 This year's ball-top experimentation is the largest that we've had in ball-tops past Incorporating numerous DOD institutions and civilians institutions of people coming from across the United States and Navier To come together for their various objectives and testing out of their sensors to aid in MCM clearance objectives So this year's ball-top MCM experimentation focusing focuses on Decreasing the detect and engage sequence for more efficient minefield clearance So we're doing that via the use of unmanned surface systems under water systems and air systems Those systems are all using different type of sensors incorporated and Conglomerated into one common tactical picture to now allow units to real-time see the sensor footage for more efficient minefield clearance Going from detection of mine mine and mine like contacts to its reacquisition identification and neutralization For this year's ball-tops MCM experimentation We have three separate and distinct lines of effort the first is the employment of six fleet unmanned underwater Vehicles the mark 18 mod twos as well as the Remus 600 from the Office of Naval Research Those unmanned underwater vehicles are embarked on the FDS Helmsen out of WTD 71 German naval maritime experimentation unit what the UVs are doing is collaborative autonomy to allow for more efficient minefield clearance The unmanned underwater vehicles that we have operating out here in shone hagin interact with the greater exercise of ball-tops 2021 we were given a simulated minefield and what we're doing here is sending in UUVs to the area to dynamically look at The bottom Determine if there are contacts go and reacquire those contacts and then send that data Via iridium back to the command operation center centered in puplos That data is being pushed up to ATAC giving everybody a better understanding of the threat area on a much more global scale So we interact with the Marine Corps by the vehicle is generating Acoustic communications back to our Gateway buoys which are stationed outside of the minefield From there the data is sent via iridium up and over to our shore side of monitoring station And that data is being pushed through the new software IS-2 ops Which is being proofed out here and then into ATAC ATAC is that Marine Corps component for C2 The second line of effort is for unmanned sensors employed here locally MCM ashore at puplos That is with the coordination of ground vehicles surface vehicles and other unmanned underwater vehicles That are employed with their various sensor nodes to do bottom hunting and mapping for a more efficient minefield contact localization So with the experimental equipment that we are using the Marine Corps has never dealt with any with the underwater domain We've done everything surface where the cat and cliff handed off now within GPC That there's a there's a zone that's not a defined line So we needed to find something to do that and it's unmanned systems and unmanned systems that we are currently Investigating using some program of record working towards our vision is that gap to take the man out of the minefield So to speak and if we could take the man out of the minefield and automate it and feed a common operating picture Efficiently it's going to the collective is just going to be able to think faster mosaic warfare specifically for ball tops the Continued integration with this and expanding up on that especially in the underwater domain is going to be critical for the future The third line of effort is for the incorporation of these various sensor nodes into one common tactical picture That is done via the ATAC Android tactical assault kit as well as the Information systems to operations a project run by NRL for the compilation of the various sensor data into one readable Common tactical picture that can be read by tactical units employed ashore here at Putlos as well as the flu