White River Technologies Inc — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N141-010

Description

The Navy is currently integrating new highly sensitive magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) sensors on small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for maritime surveillance. White River Technologies, Inc. (WRT) in collaboration with teammates from Sensintel Inc. and Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS) propose development of a comprehensive MAD simulation tool that accurately considers a wide array of sensor, environmental, flight system, and mission-level parameters. The team will utilize our extensive experience in airborne magnetometry, UAV magnetic noise estimation, and probabilistic MAD simulation to develop the proposed software. The simulation tool will (1) take advantage of the available information on MAD mission factors, (2) utilize modeling and simulation capability to predict MAD effectiveness, and (3) leverage the power of current computing resources to integrate the multiple system, environmental, and target parameters for effective mission planning and tactical awareness. At the heart of the software are modeling and simulation modules that accurately account for the errors associated with numerous inputs in order to output useful predictive metrics of probabilistic success. This tool may be used pre-flight for predictive analysis and ASW system-level parameter delineation, for training operators, or for optimizing mission configurations.