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Advanced Signal Processing and Display Concepts for Airborne Active ASW Systems

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Navy 		Award ID:
36556 		Program Year/Program:
1997 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
36556 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
ATLANTIC AEROSPACE ELECTRONICS CORP.
6404 Ivy Lane, Suite 300 Greenbelt, MD 20770
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 1997
Title: Advanced Signal Processing and Display Concepts for Airborne Active ASW Systems
Agency / Branch: DOD / NAVY
Contract: N/A
Award Amount: $69,012.00
 

Abstract:

Atlantic Aerospace proposes to develop an Active Sonar Display Processor (ASDP) to distinguish between submarine and non-submarine contacts in airborne active sonar systems. Accurate active classification of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) sonar echoes is a long standing need for the Navy. Current system performance is based upon an operator viewing the sonar screen and making classifications based upon his experience. For low-frequency active systems with their inherently greater range sensitivity and operating in shallow water, the number of false contacts can overwhelm the sonar operator. The penalties associated with incorrect active classification are great. The ASDP Display Processor will provide significant display features to increase the efficiency of a sonar operator by combining and associating contacts from different sensors and platforms, displaying tracking data for sonar contacts, overlaying bathymetry to indicate likely clutter area, indicating regions of low ensonification at target depths, using icons to indicate classification results and color coding to indicate confidence in classification. This will allow the operator to ignore contacts with high confidence and concentrate on those with low confidence employing single-ping and multi-ping automatic classification clues to aid operator decision-making. Finally, it will allow operators to interact with the display to make final classification decisions.

Principal Investigator:

Dr. Benson Rosen
6178904200

Business Contact:

Small Business Information at Submission:

Atlantic Aerospace
470 Totten Pond Rd Waltham, MA 02154

EIN/Tax ID:
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No