You are here

Multisource/multireceiver Tactical Decision Aid

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N/A
Agency Tracking Number: 32112
Amount: $69,948.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 1996
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
40 Lloyd Avenue, Suite 200
Malvern, PA 19355
United States
DUNS: N/A
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Bernard J. Mccabe
 (610) 644-3400
Business Contact
Phone: () -
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

It is proposed to design and build a Tactical Decision Aid for multisource/ multireceiver active sonar systems, as used operationally, and addressing all environmental, tactical and system parameters. These systems and the environment in which they are immersed bring new kinds of complexities that require new methods to analyze. Traditional tactics do not address the issues involved with multiple bistatic sources and receivers. The environment can no longer be idealized as a homogeneous isotropic medium. Sound speed profiles vary dramatically across space, creating transmission loss functions which vary as we move from point to point as well as radially. This level of complexity causes human intuition to function poorly, unless supported by well-designed information displays. These problems are all the more significant in the light of the kinds of military conflict we are liable to encounter in today's world. Regional conflicts with potential adversaries will tend to occur in shallow waters where there is a great deal of inhomogeneity and where background noise is dominated by reverberation. The latter presents difficulties in estimating detection performance, and operational constraints on active ping scheduling to avoid interference.

* Information listed above is at the time of submission. *

US Flag An Official Website of the United States Government