Undersea Warfare Applied Res

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) funds applied research efforts in undersea target detection, classification, localization, tracking, and neutralization. Technologies being developed within this PE are aimed at enabling Sea Shield, one of the core operational concepts detailed in the Naval Transformational Roadmap. Associated efforts focus on new Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) operational concepts that promise to improve wide-area surveillance, detection, localization, tracking, and attack capabilities against quiet adversary submarines operating in noisy and cluttered shallow water environments. Related efforts are aimed at leveraging technologies that will protect the country's current capital investment in surveillance, submarine, surface ship, and air ASW assets. Research focused on understanding the impacts on marine mammals of manmade underwater sound is also conducted in the Program Element , as well as continuing support to research vessels of the U.S. Academic Research Fleet for operations and maintenance that enable applied research at sea. The activities described in this program element PE address future Navy and Marine Corps capabilities needed to maintain maritime superiority and ensure national security. They are based on input from Naval Research Enterprise stakeholders (including the Naval enterprises, the combatant commands, OPNAV and Headquarters Marine Corps) and are designed to exploit breakthroughs in science and technology in order to deliver maximum warfighting benefit to our sailors and marines. These efforts are aligned with shared priorities throughout the whole of RDT&E in order to quickly advance new capabilities from discovery to deployment across the warfighting domains. Due to the number of efforts in this PE, the programs described herein are representative of the work included in this PE.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2020
• Source ID: 0602747N_2_1319_PB_2020
• Change Summary Explanation: Schedule: Not applicable. Technical: Not applicable
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• Biomedical
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Sensors
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acoustic Detection
• Active Sonar
• Antisubmarine Warfare
• Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
• Capital Investments
• Detection
• Detectors
• Electric Fields
• Marine Mammals
• Optical Detection
• Signal Processing
• Submarine Warfare
• Target Detection
• Undersea Warfare
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
• Warfare

Fields of Study

• Environmental science

Readers

• Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.