Deep Sea Operations (DSOP)
Abstract
(U) The Deep Sea Operations program will achieve game changing advantages through operations in the deep ocean exploiting maritime persistent surveillance and communications technologies. The deep ocean offers the ability to distribute, conceal and protect maritime assets and operations that today are readily described as concentrated, exposed, and vulnerable. The unfavorable extreme conditions of pressure, temperature, and signal propagation challenge the ability to operate in this frontier. Breakthroughs are needed in several areas: 1) Development of energy and power for persistence and propulsion, including energy harvesting, energy delivery, and solutions for air-independent propulsion; 2) Development of alternatives for through-water communications for high-bandwidth data exfiltration and command and control; and 3) Development of new sensing modalities to exploit unique signatures and deep ocean conditions, including overcoming acoustic aperture constraints through advanced synthetic aperture sonar or virtual laser-defined hydrophones for high resolution detection and classification. Success will lead to systems that capitalize on these breakthroughs to provide high payoff capability relevant to anti-submarine warfare, infrastructure protection, shore monitoring, and forward staging operations. The program will transition to the Navy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 8328fa484bf8c45fed4b72890ae63bd5