Award

While the AN/SQS-53C continues to provide the Navy with highly capable and adaptable sonar capabilities and performance, these aging systems provide growing procurement and maintenance challenges.  Since these systems were designed and manufactured in the 80’s and early 90’s, power electronics device technologies and manufacturing techniques have vastly improved. QorTek aims to resolve these issues by providing designs based on modern techniques that are both rapidly manufacturable and more cost effective while providing paths for significant performance improvements. QorTek will develop retrofit AN/SQS-53C transmitter cabinets as highly manufacturable high-performance replacements with future capability upgrades. Along with enhanced performance, QorTek’s solution integrates advanced Performance Monitoring / Fault Localization (PMFL) capabilities, which have been extended beyond basic power and fault detection to allow health management on local and connected sub-systems to detect degrading equipment and enable the implementation of Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) for more informed maintenance cycles. An additional program goal is to ensure these modernized components are ready for next generation technology enhancements to surrounding interfaces, while retaining compatibility with the existing architecture.