Undersea Warfare Applied Res

Abstract

The Undersea Warfare Applied Research Program Element (PE) funds applied research efforts in undersea target detection, classification, localization, tracking, and neutralization. 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 PE. The activities described in this PE address future Navy and Marine Corps capabilities needed to maintain maritime superiority and ensure national security. Targeted capabilities are based on input from Naval Research Enterprise stakeholders including combatant commands, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) and Headquarters Marine Corps and are designed to exploit breakthroughs in science and technology in order to deliver maximum undersea warfighting benefit to our sailors and marines. Today's Sailors and Marines are enabled by naval Science and Technology (S&T). Since 1946, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has fostered scientific research related to the maintenance of maritime superiority and national defense. ONR manages the Department of the Navy's (DON) portfolio of naval Basic and Applied research, and Advanced Technology Development investments to ensure naval forces can effectively deter conflict, but when called upon, fight, win and come home safe. Current investments hedge against uncertainty, providing solutions to commanders today, and options for the future. The Naval S&T budget supports higher guidance defined by the National Defense Strategy, and responds to requirements identified by the Secretary of the Navy through research priorities set by the Chief of Naval Research, coordinated across the Naval Research Enterprise (NRE), and outlined in the Naval R&D Framework. This Program Element (PE) funds Applied Research, which is the systematic study to understand the means to meet a recognized and specific need. Most of the work in this PE can be classified between Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 2 (technology concept and/or application formulation) and TRL 4 (component and/or breadboard validation in laboratory environments). 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, 2021
• Source ID: 0602747N_2_1319_PB_2021
• Change Summary Explanation: Schedule: Not applicable. Technical: Not applicable. Funding: No significant change.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acoustic Detection
• Active Sonar
• Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
• Detection
• Detectors
• Environment
• Measurement
• National Security
• Optical Detection
• Signal Processing
• Submarine Warfare
• Target Detection
• Undersea Warfare
• Underwater Vehicles
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Readers

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