Allocation of Surveillance and Tactical Search Assets in Undersea Warfare
Abstract
Our overarching objective of this proposal is to determine and locate an optimal mix of surveillance sensors and tactical search assets for monitoring enemy submarine activity in an open-ocean setting given an overall budget for both. Our strategy has three primary components that work together in a cohesive system:(1) a strategic model that, given separate budgets for surveillance and tactical search assets, optimally selects and locates surveillance sensors and selects and determines base locations for tactical search assets; (2)a tactical model that optimally deploys tactical search assets across multiple discrete time periods given the output of (1) in response to multiple areas of uncertainty originating from deployed surveillance equipment;(3)a simulation model that incorporates enemy activity, detection of enemy activity by deployed surveillance equipment, and the deployment of tactical assets (using (2)) over multiple time periods to evaluate the effectiveness of solutionsto (1) and (2) in the presence of more avenues for uncertainty than cannot be captured effectively in a deterministic optimization model. Iterative analysis involving all three models will allow us to address the problems presented in the following section.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Apr 11, 2024
- Source ID
- N000142412280
Entities
People
- Esra Buyuktahtakin Toy
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- Virginia Tech