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3D Acoustic Model for Geometrically Constrained Environments

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N00014-16-P-3040
Agency Tracking Number: N16A-018-0011
Amount: $79,781.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: N16A-T018
Solicitation Number: 2016.0
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2016
Award Year: 2016
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2016-07-11
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2017-05-10
Small Business Information
12625 High Bluff Dr.
San Diego, CA 92130
United States
DUNS: 167663223
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Michael Porter
 (858) 336-9341
 porter@hlsresearch.com
Business Contact
 Michael Porter
Phone: (858) 336-9341
Email: porter@hlsresearch.com
Research Institution
 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
 Tim Duda
 
266 Woods Hole Rd. MS#11
Woods Hole, MA 02543
United States

 (508) 289-2495
 Domestic Nonprofit Research Organization
Abstract

Systems that operate in constrained environments depend on the acoustics in several ways. Harbor defense systems detect intruders (people and/or vessels) by either listening for their noises (passively) or by pinging on them and detecting their echoes (actively). Furthermore, such systems may also form the equivalent of an underwater cell phone network using sound to carry the information. The acoustic channel may be used to control the underwater system or to provide information back to a shore-based site. For instance, the RFP mentions a Phase III transition to the Advanced Undersea Weapons System in which mines are controlled through an acoustic comms network.Acoustic models allow one to predict system performance and then optimize system parameters, such as the location of sonar transmitters and receivers. This project will lead to mature propagation and reverberation models for that application.

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