Acoustic Counter Detection Tactical Decision Aid

In order to maintain acoustic advantage, submarine crews need to assess acoustic vulnerability for historical and planned tracks and own ship noisy evolutions. A TDA or TDAs that produce acoustic advantage and vulnerability overlays for the geographic plot are essential to this. Our Phase I effort will develop a MATLAB-based TDA tool engine that when provided with the required inputs (own ship, environment, adversary) outputs acoustic vulnerability as a probability density function including an estimate of uncertainty. To ensure the TDA or TDAs are best suited to the actual tasks users are trying to accomplish, the Kern Technology Group (KTG) team will apply Human Factors and Human Systems Integration (HSI) principles in their development. The Acoustic Vulnerability TDA proposed by the KTG team will provide an effective and intuitive interface between operators and the information necessary for decision making and task execution; KTG"s approach reduces information acquisition costs and improves decision quality in support of the"jobs to be done"in a given situation context. The target transition path is via the Submarine Advanced Processor Build (APB) process, executed by PEO IWS5A. The targeted build for transitioning the Acoustic Counter Detection TDA is APB-17.