Supporting the Navy's Unified Control System for Unmanned Vehicles

Intro

The Navy's Common Control System (CCS) is the designated control station for unmanned vehicles across air, surface, and subsurface domains, providing operators a unified, open-architecture interface for commanding multiple unmanned systems. Accelint provides software sustainment, safety testing, DevOps, and cybersecurity support to NIWC Pacific and NAVAIR PMA-281 under the CCS Software Support Activity.

Challenge

CCS required sustained software development and engineering support to evolve alongside autonomy development, integrate new vehicle types, and maintain cybersecurity compliance and operational readiness. The system needed continuous software sustainment, rigorous safety testing, and accelerated secure releases to keep pace with emerging unmanned systems capabilities and operational timelines.

Accelint was awarded a $9.4M task order under the Command and Control Technology and Experimentation (C2&E) IDIQ to provide Software Support Activity (SSA) for CCS. Accelint's contributions include:

• Software development and sustainment: Keeping CCS aligned with evolving PEO(U&W) requirements.

• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE):Improving verification, traceability, and system integration.

• DevOps engineering and cybersecurity compliance: Accelerating secure software releases.

• Software safety testing and configuration management: Maintaining operational assurance and readiness.

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These efforts allow CCS to evolve alongside autonomy development, integrate new vehicle types, and maintain high system readiness across platforms.