DANIEL H WAGNER ASSOCIATES INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N161-015

Description

In this SBIR project Daniel H. Wagner Associates (DHWA), with DDL OMNI as a subcontractor, will develop a Collaborative Airborne ASW Mission Evaluation and Optimization (CAMEO) system that will automatically:<br>(1)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'></span>Accurately estimate the current and future 3-dimensional (3-D) location of a threat submarine Target of Interest (TOI) taking into account all available information, e.g.: positive (sensor or intelligence reports), negative (effective searches not detecting the TOI) and target motion (including depth changes and periscope/mast exposures).<br>(2)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'></span>Recommend militarily effective, executable, jointly optimized, and integrated airborne ASW plans utilizing all available and relevant assets and their synergistic acoustic and non-acoustic, passive and active sensors, against one or more threat targets of interest (weighted for importance), that account for all relevant factors.<br>(3)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'></span>Quantitatively determine mission effectiveness of plan using operationally relevant metrics.<br>(4)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'></span>Monitor the tactical situation and environmental conditions in real-time, and alert the operator and automatically recommend a new jointly optimized and integrated airborne ASW plan if either the tactical situation or environmental conditions change significantly.