WIDE AREA ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE (ASW) SURVEILLANCE
Abstract
Wide Area ASW Surveillance is focused on dramatically improving the capability to sanitize large areas relative to the capabilities of legacy ASW sensors. Efforts include the development of affordable offboard systems with associated processing and robust, high bandwidth communications links. The cornerstone of Wide Area Surveillance is the ability to rapidly distribute acoustic and non-acoustic sensors from air, surface, and sub-surface platforms as well as to develop long-endurance sensors and unmanned ASW vehicles. This activity represents a shift from traditional fixed surveillance systems to autonomous, networked-components, multi-static operation, and supported by passive/active signal processing all with the objective of increased detection capabilities. FY 2009 funds were moved to the newly established Marine Mammals Activity ($1.2M). The FY 2009 to FY 2010 funding decrease is due to the realignment of this activity to the newly established ASW Distributed Search, Performance Assessment, Precision Localization and Surveillance activities in FY 2010.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 060a6627946cc745f626d80bda32f4a1