ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE (ASW) SURVEILLANCE
Abstract
ASW Surveillance focuses on dramatically improving detection, classification, and localization capabilities in large ocean areas relative to the capabilities of legacy ASW surveillance systems. The related technologies support the conduct of covert wide-area surveillance ranging from one day to six months. The objectives are to develop and demonstrate technologies that provide clandestine indications and warnings in far forward and contested operating areas and in complex operational environments against all submarine threats including new threats with unknown target signatures and tactics. Covertness implies use of non-observable platforms and/or deployed automated sensors employing passive sonar or other non-detectable methods. The surveillance process includes initial detection and classification. Efforts include the development of Unmanned Undersea Vehicle-based and affordable off-board deployable sensing systems employing a wide variety of surveillance concepts and components. These efforts focus on alternative detection phenomena, vector/tensor sensors, automated acoustic processing, more compact and longer lasting power sources, and high bandwidth acoustic communications links. The FY 2009 to FY 2010 funding increase is due to the realignment of the Wide Area ASW Surveillance activity into this new activity. The FY 2010 to FY 2011 funding decrease is due to the completion of Future Naval Capability (FNC) - SHD-FY06-02 - Deployable Autonomous distributed System (DADs); PALANTIR; and Submarine Track and Trail.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 0788317bc5f4b265f339a4e02b1a556c