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Expendable Acoustic Source for AUV Based Geoacoustic and Geotechnical Survey…

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Navy 		Award ID:
 Program Year/Program:
2012 / STTR
Agency Tracking Number:
N12A-017-0048 		Solicitation Year:
2012 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N12A-T017 		Solicitation Number:
2012.A
Small Business Information
Analysis, Design & Diagnostics, Inc.
317 West Forsyth St. Jacksonville, FL 32202-4307
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2012
Title: Expendable Acoustic Source for AUV Based Geoacoustic and Geotechnical Survey Operations
Agency / Branch: DOD / NAVY
Contract: N00014-12-M-0371
Award Amount: $79,999.00
 

Abstract:

Our team proposes a unique expendable acoustic source comprised of flexural disc technology in a close packed arrangement that allows for a reduction in resonant frequency and an increase in useful bandwidth. This array will be designed to couple as much energy as possible into the bottom sediments, while coupling as little energy as possible directly into the surrounding water column. This is a difficult task for an unspecified and potentially unknown bottom type, but an array of flexural discs designed to sit on the sea floor will make it possible to achieve this goal in many cases. Our source will generate continuous M-sequence waveforms which are excellent for geoacoustic inversion. M-sequence waveforms will be used to provide significant information on the structure of bottom sediments by simultaneously providing very high resolution in both time delay of arrival and Doppler space, limited only by the coherence of the medium. M-sequence waveforms exhibit a white spectrum and, after the specified detection processing, will provide the desired thumbtack ambiguity function, i.e., high resolution in both time of arrival and Doppler space.

Principal Investigator:

Gary Donoher
Program Manager
(904) 475-0094
gdonoher@adndinc.com

Business Contact:

Karen Picard
Contract Admininistrator
(904) 475-0094
kpicard@adndinc.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

Analysis, Design & Diagnostics, Inc.
317 West Forsyth St. Jacksonville, FL 32202-4307

EIN/Tax ID: 593121161
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
Research Institution Information:
University Of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Cswy
Miami, FL 33149-
Contact: Harry DeFerrari
Contact Phone: (305) 421-4644