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Coordinated Asset Allocation and Route Planning for Anti-Submarine Warfare

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
N/A 		Award ID:
 Program Year/Program:
2011 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
N111-044-0743 		Solicitation Year:
2011 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N111-044 		Solicitation Number:
2011.1
Small Business Information
QUANTUM LEAP INNOVATIONS, INC.
3 Innovation Way Suite 100 Newark, DE -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2011
Title: Coordinated Asset Allocation and Route Planning for Anti-Submarine Warfare
Agency: DOD
Contract: N00167-11-P-0378
Award Amount: $79,923.00
 

Abstract:

Existing Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) mission planners can specify patrol regions for available sensor platforms and provide detailed, coordinated search tracks for each platform. However, most of the planners have not considered any real-time sensor information feedback during optimization and cannot support dynamic re-planning. To better support ASW in a dynamic and uncertain environment, Quantum Leap Innovations, Inc. (QLI) will collaborate with Professor Stephen Smith at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to develop a novel two stage sequential mission planning framework for coordinated asset allocation and route planning. In Phase I, we will leverage our extensive experience in various, successful mission planning applications for manned/unmanned systems and investigate approximate algorithms for real-time asset allocation and route planning in ASW. We will develop a simulation testbed for multiple manned/unmanned platforms and evaluate the effectiveness of coordinated search tactics using simulations. In the Phase I option, we will study many actual factors for multi-sensor coordinated search in ASW, such as variable size of sensing field of view, environment-dependent sensor models and communication connectivity.

Principal Investigator:

Ganesh Vaidyanathan
Chief Scientist
(302) 894-8040
gv@quantumleap.us

Business Contact:

Frank Abbott
VP of Finance, CFO
(302) 894-8045
fta@quantumleap.us
Small Business Information at Submission:

Quantum Leap Innovations, Inc.
3 Innovation Way Suite 100 Newark, DE -

EIN/Tax ID: 510369259
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No