VASA ASSOCIATES INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N171-080

VASA ASSOCIATES INC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$125,000
Agency
Department of Defense · Navy
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
N171-080
Solicitation
2017.1
NAICS
Place of performance
VA
Period
2017-06-01 → 2017-12-01

Description

The dimensionality of the underwater target scattering problem has always been an issue in trading the fidelity versus computational complexity and the trade off is not a trivial issue. The advances made in hardware and the drop in their cost combined with efficient algorithms provided an opportunity to extend the application of high fidelity models to realistic targets and thus improve the detection and classification of underwater targets with an impact on ASW operations and training. In this study, we propose a high fidelity model based on Virtual Source Concept (VSC) and a fast algorithm based on machine/supervised learning that is several orders of magnitude faster than deterministic calculations and more relevant to real world problems