Collaborative Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Mission Evaluation and Optimization (CAMEO)

The Collaborative Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Mission Evaluation and Optimization (CAMEO) project will significantly improve the effectiveness of multi-platform, multi-sortie, multi-sensor airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and Surface Warfare (SUW), optimizing the use of these air assets, filling in ASW/SUW search and surveillance gaps, and avoiding mission redundancy. CAMEO will provide intuitive tactical and environmental displays and accurate, quantitative evaluation and optimization algorithms that minimize operator task loading, exploit available environmental and sensor performance information, and take advantage of any available information concerning target vulnerabilities, depth and speed patterns, and evasion tactics.In particular, CAMEO will provide an application for JMPS (and potentially other mission planning/execution systems) that jointly optimizes multiple ASW and SUW sorties by airborne systems over short or long time periods through an intuitive user interface: (1) Utilizing all available synergistic acoustic and non-acoustic, active and passive sensors, (2) Against one or more threat targets of interest (weighted for importance), (3) Accounting for all relevant environmental, friendly platform/sensor, and threat target factors, (4) Accounting for previously conducted and/or scheduled searches, (5) Recommending detailed optimized sorties and/or recommending optimized areas in which individual sorties can be optimized in detail.