Collaborative Undersea Warfare Mission Planning for Manned and Unmanned Vehicles

The proposed work will address the core physics underlying acoustic reverberation as related to properties of the ocean environment and properties of the acoustic sources, receivers and waveforms that make up ocean-going acoustic systems of interest to the U.S. Navy. Present day active acoustic system performance models, which contain reverberation models as an essential component, are over twenty years old. At the same time, new applications for models come with new requirements as to their faithfulness to physics and execution speed. In this work OASIS will build and deliver a multi-static active performance prediction model that incorporates these new algorithms. The requirements for the model are both speed and fidelity. In addition to multi-static active, passive and radio-frequency (RF) anti-submarine warfare performance prediction will be built.