Affordable Scalable Acoustic Panel Arrays

Our ability to maintain acoustic advantage is in large part dependent upon our ability to develop and deploy high performance, affordable acoustic arrays. The two most significant cost drivers in acoustic arrays are: (1) Determining the performance of the array sensor system in the real ocean environment, and (2) monitoring, maintenance and repair of the array over its deployed life cycle. ASSETTs proposed solution, the Acoustic Array Assessment Tool (AAAT) addresses both of these cost drivers. To address performance, AAAT provides the ability to accurately simulate directional ocean noise using Reverse Far-Field Processing (RFFP). To address monitoring, maintenance and repair costs, AAAT provides the ability to create virtual sensors to replace failed sensors through multi-dimensional interpolation thus reducing or eliminating the need to dry-dock and replace failed sensors. AAAT provides the Navy with the ability to fully measure and test a sonar systems performance prior to developing an Engineering Development Model (EDM) or performing sea trials