

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Chung, Timothy H.

Statement dc:rights

• This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10945/42717

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/42717