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ThunderDrone Rapid PrototypingEventI

5 September – 3 November2017

SOFWERX Rapid PrototypingEvents

• 1. High intensity - short duration collision event designed to generate leapsin

capabilities

• 2. Apply innovative thinking to existing or envisioned voids and create “proof of

theory, proof of concepts”

• 3. Collaborative across all sectors – defense, industry and academia

ThunderDrone RPE

• I. Swarms: building and controlling (3, 33, 333,

3003)

• II. Platforms: identify or build the best of breed
• III. Effects: apply synergistically across the effect

landscape (non-kinetic/kinetic)

• IV. Data Science: quantitative insight across the

entire lifecycle (design, build, operate, and assess)

ThunderDrone RPE I Timeline

✓7 Jun: Tech Submission Invitation ✓29 Jun: WarfighterCouncil ✓11 Jul: InteragencyCouncil ✓20 Jul: Technology SubmissionDeadline ✓25 Jul: AcademicCouncil ✓21 Jul –28: Warfighter Downselects ✓3Aug: Tech Expo Invites ✓5-7 Sep: Tech Expo ✓7 Sep: WarfighterForum ✓7 – 18 Sep: Warfighter Exchanges ✓ 19 – 27 Sep: Tech Experiment ID

• 28 Sep – 31 Oct: Tech Sprint
• 1-3 Nov: ThunderDrone Rodeo
• 1-3 Nov: Warfighter Forum

ThunderDrone Rodeo Tech Experiments

• Experiment #1: Autonomous Mapping
• Experiment #2: Perching in a

Denied GPS Environment

• Experiment #3: Autonomous Self-

Healing Communication Relay

• Experiment #4: Target Marking
• Experiment #5: Fused Multiple Drone

Sensors

• Experiment #6: Counter-UAS
• Experiment #7: Constant Autonomous

Deployment of UGVs

• Experiment #8: EOD Investigation
• Experiment#9: Sub-Surface Support
• Experiment #10: Convoy Support
• Experiment #11: Aqueous Strike
• Experiment #12: Landing Zone

Marking/Survey

• Experiment #13: Acoustic Relay in

SaturatedEnvironment

Technologies and Capabilities

• Swarms
• Technologies
• Communication
• Control
• Coordination
• Capabilities
• Basic Avoid
• Collective

Movement

• CoordinatedEffect
• Platforms
• Novel Energy Systems
• Sea, Air, Land,Space
• ModularPayload

Capabilities

• Employment
• Non-KineticEffects
• Sense Cloud(ISR)
• ProtectUmbrella

(Jamming/Non- lethal)

• C-UAS
• Detect
• Drone onDrone
• Counter-Swarm
• KineticEffects

Data Science cuts across all lanes

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