GROUP W INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: N101-004

Description

Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) is a complex problem space, involving the diverse environments of air, surface and subsurface, dissimilar systems and competitive and cooperative behaviors to promote search and avoid detection. In 2009, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) lacked an appropriate simulation for directly analyzing the issues associated with air-prosecuted ASW in a coherent manner across the complete kill chain. SBIR Topic N101-004, Air Anti-Submarine Warfare Modeling and Simulation Tool, was sponsored by NAVAIR in support of PMA-264, High Altitude ASW, and PMA-290, Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance. The topic's objective was to develop a stochastic simulation that evaluates all phases of the Air ASW mission, at engagement-level fidelity. Awarded a SBIR Phase I contract in 2010, Group W documented a set of use cases for such a simulationJaegerdefining requirements for its implementation in software and producing a roadmap for development in a Phase II effort that would create a tool capable in its initial version of producing results useful to real-world studies. This SBIR Phase II effort builds on the previous work to produce appropriate acoustics representations for use within Jaeger and validate Jaeger results through comparative testing.