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Leveraging Limited Range and Training Resources via Remote Split Operations Lt Col Juan Torres Det 520/CC May 18 This Briefing is: UNCLASSIFIED Overview USAF MQ-9 Operations Formal Training Pipeline Remote Split Ops Training 2

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This Briefing is:

UNCLASSIFIED

Leveraging Limited Range and Training Resources via Remote Split Operations

Lt Col Juan Torres Det 520/CC May 18

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Overview

  • USAF MQ-9 Operations
  • Formal Training Pipeline
  • Remote Split Ops Training

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RPA Revolution

One Man’s Vision “We have just won a war with a lot of heroes flying around in planes. The next war may be fought by airplanes with no men in them at all…”

Gen Hap Arnold, USAAF VJ-Day 1945

49th Wing Mission Develop the World’s Best Professional RPA Enterprise

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Evolving Capability

UNCLASS

Synthetic Aperture Radar HELLFIRE Laser Guided Missile Multispectral Targeting System GBU-12 Laser Guided Bomb

Supporting diverse missions across the joint/coalition force!

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System Components

Aircraft

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Redefined Paradigms

  • 91% of RPA Ops Force does not deploy
  • Saves $200K/person per year or $130.1M/yr enterprise-wide
  • Unmatched persistence – very low boots on ground – diplomatic win
  • Capability shift between theaters/across the globe
  • Strategic priorities & Intelligence during execution
  • Poor weather in one operating area
  • Architecture allows immediate
  • Intelligence processing, exploitation and dissemination
  • Combat data-link integration
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Truly a Multi-Role Asset

24/7 Full Motion Video & Persistent Strike Capability

Precision Strike Airstrike Control Urban CAS DSCA Convoy Overwatch Counter-Narcotics Target Development High Value Targets Disaster Relief

Combatant Commander’s Highest Demanded Asset

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Mission Control Element Ground Control Station

Manpower Components

Processing, Exploitation, Dissemination Distributed Ground Station Pilots Sensors Msn Coord

MCE

54 Personnel

Maintenance Leadership & Overhead FMV Analysts SIGINT Analysts

PED

83 Personnel

Leadership & Overhead Maintenance Launch & Recovery Element Ground Control Station Ground Data Terminal

LRE

61 Personnel

Pilots Sensors Maintenance

Single 24/7/365 MQ-1/9 CAP Manpower Requirement

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MQ-1/9 Student Training

Holloman

136 293 451 566 678 716 603 818

100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016

Luke: 279 (F-16) Tinker: 661

(E-3 18 Crew Positions)

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Aircrew

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RPA Pilot: 18X Legacy Pilot: 11U Sensor Operator: 1U

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Holloman RPA Operations

  • USAF’s Largest Formal Training Unit
  • Only Active Duty MQ-9 Training Pipeline
  • RPA Formal Training
  • Initial Qualification and Requalification
  • Multi-Role Syllabus: AH, ISR, BSA, AI, SCAR, CAS, CSAR
  • Includes ~5% International aircrews
  • Formal Instructor Upgrade Training (FIUT)
  • Launch and Recovery training
  • Additional RPA Support
  • Joint Training Exercises: ~ 12 exercises annually
  • Test Support: Occasional
  • Force Protection: In development

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Producing quality RPA crews for combatant commanders

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RPA Training Resources

  • Organization: 3 FTUs, 1 OSS, 1 TRS
  • Equipment: 22 MQ-9, 11 GCSs, 10 PMATS, 11 GDTs, 2 FSSTs
  • 10 lines, 12-15 hour ASD plus 9 sim lines, 18 hours daily
  • 72-90 student flight and sim events per day
  • Instructor Cadre:
  • Active Duty plus AFRC
  • International
  • Contract Aircrew Training (CAT)
  • Training Support:
  • Courseware Development (CWD)
  • Simulator Console Operator/instruction/maintenance
  • OPFOR

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Diverse Cadre of AD, TFI, International & Contract Instructors

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  • Weather
  • Restricted Airspace
  • Ranges

El Paso Albuquerque Roswell Holloman

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A B C C D E F G F H H L 4 3 1 2

04 16 25 22

WSMR

  • Ft. Bliss

Holloman Location

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  • Today: Special Access - Certificate of Authorization (COA)
  • Numerous and varied restrictions
  • Inflexible system FAA and DoD are working improvements
  • Mid-term: Routine Access - Policy, procedures and technology

permit non-segregated access

  • Ground Based Sense and Avoid
  • Long-term: Normalized Access – Technology development to allow

RPA/UAS to operate in the NAS with an equivalent level of safety and efficiency as manned aircraft

  • GBSAA, ADS-B, and Airborne Sense and Avoid
  • FAA Reauthorization Act – RPA in NAS by end of 2015

RPA Airspace Integration: Now and Future

Airspace Operations Technology

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RSO Training

  • Recent Examples
  • CA-ANG FTU Conversion
  • Ellsworth AFB Continuation Training
  • UK FTU Stand Up
  • Potential Application
  • Tapping Underutilized Airspace (e.g. Royal Australian Air Force)
  • Building Partner Capacity
  • Challenges
  • Airspace Awareness
  • Resource Coordination/Management

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RSO nets increased flexibility with limited training resources

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Bringing It All Together

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TRAINING THE USAF’s LARGEST MWS

FSST

LRE

Ku Satellite

MCE SOC

Mission Control Element Launch & Recovery Element

RSO integrates joint/coalition training worldwide

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Questions